Each note takes the claims people keep repeating, traces them to the earliest public source, and says plainly what could not be verified. No figure here is invented for a better story.
Three 2024+ cold-start stories survived the filter. None has a revenue figure that reaches a second source — and the two that look strongest are the ones with the holes.
The phrase hides a distribution cost that is not advertising: a content matrix run by hand. Here is what one indexed case actually did, and how to spot it before you copy it.