Following the topic (slightly off but connected) about likes and thanks. I remember years ago (around 18 or so) being on a review website where you could earn points to convert to money to cash up simply by writing reviews (of any product or service) and the more thanks you received from other users the more points, the more money so there were ‘clicking circles’ whereby people were basically accumulating as many followers who would like their reviews. I heard some people made quite a bit of money this way, in fact looking back it was similar to influencers which happened on tik tok and instagram later on, almost like a prototype.
It’s a funny old world!