What do you all think of the columns by Ueno, the love hotel staff member?
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He posts a column every time in response to questions on this site, so I asked a staff member, “Is this kind of article really okay?” They replied, “He’s an influencer, and the club has asked him to write for us...” ← It’s okay for me to mention that, right? It’s just part of their promotion, so there’s nothing wrong with it.
That would be fine if that were all, but the views on his columns suddenly shoot up on certain days. This happens several times a year, with 6,000 or even 9,000 views added in a single day.
Is that really normal exposure through social media?
I can’t help wondering whether he’s manipulating the numbers to make himself look like an influencer. Am I misunderstanding how this works?
It’s been bothering me, so I’d appreciate someone’s thoughts. Please point it out if my understanding is incorrect.
—Mac, one of the respondents
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“Ueno from the Love Hotel” has been well known for quite a long time—possibly even before the term papa-katsu (compensated dating in Japan) came into use—so naturally it would bring in traffic through views...
That said, I hardly ever use love hotels myself (lol).
If you’re skeptical, wouldn’t it make sense to check how much the other posts by the same author—and posts by other authors—have increased when one particular entry suddenly gets an extreme spike in views?
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You can buy likes, and apparently Instagram manipulates them in the first place, too.
At least, that’s what it said in *The Smartphone Brain*.
There are tons of influencers, but Ueno, the love hotel staffer, isn’t doing any harm, so I don’t really mind him.
He’s not exactly helpful, either, though…
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Is it easy to manipulate view counts?
Apparently, you can buy likes on Instagram too. It makes me wonder whether people really want more likes badly enough to pay for them.
I’m a Showa-era person, but maybe there are keywords that can make something go viral.
I once thought about writing a column too, but I type furiously on my PC during meetings and my nails hurt, so I don’t want to touch a computer once I get home...
I do have some interesting stories—there are even some ghost stories about love hotels—but...
Everyone probably prefers the naughtier stories, right? ♡♡♡
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A little late to the party, but…
I’ve thought the same thing.
They’re not involved in papa-katsu (compensated dating in Japan), and they haven’t even been in a love hotel room with someone who actually uses the service. (Unless, of course, there really are cameras in the room.) So how can someone who isn’t directly involved say anything about papa-katsu…? I just assume they’re writing articles based on speculation mixed with their own completely unsupported opinions.
Well, if all that matters is becoming an influencer and making money, then I guess whether it’s interesting or factual doesn’t really matter… And if the content helps increase the chances of that influencer attracting female or male members—their media exposure, basically—then maybe the content itself isn’t important. In that sense, I suppose supply and demand are actually lining up…
As for writing articles based on questions from a question box, I think it’s probably because they’ve run out of material. They could just answer the questions themselves, but since that wouldn’t make them any money, the points I mentioned earlier would start to make sense too, haha.
I might try it myself when I run out of material, lol. Though nobody would read it then… Maybe I should’ve become an influencer too. (Not saying I could have pulled it off.)
I guess a love hotel alone doesn’t provide that much material about papa-katsu. So I always feel like I’m looking down into a well, watching a frog in a well jump around trying to see the ocean.
Though I’m also living in a washbasin, so maybe the “well” is simply what they happened to see when they jumped.
This is just my personal theory, and I realize it’s basically a boomerang—I’m talking about that person in the same way I criticize someone who only works at a love hotel talking about papa-katsu.
Ahahahaha.
That was my completely unsupported personal speculation.
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Honestly, I don’t really have an opinion either way.
I see social media and web views as nothing more than figures marketers use to secure budgets, so I don’t particularly care about numbers that exist for the sake of business.
As for the content, more readers tend to gravitate toward shallow material rather than deep material, and if you pursue a subject too far, it inevitably becomes niche, doesn’t it?
People I know in the publishing industry often lament, “It’s disappointing as someone in the industry that books with less substance sell better, but we make them because it’s business.”
Apparently, even specialized books with dense, difficult content don’t sell these days. For more than a decade now, the times have favored what’s instant and casual.
Come to think of it, from the perspective of a mistress, our own allowance-based relationships must seem pretty instant and casual too.
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I didn’t find it interesting, so I read a few and haven’t looked at them since. It didn’t really bother me.
It is strange, though, that you don’t find it interesting.
Sorry I couldn’t give you an answer that solves the problem.
Marika
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Lately, things have been pretty stable with my papa-katsu activities, so I haven’t really been checking the columns（笑）
But when there are more and more column posts, there are only so many topics left to cover, so I guess that’s just the way it is（笑）
> The view count suddenly shoots up one day.
I’m not really sure why, but maybe they’re using some kind of trick（笑）
Personally, I feel that dating arrangements are supposed to be kept low-key and discreet, and I don’t think there’s usually anything particularly noteworthy to write about anyway, so I don’t pay much attention to the view count.
More than that, I just hope the number of people overreacting to the articles doesn’t increase...
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I’d known about him from Twitter even before he started appearing as a columnist, so I watched him with a “Oh, it’s Ueno!” kind of feeling.
It’s interesting how he introduces love hotels from all over Japan. Oh, and it’s been made into a TV drama, too.
When you look at his Twitter account, the posts from his anonymous question box—the Twitter version of this site—get a considerable number of retweets and likes. The view counts are also in the tens or even hundreds of thousands, so I don’t think it’s necessarily unnatural for the number of views here to increase by a few thousand at a time.
Maybe the numbers jump when it’s linked with other social media platforms!
Mac’s columns might go viral too, but on Twitter, I feel like people would quickly figure out who he is… lol
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Ah, I see—you were saying that the real question was whether those numbers can be trusted in the first place. Sorry about that.
>>So, in a nutshell: “If you know so much about love hotels, then write about the inside scoop on love hotels. Don’t casually publish articles by pretending to know what you’re talking about and answering papa-katsu questions. Who do you think you are?”
Since it sounds like he’s writing the columns at the club’s request, maybe the club is the one that should be questioned:
“Why are you asking someone who presumably doesn’t even do papa-katsu to answer these questions?”
Though I suppose the response would be, “Well, it’s marketing…”
If things are kept too closed off, nothing changes and it gets boring, but if they’re made too open, it just leads to chaos. Finding the right balance is pretty difficult. (汗)
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I’m not sure who they are, but when I look at what appears to be their Twitter account now, they have 370,000 followers. So perhaps 1–2% of those people clicked when it was shared there.
Apparently, they were already receiving a lot of inquiries.
I assume this is probably within the scope that Mac had already looked into.
Does that 1–2% response rate seem low to Ueno?
Also, I imagine that the percentage of people who join a club is far below 1% of the general population. It’s understandable that only a small number of people are interested.
And because interest is that limited—that is, because so few people actually do it—we can say that we’re able to operate with peace of mind as well.
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