Mutual fans are the same platform. In order to increase activity and increase the exposure of articles or videos, authors follow each other, like, comment, forward, etc.

I am new to Toutiao. I have only joined Toutiao and Xigua for about half a month, but I have 3,000 fans. But I don’t try to flatter myself either. It’s not that my articles are good or my videos are interesting, which attracts many fans, but I find that there are many circles in Toutiao, and you can actually make friends and follow each other. Basically, I will post it every day. The limit is exhausted. It's just that I came in late. If it had been two days earlier, I might have been able to create an original work, haha, I feel a little sad. . .

What are the pros and cons of mutual fans?

1. Let’s talk about the disadvantages first. I’ve seen a lot of complaints about mutual fans, for the following reasons:

Most of the friends who are mutual fans don’t click on videos or articles to read them. Just like or comment, the result is that the number of recommendations is large, but the number of reading or playing is small. There are even situations where the reading or playing is 0, but there are more than ten or twenty likes. Toutiao's income or evaluation of whether a work is of high quality is based on the number of reads and plays, so the gain outweighs the loss. In addition, it is said that the Toutiao robot will judge cheating based on the above data, limit the flow of relevant accounts, and reduce the number of recommendations. If this is true, it will lose the meaning of mutual fans, and it will also harm others and ourselves.

2. Next, let’s talk about the benefits of mutual fans. There is no doubt that I am definitely leaning towards mutual fans. The reasons are as follows: the entire platform should be equal, and authors and readers cannot be in opposition. Why can readers pay attention? Like, comment, and forward the author's work, but these things can't be done between authors? On the contrary, the author should stand at a higher level and get in touch with more authors in different fields in order to write works that readers can't put down. This is one of them.

Second, how can the platform judge whether everyone has read or played each other? Is it really like what some authors write at the beginning of each article: This article is 3,200 words long and takes 26 minutes to read. Does it count as reading and playing if it reaches the time limit? If that's the case, I'll just say: bullshit!