I think it was a convergence of Jerry Banfield and such promoting it through YouTube and the proliferation of vote buying/vote selling fueling a rush to create spam for cash.
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I think it was a convergence of Jerry Banfield and such promoting it through YouTube and the proliferation of vote buying/vote selling fueling a rush to create spam for cash.
Seems plausible, the numbers would be inflated by users coming in through those YT promoters. And then after the bid bots were killed off in HF21 the profit seekers would flock elsewhere.