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That's exactly what the focus should be. It may be naive in a modern context where everyone is addicted to "number go up," but it's the only way to get an authentic, not manufactured culture.

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Hardly. If the top ranked ones were always the most creative, honest and there-for-the-art creators and artists, we wouldn’t have the Taylor Swifts of the world along with the tidal wave of fast-food content diarrhoea we currently have to suffer through just by opening a web browser.

Truth is: “number go up” is the only valid strategy for growing because that’s what favours the platforms the most.

Unfortunate. Depressing.

It might be a valid strategy for "growing", but "growing" is not necessarily the goal of all creators in any medium, certainly not in the sense that you mean it.

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