Audience embedding

The model a platform holds of who your content is for, assembled from who engages with it.

It is durable in a way an individual view is not. A follower who never watches is a permanent edge in that model, which is the reason PodSwap does not run a follow exchange on TikTok.

The practical consequence: the damage from off-target attention is not a penalty, it is an accurate delivery to the wrong people, repeated.