Popular men’s fashion and accessory magazine Cigar Aficionado has reported that the total views of its 2017 interview with Michael Jordan have broken the seven million view mark. Making it the most popular video in the magazine’s history.
That’s a lot of views. To break it down, we are looking at six years since the story was published. That works out to 1.17 million views a year, or just over three thousand views a day. How is that possible? We here at CNT asked, so we started doing some rooting around.
CNT unleashed our crack team of internet researchers to peek behind the HTTPS curtains. Most of the views were recent views, coinciding with the shuttering of bitcoin mining farms in China. Although bitcoin mining is dead in China, all that computing power is available and utilized to drive up your social network views.
Will this be a new trend in social media? If so, will it devalue all other social media accounts that do not have the capital to pay for the Chinese click farms? Will social media become not the voice of the people but yet another place for the wealthy to review umbrellas, Umbrellas | Cigar Aficionado.
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