The porn thing is sus lol. or it seemed sus, I think on X or other places, someone would drown out critical hashtags with pornbots. I think now the government understands that the play is to empower a bunch of TikTokers with well-established followings to make videos etc. but who knows who is really doing all these things. Maybe it is just some SEO-junkie lol and my conspiracy hivemind needs to simplify.

I used to think that the brigading of politically sensitive posts must only be coordinated by paid actors (the colloquial term is 五毛) because how could anyone with a shred of decency actively ruin public discourse. (I.e. HK protests 2019) .... But the fact is indecent people use the internet too and outrage marketing is lucrative 🫠 When the state gets involved, they explicitly make their presence known with violence, follower counts don't mean much when they can just wipe people from existence (digitally or physically). Consider Jack Ma