engage maxxing
The relentless pursuit of peak engagement metrics across every platform — stacking posting times, reply baiting, cross-posting across channels, and engineering every piece of content for maximum algorithmic reward.
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The relentless pursuit of peak engagement metrics across every platform — stacking posting times, reply baiting, cross-posting across channels, and engineering every piece of content for maximum algorithmic reward. Engage-maxxers treat the attention economy like a competitive sport and their own audience like a resource to be optimized rather than a community to be nurtured. The term carries enough irony to acknowledge the exhaustion built into the strategy, and enough accuracy to sting anyone who recognizes themselves in it.
He's been engage-maxxing so hard this month that every post is just a question designed to force replies.
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