Very good probability of both of those things, although calling the number of bands "wild" makes me assume he had something like 1,000 of these bands. Definitely fraud in that case, although I applaud the effort.
I assume most of these music platforms have some sort of rules about how and when you can call one band different from another, to prevent artists from treating every song or album as a separate band to game the algorithm.
Regardless of how you feel about him, its one guy behind every band, making it deceitful for the purpose of financial gain which is the legal definition of fraud.
it's plausible but there's not a chance in hell he was making "millions" from it.
either way he was probably arrested for not paying taxes
Very good probability of both of those things, although calling the number of bands "wild" makes me assume he had something like 1,000 of these bands. Definitely fraud in that case, although I applaud the effort.
What exactly would the fraud be?
I assume most of these music platforms have some sort of rules about how and when you can call one band different from another, to prevent artists from treating every song or album as a separate band to game the algorithm.
Regardless of how you feel about him, its one guy behind every band, making it deceitful for the purpose of financial gain which is the legal definition of fraud.
How is that different from one songwriter being behind multiple meatbag bands? Either way it's one creator being marketed through several fronts.