Falsifying viewership to con investors

Hello, I am a singer-songwriter, that uses periscope to broaden my Fanbase.

I noticed that when people are actually listening to me, I have a lot of positive response, lots of heart tape and lots of comments however lately, I have a feeling this is done intentionally, once I have 30 or 40 people, nobody says a peep. I tell people please say something if you are here, and maybe one person replies out of 40.

If I do a Facebook live video, Im getting comments from only five people, here from 40 people not a peep?

Maybe this is a bug, when people leave the room, for some reason they dont get taken off as a person in the bottom right corner, or perhaps this is intentional to have investors think "wow live broadcasts here are 4x longer than facebook live or busker or whatever else competition.

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