There have been some worlds released recently in the past few months which begin with extremely high visitor and fav count gains right out the gate that seem unrealistic given multiple factors: VRC's actual traffic, the (subjective) quality of content in the world and an absence of publicly-visible outside promotion.

Usually when a creator is trying to aggressively convince thousands and thousands of VRC players to visit and fav something within the space of 12 hours, they (or somebody) has made some mention of it on outside social media (as opposed to having completely silent accounts with no activity in months).

Of course, this itself is not proof of bots or other adversarial promotion techniques. There's many other possible explanations.

However, given the generally poor quality on display in these suspicious worlds, this does have an impact on other world devs who actually work hard to learn the skills, make connections and promote their work, or just want to make some fun stuff and get seen. Only to achieve a degree of success which is still several orders of magnitude less than one of these strangely sparse, inexplicably successful spam worlds which somehow instantly has like a quarter of the traffic of The Great Pug after just 12 hours after release somehow. Again, there's other possible explanations besides "Bots", and this is something very hard to get receipts for from the User's side, so all I can do is speculate.

While it is certainly possible that someone can indeed convince literally thousands of definitely real, registered, and bona-fide VRChat users to all visit and favorite just about anything, in just about any interval of time, what I'm asking for here is to apply a bit of sense to this situation and not to act with a heavy hand, but to act with a precise one. This is not common /yet/.

There are very few users with such total disregard for other users on this platform to engage in overt, bot-based hyperpromotion, you don't have to look hard, but you have to look, or else this behavior will become the rule, and not the exception.