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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: Alex4rmNYC on August 05, 2019, 06:51:46 PM
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I’m just trying to get things clear here, I’m not trying call anyone out (although I can call out numerous accounts) but I’m noticing so many accounts that have fake followers. Big name brands that we would’ve never guessed, with a butt load of followers, but not the amount of likes or comments to back it up. I know it’s just the internet and why do I care...I don’t, but it’s kind of embarrassing when a brand that we grew up on has 100k followers and then like 400 likes. Idk. Just weird to me and was hoping someone could justify this for me or maybe I have the wrong idea of it all.
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There is a 100% chance that brands and individuals buy followers. All wrapped up in the marketing. Happens in all industries. Just sayin.
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You may be onto something
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Name names!
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this is SLAP...names should always be named. Who are you protecting?
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this is SLAP...names should always be named. Who are you protecting?
I didn’t want to name any names honestly because there’s too many to name. Slap won’t let me post a screenshot but CHOCOLATE for example. Almost 700k followers. I clicked on one picture from
June 20. 1028 likes and 2 comments. It’s sad. Lol
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I know of a few companies that have bought followers for their riders' Instagram accounts as well as the company's own Instagram account. First time I heard of a skateboard company doing this was in 2014. Seems to be a fairly common practice.
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I opened this thread expecting to see screenshots from Links, Pics, and Quotes, of proof that certain pro skaters and brands buying followers. I'm disappointed
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As an older skater I find it amusing that anyone would care about that sort of information... how many likes and followers people/brands have and such.
But, you do know that you can follow someone and not be obligated to 'like' all, or any, or their posts... right? I barely 'like' anything. I just keep scrolling.
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I opened this thread expecting to see screenshots from Links, Pics, and Quotes, of proof that certain pro skaters and brands buying followers. I'm disappointed
Exactly the same!
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I opened this thread expecting to see screenshots from Links, Pics, and Quotes, of proof that certain pro skaters and brands buying followers. I'm disappointed
Exactly the same!
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Quick google search led me to https://igaudit.io/ . I've never used it before, but seems like a fun experiment. Note, it doesn't prove or disprove if followers were bought, it just compares the data of 200 random accounts that follow the instagram account being tested.
Ran it on myself. I've never bought followers, but I've definitely had some obvious bot accounts follow me after hash tagging a city or a keyword. That happens to pretty much every Instagram account out there.
(https://i.imgur.com/WKuLZEf.png)
Since you brought up Chocolate
(https://i.imgur.com/w6y3q2w.png)
Kook Of the Day has a similar follower amount for comparison, but it also gets a lot more people commenting due to the nature of it.
(https://i.imgur.com/nlat4wb.png)
Then I just got curious (not trying to pick on any brand, just went for what came to my head):
(https://i.imgur.com/UeJGThO.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/XGRF5Zf.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/vUICMM3.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/S1eMERA.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/FLj6X77.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/u3zl2A1.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/zgAUHee.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/qIqp3l0.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/TRcL4Oh.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/qwPtEeP.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/p5GTuXH.png)
Anyways, you can dig deeper on that site and see more stats and how they determine whether an account is legit or not.
"IG Audit works by examining up to 200 random followers for the input user to estimate the user's follower authenticity. For each follower, our algorithm looks at the statistics above and more, and outputs a score between 0 and 1 (1 being real). We then average those probability scores across all 200 accounts examined to produce the final estimate. Follower reachability is one of the things our algorithm emphasizes - if a follower appears to be inactive or follow a high number of people, they tend to score proportionally lower, because your posts + stories have a much lower chance of actually reaching them. After auditing millions of users, we've also modeled the distributions for each of these statistics for different following sizes, and compare the input user's statistics to the expected values given their follower count."
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Quick google search led me to https://igaudit.io/ . I've never used it before, but seems like a fun experiment. Note, it doesn't prove or disprove if followers were bought, it just compares the data of 200 of the account's followers.
Ran it on myself. I've never bought followers, but I've definitely had some obvious bot accounts follow me after hash tagging a city or a keyword. That happens to pretty much every Instagram account out there.
(https://i.imgur.com/WKuLZEf.png)
Since you brought up Chocolate
(https://i.imgur.com/w6y3q2w.png)
Kook Of the Day has a similar follower amount for comparison, but it also gets a lot more people commenting due to the nature of it.
(https://i.imgur.com/nlat4wb.png)
Then I just got curious (not trying to pick on any brand, just went for what came to my head):
(https://i.imgur.com/UeJGThO.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/XGRF5Zf.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/vUICMM3.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/S1eMERA.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/FLj6X77.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/u3zl2A1.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/zgAUHee.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/qIqp3l0.png)
Anyways, you can dig deeper on that site and see more things.
"IG Audit works by examining up to 200 random followers for the input user to estimate the user's follower authenticity. For each follower, our algorithm looks at the statistics above and more, and outputs a score between 0 and 1 (1 being real). We then average those probability scores across all 200 accounts examined to produce the final estimate. Follower reachability is one of the things our algorithm emphasizes - if a follower appears to be inactive or follow a high number of people, they tend to score proportionally lower, because your posts + stories have a much lower chance of actually reaching them. After auditing millions of users, we've also modeled the distributions for each of these statistics for different following sizes, and compare the input user's statistics to the expected values given their follower count."
This is a terrific start! Gnar if I could but I need LPQ rooting into the companies marketing managers phones and screenshotting all the juice. My lizard brain craves it! We need a batsignal for that dude.
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hahahahahaha most of skateboarding is a lie, statistically proven.
a lot of skateboarders figured out early on in instagram to just like every photo with the the hashtag skateboarding to get followers. do it to a photo now and i guarantee greg lutzka and mike mo will like it. this is how irrelevant skateboarders have followers right now. shits a joke.
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hahahahahaha most of skateboarding is a lie, statistically proven.
a lot of skateboarders figured out early on in instagram to just like every photo with the the hashtag skateboarding to get followers. do it to a photo now and i guarantee greg lutzka and mike mo will like it. this is how unrelivent skateboarders have followers right now. shit a joke.
haha I'm going to give this a try next time I post
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Just because everyone is probably wondering
(https://i.imgur.com/p4gGVyk_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium)
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^^ Honestly, that is a pretty good percentage for our favorite equestrian. must be his face
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Russian bots, dude...
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So, most accounts on the internet are fake. I remember seeing a statistic saying like 70%?of internet activity is robots. Like if you go to any small town newspaper with the comment section open, you’ll see most if not all is just bots.
Also earlier this year there was post about pros with fake followers. The border use to have social media data. You could see spikes in followers. Somebody showed that some pros would get spikes of 5 or 10k followers without any justification (like a trending clip) the border has removed that feature
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This isnt just skateboarding, its every industry that gives social media any relevancy.
Youtube videos are the same way. You can purchase thousands of views for a post no problem.
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Russian bots, dude...
true. I’ve been hacked before by someone in Russia and I get added to fake porn group chats on Instagram by a fake Russian bot account. It happens to everyone I bring it up to as well
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I opened this thread expecting to see screenshots from Links, Pics, and Quotes, of proof that certain pro skaters and brands buying followers. I'm disappointed
Me too! More thought and effort was put into the Nora/Lizzie beef post.
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Davey Boy of Monster/ Punisher Skateboards fame has 25k followers but is lucky to get 1 comment per post.
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Instagram is about to stop showing likes anyway.
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(https://i.imgur.com/qwPtEeP.png)
real skateboards, fake instagram followers
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darkstar def has a real online following
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Low engagement on Instagram doesn't necessarily mean that the account has fake followers. Facebook (they own Instagram) rolled out their "boost" strategy to Instagram a long time ago.
Basically, you take a page/account with a good amount of followers and stop showing posts to all their followers. Then you tell the page/account that to get better engagement, they must boost/sponsor the post. The brand has to pay to reach their "own" audience.
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Since that’s kinda based on followers and averaging comments and likes on a post. Could content help it skew numbers. Like maybe real has more real followers it’s just no one cares to comment on kwalks saying let’s go and their weirdly jock team.
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true. I’ve been hacked before by someone in Russia and I get added to fake porn group chats on Instagram by a fake Russian bot account. It happens to everyone I bring it up to as well
is that like the late night shit on skinamax?
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(https://i.imgur.com/R3dQ0ol.gif)
Close one, but still #teamlizzie
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Just because everyone is probably wondering
(https://i.imgur.com/p4gGVyk_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium)
One of Mikey's companies
(https://i.postimg.cc/433x5CnB/Screen-Shot-2019-08-06-at-9-38-33-AM.png) (https://postimages.org/)
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Close one, but still #teamlizzie
Nora is clearly the people's champ
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Companies and brands buying followers has really become standard over the past few years.
The real problem IMO are 'influencers' with fake/purchased followers who try to use their supposed clout to hustle free product and money$$$
I handle social media for a consumer products brand and get requests for free stuff or money in return for posts or stories all the time. From influencers with tens of thousands of followers, but then their pics get under 100 likes. IG Audit is a great tool and works really well, especially for a free tool.
Would be interesting to get stats on some skate influencers out there...
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Companies and brands buying followers has really become standard over the past few years.
The real problem IMO are 'influencers' with fake/purchased followers who try to use their supposed clout to hustle free product and money$$$
I handle social media for a consumer products brand and get requests for free stuff or money in return for posts or stories all the time. From influencers with tens of thousands of followers, but then their pics get under 100 likes. IG Audit is a great tool and works really well, especially for a free tool.
Would be interesting to get stats on some skate influencers out there...
J Scott. Hillary shanks. Skate moss. Berra.
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darkstar def has a real online following
THIS
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Someone do Manny Santiago's company. I swear when he started it, he had a ton of follows off the get go.
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I am pretty sure this is a common thing
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biebel 46% real :D
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i one time bought 25k followers for my best friend, and didn't tell him. the next day, 100's of follows a second started rolling in.
best $9 i've ever spent
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The engagement rate doesn't really tell the whole story. An old account will have a bunch of old accounts and random bots, and also if the hype has died down the algorithm doesn't favor that accounts posts and shows them last in your feed.
A good way to detect who has actually bought followers is looking at spikes in follower growth. The most obvious is probably Mikey Taylor who went from 500k to almost 900k during this year without having done anything.
(https://i.ibb.co/BzLrNKT/mikeytaylor.png)
Also sometimes accounts get re-used so that a new skate company buys a failed skate company's account so that they have a bunch of followers right from the start
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Hey now, just because they're high-school dropouts who strictly lurk the local pre-fab, their incoherent begging for a free board doesn't make them "fake."
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I personally am fascinated by mikey taylor’s Instagram account. Although it is pretty obvious he’s bought hundreds of thousands of followers, every post has hundreds of mindlessly positive comments, which he then responds to each one with something mindlessly positive. Literally not one comment that has any kind of substance/humanity to it. Could he be faking/buying his own comments?
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I’m just trying to get things clear here, I’m not trying call anyone out (although I can call out numerous accounts) but I’m noticing so many accounts that have fake followers. Big name brands that we would’ve never guessed, with a butt load of followers, but not the amount of likes or comments to back it up. I know it’s just the internet and why do I care...I don’t, but it’s kind of embarrassing when a brand that we grew up on has 100k followers and then like 400 likes. Idk. Just weird to me and was hoping someone could justify this for me or maybe I have the wrong idea of it all.
I think maybe you do.
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I think Javier Nunez was calling people out for doing this. We should all listen to Javier Nunez regarding a great deal of issues, really.
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I personally am fascinated by mikey taylor’s Instagram account. Although it is pretty obvious he’s bought hundreds of thousands of followers, every post has hundreds of mindlessly positive comments, which he then responds to each one with something mindlessly positive. Literally not one comment that has any kind of substance/humanity to it. Could he be faking/buying his own comments?
100%
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I think Javier Nunez was calling people out for doing this. We should all listen to Javier Nunez regarding a great deal of issues, really.
WWJND
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This isnt just skateboarding, its every industry that gives social media any relevancy.
Youtube videos are the same way. You can purchase thousands of views for a post no problem.
genuinely curious as i've never heard that about youtube. would you happen to have a link?
i one time bought 25k followers for my best friend, and didn't tell him. the next day, 100's of follows a second started rolling in.
best $9 i've ever spent
you're a true pal
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(https://i.postimg.cc/MGR0YML6/Screen-Shot-2019-08-06-at-4-28-08-PM.png) (https://postimages.org/) (https://forensicanthropologist.net/salary)
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I personally am fascinated by mikey taylor’s Instagram account. Although it is pretty obvious he’s bought hundreds of thousands of followers, every post has hundreds of mindlessly positive comments, which he then responds to each one with something mindlessly positive. Literally not one comment that has any kind of substance/humanity to it. Could he be faking/buying his own comments?
100%
I think so too. There was an "influencer" account I used to follow - the guy posted cool interior photos or his house, and fits - and within 10 minutes of every post he'd have 30-40 comments from similar "influencer" accounts. Similar absent minded comments on every post, and he'd reply back with some generic thank you. Seems like a good scam he was running though, as it didn't seem to obvious he was fuckin with bots/automation.
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i one time bought 25k followers for my best friend, and didn't tell him. the next day, 100's of follows a second started rolling in.
best $9 i've ever spent
Brilliant
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Glad people are doing some in depth research on this stuff. It's crazy how much insta has changed the way we perceive and consume skateboarding.
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Skatemosss: 73% real
hilaryshankss: 80% real
jscott_handsdown: 78% real
mannysantiago: 74% real
fortuneskate: 65% real
Steve Berra's account is private
I got 68% for Skatemosss, seems like that's within the margin of error. I'm actually somewhat surprised at that. Then again she is an attractive woman and I'm sure there's plenty of people who want to…"follow her feed"
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At least I’m proud that the shirt account/homies brand page I have got better stats than most of the sk8 accounts lmao
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i one time bought 25k followers for my best friend, and didn't tell him. the next day, 100's of follows a second started rolling in.
best $9 i've ever spent
Brilliant
We did it as a prank on someone who was legit trying to be an "influencer" cost us a bit more than $9 but it was worth it to see how much of a tool the person turned into once he started getting a heap of followers... They didn't know for a solid 6 months that we had purchased them as a group until he hit up a company to do some sponsored content and they shut him done because they knew most of his followers were fake.
I wondered for a while how they knew that, figured they had someone sift through all the followers but then I saw this tool and it all made sense, learnt something new today so thank you!
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Low engagement on Instagram doesn't necessarily mean that the account has fake followers. Facebook (they own Instagram) rolled out their "boost" strategy to Instagram a long time ago.
Basically, you take a page/account with a good amount of followers and stop showing posts to all their followers. Then you tell the page/account that to get better engagement, they must boost/sponsor the post. The brand has to pay to reach their "own" audience.
that's true for facebook, i don't think that's been imposed on instagram yet though. i'm sure it's coming though and the 'hiding likes' thing is the first step, under the guise of helping people's mental health. i'm gonna be pissed off when that happens as i run my work IG and we use it to promote everything we do and it works pretty well. when we publish the same content to our FB page with the same number of followers it literally gets seen by about 10 people. i've no doubt they'll force me to change the IG account to a 'business' one soon enough and make me pay to get anyone to see our posts.
also i wouldn't trust that fake followers aggregator too much, i just ran ours through it and got like 54% real followers which i know is bullshit. we only have a small number to go off though
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Just because everyone is probably wondering
(https://i.imgur.com/p4gGVyk_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium)
One of Mikey's companies
(https://i.postimg.cc/433x5CnB/Screen-Shot-2019-08-06-at-9-38-33-AM.png) (https://postimages.org/)
low engagement on his avni account is probably because that instagram was originally an account called flying strangers and they posted really great photography, then he turned it into some boring podcast.
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I personally am fascinated by mikey taylor’s Instagram account. Although it is pretty obvious he’s bought hundreds of thousands of followers, every post has hundreds of mindlessly positive comments, which he then responds to each one with something mindlessly positive. Literally not one comment that has any kind of substance/humanity to it. Could he be faking/buying his own comments?
100%
I think so too. There was an "influencer" account I used to follow - the guy posted cool interior photos or his house, and fits - and within 10 minutes of every post he'd have 30-40 comments from similar "influencer" accounts. Similar absent minded comments on every post, and he'd reply back with some generic thank you. Seems like a good scam he was running though, as it didn't seem to obvious he was fuckin with bots/automation.
I think a lot of this is "instagram pods." Basically groups you join (DMs or Facebook groups or whatever), and every time a pod member posts something, everyone else will go and like/comment on it. It's really weird and popular with Instagram photography. Example. (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1713976968612486/)
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I personally am fascinated by mikey taylor’s Instagram account. Although it is pretty obvious he’s bought hundreds of thousands of followers, every post has hundreds of mindlessly positive comments, which he then responds to each one with something mindlessly positive. Literally not one comment that has any kind of substance/humanity to it. Could he be faking/buying his own comments?
100%
I think so too. There was an "influencer" account I used to follow - the guy posted cool interior photos or his house, and fits - and within 10 minutes of every post he'd have 30-40 comments from similar "influencer" accounts. Similar absent minded comments on every post, and he'd reply back with some generic thank you. Seems like a good scam he was running though, as it didn't seem to obvious he was fuckin with bots/automation.
I think a lot of this is "instagram pods." Basically groups you join (DMs or Facebook groups or whatever), and every time a pod member posts something, everyone else will go and like/comment on it. It's really weird and popular with Instagram photography. Example. (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1713976968612486/)
'Staying on' on social media seems like too much fucking work. So glad I never got wrapped up in that shit.
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LOL, mods, why'd you delete my click farm post?
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I keep reading FAKE FLOWERS
There's a lot of cute/well done fake/artificial flowers. Glad I looked them up
(https://www.dhresource.com/0x0s/f2-albu-g7-M00-08-67-rBVaSVu-ueyAe5r4AASwyMUzwdw596.jpg/new-beautiful-artificial-flowers-silk-flowers.jpg)
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I personally am fascinated by mikey taylor’s Instagram account. Although it is pretty obvious he’s bought hundreds of thousands of followers, every post has hundreds of mindlessly positive comments, which he then responds to each one with something mindlessly positive. Literally not one comment that has any kind of substance/humanity to it. Could he be faking/buying his own comments?
100%
I think so too. There was an "influencer" account I used to follow - the guy posted cool interior photos or his house, and fits - and within 10 minutes of every post he'd have 30-40 comments from similar "influencer" accounts. Similar absent minded comments on every post, and he'd reply back with some generic thank you. Seems like a good scam he was running though, as it didn't seem to obvious he was fuckin with bots/automation.
the reason for this is instagram only pushes posts that are engaging. If there are no conversations on your posts they fall flat. Commenting back to everyone is the easiest way to make sure your post is seen.
The replies probably have no soul because Im sure he pays someone to run his page because honestly who the hell has time to reply to every meaningless response
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I personally am fascinated by mikey taylor’s Instagram account. Although it is pretty obvious he’s bought hundreds of thousands of followers, every post has hundreds of mindlessly positive comments, which he then responds to each one with something mindlessly positive. Literally not one comment that has any kind of substance/humanity to it. Could he be faking/buying his own comments?
100%
I think so too. There was an "influencer" account I used to follow - the guy posted cool interior photos or his house, and fits - and within 10 minutes of every post he'd have 30-40 comments from similar "influencer" accounts. Similar absent minded comments on every post, and he'd reply back with some generic thank you. Seems like a good scam he was running though, as it didn't seem to obvious he was fuckin with bots/automation.
I think a lot of this is "instagram pods." Basically groups you join (DMs or Facebook groups or whatever), and every time a pod member posts something, everyone else will go and like/comment on it. It's really weird and popular with Instagram photography. Example. (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1713976968612486/)
'Staying on' on social media seems like too much fucking work. So glad I never got wrapped up in that shit.
this. Fuckk all that. Go outside and interact with people instead. its way easier
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i have a friend who did this and also lies about being am for venture
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i have a friend who did this and also lies about being am for venture
cool low key beilievable brag.
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you can buy followers, likes and comments. so even those who seem like they have surprisingly good stats are probably even worse if you were to look deep into it.
i wouldn't be surprised if some of those pros who comment on absolutely everything is just a script setup to like or comment on absolutely everything within the given parameters. they probably didn't do it themselves because they are idiots, but you can pay a local nerd a couple of bucks to set it up for you.
also didn't boardr have an instagram stat like the graph posted? and someone here posted mikeys obviously fake as fuck account gaining 100k+ in a day without doing anything- and it was removed off the site? that was gold.
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I personally am fascinated by mikey taylor’s Instagram account. Although it is pretty obvious he’s bought hundreds of thousands of followers, every post has hundreds of mindlessly positive comments, which he then responds to each one with something mindlessly positive. Literally not one comment that has any kind of substance/humanity to it. Could he be faking/buying his own comments?
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I think so too. There was an "influencer" account I used to follow - the guy posted cool interior photos or his house, and fits - and within 10 minutes of every post he'd have 30-40 comments from similar "influencer" accounts. Similar absent minded comments on every post, and he'd reply back with some generic thank you. Seems like a good scam he was running though, as it didn't seem to obvious he was fuckin with bots/automation.
I think a lot of this is "instagram pods." Basically groups you join (DMs or Facebook groups or whatever), and every time a pod member posts something, everyone else will go and like/comment on it. It's really weird and popular with Instagram photography. Example. (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1713976968612486/)
'Staying on' on social media seems like too much fucking work. So glad I never got wrapped up in that shit.
Yeah far out the world is so weird these days. This text is from the FB pod link:
"About
In order to support one another and fight the limitations of the Instagram algorithm, I have created this Instagram pod so that we can stay easily connected! Think of this pod as a collective group of cheerleaders + engagement boosters who want to see you succeed.
This is how the pod works: whenever someone in our pod posts to Instagram, we all go ‘like’ and leave a genuine comment (4 or more words) on their latest post as soon as we can. A few minutes after posting to Instagram, come here into the group and comment with your favorite emoticon (or give us a few details about the latest post and explain how we can best encourage you). Then, the pod will get to work!
Please do not "follow" each other unless you are committed to commenting and liking daily. DO NOT ASK FOR FOLLOWS OR YOU WILL BE REMOVED. Too many followers who never like or comment cause you to fall in priority with the new algorithms.
This group is designed for you to engage with one another through comments and likes. We ask that each pod member posts no more than 1 Instagram post in the daily thread that they would like engagement on each day. Too many can get overwhelming. Please post the link in the daily thread started by an admin each day.
We also ask that each pod member must stay active in commenting and liking others posts. If you post in a thread, you must comment on AT LEAST 5 other instagram posts above yours.
We ask that on Facebook, you put a comment in the comments section of the image you have commented on (on Instagram) so we are able to ensure you are active in the group."
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Selfish opportunists. The worst people. Disgusting.
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I turned my account public for a hot sec and got 96% real followers, so yeah I guess error is around 4 or 5 percent?
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i wouldn't be surprised if some of those pros who comment on absolutely everything is just a script setup to like or comment on absolutely everything within the given parameters.
(https://i.imgur.com/Q9lwlC2.jpg)
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I personally am fascinated by mikey taylor’s Instagram account. Although it is pretty obvious he’s bought hundreds of thousands of followers, every post has hundreds of mindlessly positive comments, which he then responds to each one with something mindlessly positive. Literally not one comment that has any kind of substance/humanity to it. Could he be faking/buying his own comments?
100%
I think so too. There was an "influencer" account I used to follow - the guy posted cool interior photos or his house, and fits - and within 10 minutes of every post he'd have 30-40 comments from similar "influencer" accounts. Similar absent minded comments on every post, and he'd reply back with some generic thank you. Seems like a good scam he was running though, as it didn't seem to obvious he was fuckin with bots/automation.
I think a lot of this is "instagram pods." Basically groups you join (DMs or Facebook groups or whatever), and every time a pod member posts something, everyone else will go and like/comment on it. It's really weird and popular with Instagram photography. Example. (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1713976968612486/)
'Staying on' on social media seems like too much fucking work. So glad I never got wrapped up in that shit.
Yeah far out the world is so weird these days. This text is from the FB pod link:
"About
In order to support one another and fight the limitations of the Instagram algorithm, I have created this Instagram pod so that we can stay easily connected! Think of this pod as a collective group of cheerleaders + engagement boosters who want to see you succeed.
This is how the pod works: whenever someone in our pod posts to Instagram, we all go ‘like’ and leave a genuine comment (4 or more words) on their latest post as soon as we can. A few minutes after posting to Instagram, come here into the group and comment with your favorite emoticon (or give us a few details about the latest post and explain how we can best encourage you). Then, the pod will get to work!
Please do not "follow" each other unless you are committed to commenting and liking daily. DO NOT ASK FOR FOLLOWS OR YOU WILL BE REMOVED. Too many followers who never like or comment cause you to fall in priority with the new algorithms.
This group is designed for you to engage with one another through comments and likes. We ask that each pod member posts no more than 1 Instagram post in the daily thread that they would like engagement on each day. Too many can get overwhelming. Please post the link in the daily thread started by an admin each day.
We also ask that each pod member must stay active in commenting and liking others posts. If you post in a thread, you must comment on AT LEAST 5 other instagram posts above yours.
We ask that on Facebook, you put a comment in the comments section of the image you have commented on (on Instagram) so we are able to ensure you are active in the group."
"Think of this pod as a collective group of cheerleaders + engagement boosters who want to see you succeed."
Fuckin gronks
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Of course. How else would Grizzly have a million followers, with less than 10 comments on most of their hideous trash?
Mikey Taylor is an unintentional comedian that's funnier than most famous ones - the only difference is I'm laughing at him, not with.