Exactly. To be specific, platforms like youtube want to know if you're a creator or a lurker; if you're never going to make anything anyway its fine to show you less overvalued stuff.

What would you show a new user, who potentially is a high quality bass player? Would you show the best bass player ever? Or would you show them a mediocre bass player with 10 million followers?

On twitter everyone (pretty much) is a potential creator, it's not hard to tweet. They can troll more than youtube.

I'm not sure it's the end of hope for humanity though, like all strategies it's just something to be aware of. You can beat a troll simply by not feeding it. You can get food by being a troll.

A particularly insidious example is OnlyFans. Many people (myself included, for a long time) carry the idea around that if you're a hot girl, you can easily get rich on onlyfans. That's what they want you believe. But try it, sell your fresh bananas, and it's not so easy. And then, well. "Whats wrong with me?". Nothing, your bananas are just fine. It's just a troll.