Access is tiered and priced
Observed membership tiers and gift prices. RMB values appear only where the iOS top-up equivalent was verified.
One front-stage creator, several back-stage structures
Filter the purposive public-account sample by follower scale and visible organizational form.
The switch
Observable display shift in the focal archived segment; no inference about private feeling.
How attention becomes an order
Observed public-to-private routes across the sample.
Audience scale does not map cleanly onto displayed membership
Log-log scatter using accounts with both public follower counts and displayed membership joins. Displayed joins may be cumulative.