Cheap Instagram Views and Costly Identity: Building a Brand in Public View Or Buying It
You begin with a silent reel. The coffee’s steaming, the light is perfect, and the only thing missing is an audience. It takes 13 views before the first heart arrives. Then five more views. Nothing. Then 20. You refresh. You wait. This, you realize, is not about content. It’s about traction—those early signals that tell…
