Recently, you may have read about Spotify creating “fake” artists. The follow up to that was the discovery of fake Spotify streams - you can read a whole, long, anger-inducing article here. While paying for plays or likes is nothing new - Soundcloud never could seem to rein in the rampant bot plays and people have been paying for social media followers for years - it doesn’t make it a practice we should all be involved in. I know it’s tempting, but I’m here to scream DON’T DO IT! YOU ARE WASTING YOUR MONEY AND POTENTIALLY SABOTAGING YOUR NEW CAREER.