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KOLs & promotion

Paid promotion · 10 Jul 2026

I understand that attention has value, that reach takes work, and that not everyone can spend years online without getting anything back.

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I understand that many people here are trying to monetize their accounts for paid shills.

I understand that attention has value, that reach takes work, and that not everyone can spend years online without getting anything back.

But.

When you promote scamcoins, gambling, casinos, high-risk platforms, paid hype, or anything designed to extract from the same people who trust your account, you are lending your name, your reputation, and your audience’s trust to that machine.

People do not click because they trust the casino.

They click because they trust you.

The platform pays for access to your credibility, not because it suddenly cares about your community.

I am not saying everyone who promotes something bad is a bad person.

Not at all.

Some people are broke. Some are tired. Some are naive.

Some tell themselves it is just marketing, just one post, just another partnership, just how the game works now.

But if you believe in karma, even a little bit, you should think very carefully about what you send your audience into.

Money earned by pushing people toward machines built to drain them may look good for a moment.....

How do you see it?

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