Blogger showdowns: traffic-botting accusations and a $5,000 bet
A noisy conflict has broken out between bloggers in poker Telegram channels. Polina Mashina ("garazh mashiny") hinted on a podcast that Liza ("Liza plays poker") and Vika (Viktoriia Sha) are inflating their view counts and attracting irrelevant English-Brazilian traffic, pointing to videos with 300k+ views and only 80-100 likes.
The response from her opponents came quickly: Viktoriia offered Polina a $5,000 bet, ready to bring in managers and fully demonstrate the statistics, explaining that the videos had been temporarily taken down because of third-party logos and had long since returned to the channel. Liza added that at their volumes of 20 million views per month, traffic naturally goes viral, but the bulk of the audience still comes from Russia. The girls also noted that they are at a series in Georgia and were ready to show the analytics from their phones in person, although Polina's side claimed that no direct invitation to meet was ever extended.
The situation was aggravated by a mass purge of comments and bans in Polina's chat, which deprived her opponents of the chance to respond directly. In the end, the conflict turned into the standard online exchange of accusations about slander and avoiding open dialogue.
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The response from her opponents came quickly: Viktoriia offered Polina a $5,000 bet, ready to bring in managers and fully demonstrate the statistics, explaining that the videos had been temporarily taken down because of third-party logos and had long since returned to the channel. Liza added that at their volumes of 20 million views per month, traffic naturally goes viral, but the bulk of the audience still comes from Russia. The girls also noted that they are at a series in Georgia and were ready to show the analytics from their phones in person, although Polina's side claimed that no direct invitation to meet was ever extended.
The situation was aggravated by a mass purge of comments and bans in Polina's chat, which deprived her opponents of the chance to respond directly. In the end, the conflict turned into the standard online exchange of accusations about slander and avoiding open dialogue.
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