Paid shills happen everywhere, not just in crypto, literally you have to promote your project/product by paying someone with an audience, it works everywhere, but interestingly, in crypto, its viewed pretty bad.

If a project spends money on adverting and marketing, its usually looked as a "bad" project.

I don't understand this mentality.

Tech doesn't usually bring users or adoption, only marketing does. You've seen it happen everywhere, hype+marketing is the key to a project success in the short term, now, whether that project lasts to long-term its usually due to the project/tech.

So, how do you see project marketing across social media or other places?