The marketing tactics in this circle are truly endless. Liking, browsing, commenting, sharing—all in a one-stop service. Some people are just determined to do it this way. The first thing they do when they wake up each day isn't thinking about how to improve the project, but rather how to mess with others, how to lure investors with fake data.

The most outrageous is still the invitation-only scheme used by some projects. For example, inviting 70 contestants to participate, then turning around and saying they want to scam 10,000 yuan? Is that logical? Do the invited people lack that pocket money? Clearly, it's just for hype and creating buzz. This trick has been used over and over, with no new ideas at all. Frankly, it's just exploiting information asymmetry and FOMO psychology to collect IQ taxes. Such an project ecosystem indeed makes people feel somewhat powerless.