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everyone saw the title and I'm just
gonna hit you with the truth here it's
kinda clickbaity obviously not everyone
you see online is fake but after a
fairly substantial amount of
Investigation discussion with inside
sources and social digging I like to
present what I found with regards to
social media influencers and the
corrosive reality of what is and more
likely is not real engagement here's the
hook let's call it my proposition for
you to continue watching the video
yesterday I ran the largest Twitter
spaces in the world for web 3 nfts and
crypto it was me I had the largest
concurrent listener account the largest
number of total clicks I gained traffic
from people I had never met before
purely because of the size and all of it
was fake throughout the entire broadcast
I was open and plain about what this
really was and why I was doing it this
was an experiment nothing more nothing
less could I take a relatively unknown
burner account on Twitter and turn it
into the largest crypto spaces on the
entire platform within I don't know 10
to 15 minutes answer yes yes I could I'd
like to State very plainly that the
inspiration for this video came from a
user named Mr zerochill on Twitter after
having a decent conversation with him in
the background his work exposing bot
traffic and detailing issues within
social media was instrumental in my own
production and as a result I'll be
linking to his profile down below this
is the reality many many of your
favorite online influencers from Fitness
to finance crypto fashion and more are
powered by an artificial engine of Bot
traffic and fake engagement now some
people may hear this and say yeah no
[ __ ] but the problem is far deeper and
more infectious than many are currently
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works now this is not a tutorial per se
but we're all adults here and this time
I won't be taking steps to censor
anything full disclosure I don't care if
my Twitter account gets banned and it
might for publicly acknowledging all of
this it's a burner anyway but I'd like
to be fully clear that this is not
something ethical people do this is a
dishonest practice that happens to be
extremely common in the world of social
media and it is highly frowned upon do
not do it you can lose your profile thus
losing the money that you spent and you
can destroy your online reputation do
not do this I make this video as an
expose not a tutorial keep that in mind
anyway first you need a foundation or an
account there are plenty of options here
but the website I used more on this
later because I didn't actually use that
account in my experiment was called
player up player up sells Twitter
accounts not just Twitter accounts but
Facebook pages Instagram Pages YouTube
channels Tick Tock profiles everything
that's not the only site I either
there's more like Fame swap social
tradia swapped to fame accs etc etc but
for my own personal experiment I used
player up scrolling through I started to
look for a crypto centered nft profile
there is an entire section of the bot
ecosystem now exclusively focused
directly on web3 crypto and nfts so that
was just a really easy example to use it
turns out according to a series of
interviews that I did and questions I
asked of the sellers that pretty much
every single main stage selling profile
on player up is running through upwards
of 10 to 20 profiles per week many of
them in excess of a hundred thousand
followers according to one seller who I
had a brief conversation with they were
processing quote 10 plus accounts weekly
and were able to get me a 100 000
follower account within two days if I
paid up front now to be clear here the
best sellers will always use escrow
after an interview with a vendor who
completely panicked when they realized
who I was and why I was interviewing
them in the first place begging for
anonymity which I will grant them the
highest reputation sellers are able to
run through over a dozen accounts per
week easily that can total anywhere from
100 to 500 000 followers each
individually where the majority of those
followers are actual people real people
who simply engage heavily with whatever
space the farmer has targeted to confirm
this they showed me a couple of profiles
that they had previously sold recently
all over three hundred thousand
followers and while asking that I not
show these profiles in particular in the
video it's easy to find more sellers are
extremely upfront when asked about their
inventory all it takes is a couple of
telegram messages and you'll be looking
at a wide range of options usually
smaller profiles since the larger ones
always sell out first out of which you
can choose practically anything adult
themed accounts meant for advertising
only fans after scrubbing previous media
and pictures nft accounts meant to
monetize developers or projects as you
promote their work and their offering or
their token for money or even health and
fitness options where all you have to do
is start pushing run-of-the-mill
lifestyle tips while harnessing
sponsorships from dieting applications
and workout supplements oftentimes Shady
companies basically out of the box you
can have a monetizable social media
profile with moderate engagement
moderate to low engagement in a Target
industry of your choice that serves as
your basic Foundation that's all well
and good but this is where it gets a
little bit murky because this enormous
Bank of quickly sold out social media
profiles is cultivated in a variety of
different ways some of them are
automated to like and follow community
members in the space they are targeted
to grow others are hacked accounts that
have been rebranded away from the
initial owner that's an extremely common
one and some of them are filled with
bought followers to appear larger than
reality those are the disingenuous ones
the trick is finding one that is mostly
grown over the span of months by
actually participating even if that
participation is rudimentary at best in
the Target ecosystem let's say nfts for
right now but this translates into
pretty much any other popular consumer
industry once that has been achieved
once you you've purchased an account
whatever size it may be in the relevant
space with mostly legitimate followers
it's time to start building your
foundation this is where you need a
variety of readily available botnet
purchases aimed at bolstering
credibility and size it's actually very
simple and can be done on your own with
rudimentary coding skills but for those
who are less technically inclined AKA
most influencers it's easier to just
purchase them I myself used a website
called a social plug but again there are
many more out there be advised some of
these websites both the initial profile
marketplaces and bought service
platforms can be scams however many of
them are extremely precise on delivering
exactly what it is that they advertise
this is where I purchased two bulk
orders of Twitter space listeners for a
grand total of less than one thousand
dollars those two purchases would equate
to roughly 10 000 concurrent listening
profiles and all of this start to finish
took maybe 15 to 20 minutes from there
using my old research burner account on
Twitter with less than 300 followers I
spun up a podcast started broadcasting
and sent myself to the top of the charts
with a larger visible audience than
anyone else in the entire world on the
platform influencers that you follow
many of them do this many of them are
doing it right now and far more will do
it in the future because it works I
decided to do this in the most blatant
way possible on purpose to make a point
however had I wanted to I could have
obfuscated this used a larger Foundation
peppered in some secondary metric buys
and had the largest Twitter spaces in
the world while using it as a launch pad
to meet high profile guests and build
connections to be clear this already
happened even in my blatantly obvious
example where people with many thousands
of followers were joining just because
of how large the space had become I
invited a few of them to speak and was
completely transparent about what it was
that I was doing but with a touch more
subtlety and deception I could launch
and hold the largest Twitter spaces
profile in the world for just a few
thousand dollars however as with any
deception-based growth tactic you need
to be careful because there are a lot of
different ways to grow each with their
own risk profile the best way organic
traffic of course make real content
people are interested they follow or
subscribe end of story that's ideal but
growth hackers and a larger than you
probably expect a number of influencers
on social media that many of us follow
in our day-to-day lives without even
knowing it they don't have the patience
for that once you have your foundation
it's time to start bolstering routine
numbers for that you need a botnet ready
and waiting to make every single thing
that you post seem popular services for
this are everywhere yet again just like
the initial account purchase and some of
them are more expensive than others so
you know you can shop around however the
end result is pretty simple pick your
poison pay the money and suddenly
everything you put out there seems to be
popular excellent Foundation Baseline
popularity and the ability to catapult
yourself to the top spot on whatever
platform you have chosen at any given
time Tick Tock live Twitter spaces even
YouTube streams this is where where we
need to understand the balance though
doing this requires finesse because if
you overstep your reputation Burns and
it will take a tremendous amount of
effort and time to reverse that large
Twitter spaces for the example today can
be bought with less than a thousand
dollars but without the proper
Foundation you won't have enough real
people in the mix to hide your tracks
what a lot of people simply do not
realize though is that a broadcast
containing say 10 000 viewers regularly
could have nine thousand fake ones and
it would become incredibly hard for
regular viewers to even tell in that
circumstance the one in ten real people
provide enough engagement as cover to
avoid obvious assumptions also sometimes
you'll have a Twitter space where they
routinely have technical difficulties
and that's usually a very clear
indicator that they are bought in the
traffic and all you really have to do
though if you have let's say one in ten
real people is use the bot traffic to
promote yourself to the top or push
yourself to the top of the listing and
increase your desirability for guest
speakers and Brands while having enough
real people to hide your tracks for my
experiment since I was using a burner
account with basically no followers at
all I put out a community post on
YouTube this post was barely viewed
hardly interacted with and deleted
fairly quickly but maybe I don't know a
dozen people from the community joined
and that alone was cover enough for the
space to seem much more legitimate
simply by occupying the top slot on
Twitter I was attracting people that had
no idea who I was even verified people
and after a few more got elevated to
speakers as as they joined I promoted
them to speakers I was having a
consistent conversation with some really
cool people as the number one Twitter
spaces in the world that day for less
than a thousand dollars this phenomenon
especially for what you consider to be
larger influencers who actually do have
disposable Capital at their fingertips
that they can do this with is far more
common than most people realize I'm
talking pervasive and Incredibly
frequent successfully determining who is
or is not using this kind of tactic has
become become increasingly important as
social media evolves and as an example
of what I'm talking about originally
discovered by Mr zerochill on Twitter we
can look at transition.eth
transition.if also known as transition
57 is an influencer in the nft space who
aggressively utilizes their platform to
promote projects and cash in on
developer marketing budgets right so
they're making a lot of money doing this
and they're kind of prolific in the
space that's fine except it's a hacked
account with all activity prior to 2021
purged that used to belong to Redskins
Hall of Famer Ken Harvey a football
player most likely hacked and repurposed
because of its verification check mark
back in the day this account serves as a
perfect example of how social media
profiles are commodified and turned into
monetizable foundations by bad faith
actors using dishonest tactics the
industry of Bot traffic is thriving
right now while purchasing my own
personal bot Army that took me to the
number one spot on Twitter spaces I
actually had a bit of an issue where
half of the order didn't come through on
time but I was receiving minute by
minute customer support and
troubleshooting from an actual person
who is making sure that my order was
fulfilled with Incredible response time
I I [ __ ] you not the customer service I
received from a social media botting
platform right from their like CS
Department was possibly the best
customer service I've ever received in
my entire digital life because the
industry is not some sort of Fringe
economy with low traffic it is a main
stage tool constantly used used
extensively by social media influencers
especially in order to artificially
capitalize on sponsorships marketing
budgets and fame Twitter's ecosystem
focusing on Twitter because that's where
I ran this experiment isn't capable of
shaking this off Elon Musk has stated
that he will eradicate the Bots but the
Twitter we know today the platform it is
right now cannot sustain that decision
advertisers are wasting unbelievable
amounts of money on falsified profiles
without even knowing it while Twitter
Harvest enormous amounts of Revenue in
the process and the problem is only
growing what's to be done no idea brands
are spending money on sponsorships
projects or spending money for marketing
and artificially grown accounts are
harvesting a hefty chunk of all of it in
the process that's bad for basically
everyone except the growth hackers and
yet it continues day in and day out
across the entire platform before ending
though this is the juicy part I'll just
I'll leave you with this earlier I
talked about the account purchasing
phase and how one of the sellers I
showed wasn't the one that I used that
was intentional not a slip up because
even though I didn't use it during my
Twitter spaces listener experiment I did
purchase an nft profile a Twitter
profile with over a hundred thousand
followers I live among you now crypto
Bros I'm out there with a Twitter
account that should be relatively hard
to identify without serious
investigation and probably impossible to
identify unless I tell you the at or the
handle or whatever and I will now
attempt to cultivate that profile into a
prominent [ __ ] crypto influencer if I
succeed well that's the obvious
follow-up video because if I succeed in
crafting what appears to be a
semi-famous crypto personality on
Twitter I will then reveal myself
surprise [ __ ] once again
reiterating that the influencers you all
look up to in many separate Industries
have built their presence on lies and
falsified traffic now total transparency
the title yes it was clickbaity sort of
but having explored this world even just
moderately it is clear that the
landscape of social media influence is
an evolving economy where the presence
of fraudulent methods actors and
profiles has grown far larger than most
people understand a few thousand dollars
a couple months of laying low and
infrequent posting with a Sprinkle of
automatic engagement traffic and you can
become a social media influencer just
like all the rest maybe even bigger some
of them get suspended some accounts are
punished but the majority the majority
of them persist harnessing traffic
commanding attention as if they were
somehow legitimate and defrauding Brands
all to the benefit of scammers and
social media companies they will never
ban the Bots Twitter will never ban the
Bots as a generalized term here at least
not with any sincerity and effort
because the Bots are a central pillar of
their entire advertising World more
traffic more views more listeners more
metrics to advertise to the brands in
the first place more money most of what
you see online most of the people you
see online are fake and all it takes is
a few thousand dollars to manufacture an
entire influential social media identity
for yourself which can then be used for
whatever you want in the end falsified
profiles are becoming cheaper more
common harder to detect and more
sophisticated by the day as the entire
ecosystem of social media continues to
orbit them as a core part of the
advertising structure everyone you see
online is fake or at least you should
treat them that way until you know for
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gone through and done everything that I
would be speaking about also enormous
shout out to Mr zerochill on Twitter who
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always thank you all for watching and
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