>>79055882If the sub increase doesn't translate to sustained growth and/or ccv increase there isn't much difference, at least functionally, between botting subs and using ads. Kawaii wasn't using bots but the result is the same for channels who didn't capitalize: bump in subs and nothing else.
I said this way back when it was happening, management simply "botted" their subs to get them close to their sub milestone outfit. The most blatant example was Nami who got a bump but went back to stalling soon after, coincidentally her new outfit entered development hell around the same time, so she doesn't need 50k to come anytime soon. Shee consistent streaming combined with whatever ad campaign they were using gave her a real bump that is still going to this day.
