I don't trust the viewership statistics on the official website.
I don't believe that the episode "Mom's Help – Part 80," published two days ago, has fewer views than the recently published episode "Suky-Tu – Part 03."
There's some kind of view manipulation going on.
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It's Been manipulative for awhile now, or at least it seems that way. Pigking reps would come on here, give the song and dance about how they're losing money to sites like these. At one point, they'd convinced people to stop posting content altogether. When myself and others challenged that what they were doing was manipulation, they became accusatory and hostile. I called them on their bs. I said that, from a finacial standpoint, they Couldn't be losing money. Between having Specialized subscriptions of a minimum 60 USD, controlling & limiting even Paid content, Plus putting out a new title seemingly every quarter, while having over 80 titles, a number of which were incomplete due to "increased workloads", that they couldn't Possibly be losing money. Even if you're not an economics major, Common Sense tells you that, if you're losing money you'd A) consolidate your business, meaning that you'd be abandoning many titles for only the most popular And Profitable ones (which is what many Other businesses Do when facing financial hardships. Why do you think that so many business with multiple products/stores/ventures close/discontinue a number of franchises or products?) and B) if you'e Losing money, there'd be No Way you'd be hiring additional people because 'your workload increased'. The last part, right There, tells you that business is booming unless you have the reading comprehensive skills of a 3rd grader or you can't add 2+2=4 or 1+3=4!!
Nah, those of us with common Business sense knows manipilation when we see/hear it and the Fallback Typical of those types when they've lost the common sense battle or called out for being deceptive, is to go silent, withhold a product for a time to drive up demand/popularity, then dole out the product in bits or in this case, give you a 10 panel preview of random story renders. It's how they plan to win and show the customers that They're smarter than their consumers. Trying to change points of view of a product by good or bad coersion, bullying and/or withholding or lengthily delaying and in a couple of cases, skipping some chapters for public comsumption, said machinations ARE manipulation, no matterr How you cut it. A lot of people like to be led like sheep. It's why the term 'Herd Mentality" was created. I don't fall into that category. I was taught by family members to challenge Everything since I was 12 (and I'm pushing close to 70 now!) because, as I would later begin to find out that, a Lie is Nothing to tell where power and money is concerned.
P.S. THEY know that the stats are public. It's easy to change figures to suit your needs which is why you pay attention to everything, not just one or two. Obfuscation is the number one tactic of scammers. I know. As a former LE officer, I learned that crime statistics were altered for certain communities or towns to appear "Safe" while making other communities/towns appear a lot more dangerous than they Actually Were!