I'm in two minds about buying followers and likes etc. It's not organic and at first appears scummy but perhaps we have to change our mindset and see it as just a modern form of promotion and advertising
It's a way for all forms of business to create traction and get eye on their product. Depends on the goal of course but advertising has been around in some forms forever.here on Hive we can promote posts of course to gain followers.
Don't be disheartened and don't worry what others are doing, enjoy the way you do things and keep going at something you love.
Take care and well done for using Hive to vent. This is what decentralised, censorship resistant social media is for!
Best wishes.
Thankyou for reading my blog nathan, really means a lot that people have taken the time and really given it some thought and helped me with my udnerstanding and thinking too. I still dont know why people who buy followers take the short cut to fame, it WILL bite them when they are booked for a big show and none of these 'followers' turn up because theyre not real. Short lived glory for instant dopamine I think.
But I wont be disheartened. As I mentioned in an earlier reply I took some time out to reflect on my state of mine and am feeling alot better with the support of you awesome people on HIVE and friends in real life over a cup of tea. We all have our dark days where we doubt our very fabric, but its a relief to come out the other side.
Stay safe