I paid $65 for a "real human" Instagram follower service to test it, and 40 of the 50 accounts were AI pics

Brooke Ellis · 2026-10-18T14:50:03.397264+00:00

I wanted to see how bad the fake follower thing was, so I threw $65 at a site I found on Reddit and bought 50 followers. About 40 of them had the same face, just slightly warped, no posts, and bios that read like a fortune cookie. One account got flagged for spam inside a week and dragged my page down with it. I screenshotted every profile before they got nuked, should I post the batch here so people can see the pattern or is 40 pics too much for one thread?

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I paid $65 for a "real human" Instagram follower service to test it, and 40 of the 50 accounts were AI pics | Bot or Not - Vivisector