Nicki Minaj’s social media propped up by thousands of bots, analysis finds

Mostly based on the premise that the majority of X is comprised of bots.

Well, it would be rather humiliating for those with rather fragile egos and being pushed by Hollywood or the music industry or RW influencers that they are "famous" and then have shit for numbers.

I'm pretty sure it's fairly easy to hire out botnets or things like Mechanical Turk to give you fake traffic/followers, etc...I would not be surprised at all to find that most celebrities have someone doing some kind of a SEO stuff for their "brand".

Label companies have to keep their investments relevant