Marco Svarda here. Thanks for asking all these questions, and the free advertisement as well. Maybe if you would be active outside your little community on Discord, you would have known why my playlist dissapeared.

I have been running FB-ads since last year continously, mainly to keep up with dodgy guys like yourself. Nothing shady about it, as it’s all-in the open and you can even find which page advertises and which not. Asked the team in the early Telegram days if it was legal, and they even encouraged it. Never been warned for it, because I did my due diligence to check first.

Because no one else, except me and Beat16, ran ads continuously, we decided to take them off for a bit now, as it would indeed look unhealthy if the chart would display as the one you posted in your blog. After the unlock, at least MC Frosty and Mashypie decided to run an ad, as they now get value for money, without any ‘scam tax’. Ever since the removal of scammers, the Streaming for Mining went up from 30 to 70 NOTES per minute (lowest point ever was 7). So all the scammers together were responsible for taking at least 50% of the daily NOTES supply.

You're still pretending everywhere that what you did was for the community and the support of the Choon platform. While you never promoted Choon anywhere but in your own Discord group. Consisting the same group of artists sharing your playlist (not anything Choon!) on all other websites you mention. To get that same group of artists to stream your playlist on a regular daily basis. So much for your contribution to the growth of Choon, as there was none. It was just a bunch of artists streaming their own music, day in, day out...

FYI, ads target real human beings. Not bots. With the right targetting you can add fans for life. As South America is a region where my style of music is upcoming and popular, I advertised there. And I don’t have any stats, but I am pretty sure that the amount of South American users/listeners have increased a lot over the past year. But there is no need to sign up for Choon. My listeners are fans, not artists. My listeners come back if they like what they hear, but you can only follow a playlist if you are a signed up user. 60% of signed up users are artists. Which explains directly why your playlist had followers and mine did not. At least, not in terms of Choon users. My playlist ad got shared 55 times, and had 310 likes, in 4 months, also got a lot of cross-likes on my page, and those people really follow along and interact. It’s called, investment. Ads help growing the platform. at least in listeners. Streaming your own shit doesn’t.

Unfair competition? You could’ve stopped being a greedy whiner and spend some money yourself. In the time you wrote all your frustrations everywhere, you could have done some nice artwork and a bit of reading how ads can help you grow your audience. You chose not to.

What’s questionable is, that guys like you did far higher rates on a daily basis, than guys with ads, while you weren’t spending a dime. I never heard of you before Choon, and hearing your ‘music’ I’m not very surprised either. You were an unknown artist on a new and unknown platform, and yet you outperformed artists like Gareth Emery, Guy J. and Darude, who actually have a name in the scene and a decent fanbase already. How? I can show statements of any day I advertised. What can you show to justify your streams? Discord posts? The shares on socials by all artists involved in your playlist? Wow, massive.

This post also shows that you never been a real supporter of Choon, as you seem to be outraged about everything since the cancelled ICO already. Choon gave very reasonable explanations for their decisions, yet you only highlight the state of the market... You withdrew your NOTES because you knew you were gaming the system, and eventually would get caught. I even warned you, but you preferred to ridicul it, instead of taking it as advice. And now you are bitter and angry that you got caught, and decide to get it all out on Choon, and 2 guys that actually spent money because they believe in a project from day 1. Which obviously cannot be said about you.

Enough of your complaints and false accusations. I should actually report you for harassment and spreading fake rumours. But I won’t. Because I probably won’t hear from you ever again. Good luck with your little crypto earnings, your organic fanbase, your talent for making noise and your inferiority complex. Good luck spamming other blockchain based music platforms with your dodgy playlist. I don't even care how you will try to twist this message again in a reply. I'm still on Choon after a fraud cleanup and you, Downward Spiral Mantra, is not. People can make up their own mind about what’s the most logical explanation...