Honestly, I’ll never understand people who say we could potentially be “100% cooked.”
To me, this is just a rough period where everyone has to adapt and use the best possible methods.
If you look at Reddit, real users with genuinely high-quality accounts and normal activity are still able to mention, recommend, or occasionally promote products. Reddit is obviously never going to ban every user who recommends a product. So what exactly would make us “completely cooked”?
From my testing, the biggest change is that commenting with accounts that don’t have a strong CGS seems much harder now, especially in communities that are commonly targeted for promotion.
That’s also why I think buying promotional comments is basically dead. Most sellers have already used those accounts for too much promotional activity, so the accounts themselves have very little trust left.
The way forward seems to be building genuinely niche accounts with real activity, history, and authority inside specific communities. Account age alone doesn’t seem nearly as important anymore.