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How We Bought Instagram Followers

It's real, guys. 

After months - nay, years - of wondering. 
Wondering f you could, really, with the click of a button, purchase tangible social influence . . . 

I know now that it's true. 
Devastating, but true. 

The idea of buying Instagram followers came to my attention about a year or so ago, when I heard from multiple sources that a certain big name blogger had used this technique to gain her fame. 

Ever since then, I've wondered: Could it really be that easy? Could buying followers - Instagram, Twitter, Facebook - really skyrocket you to success?
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Well, it's an easy enough thing to find out. Especially since doing so is weirdly cheap. 
Even so, the idea of it really scared me. After witnessing at fashion week just how big of a deal Instagram followers could be, the idea that you could obtain them for less than a two minute cab ride was literally disturbing. The thought of it makes me uncomfortable. 

Would it be melodramatic to say that it would mean that everything I'd ever known was a lie?

Needless to say, it was not my account with which we (a fearless friend & my fearful self) experimented.

This is our story:

1. First step, we intellectually Googled "best place to buy Instagram followers".



2. Second step, we bought said followers. - $6 for 500 bonifide fake followers. 
They generously offered an extra 250 for $2. 
We took the bait and skipped ordering sushi for lunch that day. 'Twas quite the sacrifice. 

3. Third step, we waited. 
Several days, in fact. It was a good solid two days before we saw any changes at all. Then slowly, it began. The followers trickled in steadily over the course of about 3 days. Almost as if to mimic the real live effect of going viral. 
4. Fourth step, we analyzed. Who were these "followers"? 
Most are fake, one-photo accounts with unpronounceable names & quirky pictures. It would be easy enough examine the followers of - say, one aforementioned "big name blogger" to check for their legitimacy, except for the fact that most accounts only allow you limited access to said followers. This poses a problem, because if our theory is correct, buying a large sum of followers will prompt the organic aggregation of additional, real human, followers - which would check out as legit. So no good way to investigate. 

** Next step?
We wait. 
Will my anonymous friend blow up? Will his/her new followers rate increase ten-fold? Will the acquisition of 750 fake followers prompt the subsequent acquisition of 750 - and then 1500 - and then 3000 - more? What is, as my friend referred to it, "the magic number"?

Or will the fake followers slowly go away? 
Will they leave just as quickly as they came?

Or maybe Instagram will flag/disable his/her account?
I mean, is this even legal?

I'll keep you colonels updated. 

Until then,
let's all ponder what the complete destruction of follower value could mean for social media as a whole?
Could this be the beginning of the end?


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8 comments:

  1. UnknownFebruary 24, 2014 at 4:55 AM

    that is fucking nutzo…..that explains why my copycat got 6,000 followers in one month and every time i gain one i lose 2 bahahahah the things some people will do

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  2. UnknownFebruary 24, 2014 at 7:20 AM

    this is FASCINATING. never have I ever heard of this. but I'm riveted and can't wait to see what happens.

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  3. roxyturtleFebruary 24, 2014 at 12:14 PM

    OMG this post is scintillating. I have always wondered if people actually use things or not. Sadly Instagram/Facebook/etc followers are something of a currency so I can see why these companies would exist. All just proving that it's one big circle jerk.

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  4. JamieFebruary 24, 2014 at 5:42 PM

    WOW. I had no idea, but there are IG accounts I have come across where I've really questioned the number of followers. Just last night, I saw some little high school girl from a town in my home state I've never heard of who has like 50k followers that thanks to you I now know are not all real.

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  5. NorbyahFebruary 24, 2014 at 5:59 PM

    i'm so disillusioned. but not entirely surprised. i mean, really, in life one must always question and never accept for face value. and really, if people just jump on and follow someone because an account has xx,xxx number of followers, then they should really learn to think for themselves. it's a bit like high school dynamics...so and so has this many friends because she's so popular, etc...but how many of those friends are real? like the kind that will bring you over your homework and some soup when you're feeling sick or sit with you when your boyfriend breaks up with you and let you wipe your snotty face on their shoulder while you cry about it. oh well...it will be interesting to see what you discover.
    xo
    n

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