Since teshub has been living under a rock let’s introduce him to : https://kpop.daisuki.com.br/promoted_mvs.html
Can’t blv there are people that don’t know this exists when screen shots from this website was used as proof left and right every single day 🤣🤣🤣
You make sense. My point doesn't really apply starting from the corona era, but 2019 and earlier. I also assumed even BTS did ads in the past until they no longer needed it.