I tricked 3M people into believing in an evil fake polycule

one of my questions is "why did the tinyURL go through a viglink before it hit Notion"? (https://tinyurl.com/preview/join-polycule)

was this also some weird half-hearted attempt at monetization? or does tinyurl just slip their own viglink into a Notion link passed through the platform?

when someone first sent me this whole story my first and most giant red flag was trying to go to the link and having my adblock go "are you sure about this?".