Or you could just buy $DOT like we all do with our own money and support the ecosystem rather than look to extract money from it in an effort to grow your own social accounts.

PS: The metrics (e.g., views/members/etc) that you provided are so tiny that many individual contributors on Twitter/X get more engagement without asking for community funding.

With the passing of referendum 1166, Marketing Bounty 2.0 https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/1166, all marketing and outreach referenda must be proposed to the Marketing Bounty as approving additional marketing and outreach referenda will increase that 10% treasury income significantly.
Our recommendation is for all marketing and outreach referenda to be submitted the Marketing Bounty exclusively.