>They steer views to foreign countries where no one is likely to buy your music or follow you
Worst case scenario. Best case scenario, your advertising reaches local folks and your business does well... Which makes your main source of revenue instagram, further entrenching you into the page-on-platform-as-a-business model, which makes the internet a slightly less accessible, anonymous, fun place.
See: forums/IRC replaced by discord servers, facebook businesses, record deals hinging on tiktok views, etc
Worst case scenario. Best case scenario, your advertising reaches local folks and your business does well... Which makes your main source of revenue instagram, further entrenching you into the page-on-platform-as-a-business model, which makes the internet a slightly less accessible, anonymous, fun place.
See: forums/IRC replaced by discord servers, facebook businesses, record deals hinging on tiktok views, etc