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Welcome to the 34th issue.
Today's topics:
Dead Internet Theory
A tool to Automate Website Actions using Browser Bots
One recommended video on Hacking a Billionaire
Dead Internet Theory
Dead Internet Theory is the idea that a majority of internet content is bots in some way.
This idea is true in places like Twitter, Facebook, Dating apps and most of the subreddits on a large scale.
But it is also true on a smaller scale on YouTube, Instagram, and other social media platforms.
Before AI, bots used pre-defined templates with some spintax.
But AI has made this all too easy to generate human-like responses.
You don't need more than a $5/month vps and an aged-account to write fully bot-generated tweets that look human like.
Worst case scenario you can do is ask specific questions depending on the post and you will get a reply.
This is huge because Social Media deranks accounts that don't engage with other accounts via replies.
It solves for that problem easily. As AI gets good, the bots will get good.
Where it is used?
Mostly on influencers post, or new trailers of new movies. And even in politics.
These accounts are known as sock accounts. Its mostly bots that are running the social media algorithm.
Nowadays, movie stars don't have as much attention as they previously had because every influencer is a star now.
Celebrity culture is dying so when you see your favorite movie starsβ movie trending online, take a look at the comments.
They each get the same template and the accounts are only active when their clients movies are launching.
Okay, so its all bots now. But what can I do with that info?
Well, you can use bots to your advantage. For as little as $100 per month, you can get more likes, more engagements, and more eyeballs. Eventually, it turns into more sales.
Every big influencer who blows up gives a fake artificial push to their content. If you read the books written on TikTok, you'll realize they have Chinese forms operating 24x7 that create new influencers all the time through these tactics.
If your content is good, why not give it an artificial boost to get more eyeballs and hopefully more sales?
Fake it till you make it.
Hat tip to Illuminati Pirate for reposting this essay in 2021 titled "Dead Internet Theory: Most of the Internet is Fake." It was originally posted by several anons on /x/ and wizardchan.
Highly recommend reading it because in 4-5 years, we may have more bots than actual users.
You've already noticed it if you watch YouTube and scroll through the comments section.
Social Media has a misaligned incentive to remove bots because bots make them a whole lot of money.
You can make a lot of money creating bots.
For example, there are newsletters that pay you money via Beehiiv Boosts or Sparkloop's Upscribe if you send them high-quality subscriber from tier-1 countries like US and UK. You can send 100s of subscribers from your main account if you run a Bot Farm using US/UK Sim Cards.
Just make them subscribe programmatically using Gmail's API. And unsubscribe them after a few weeks or months.
This is essentially free money. It costs <$1000 to run 30-100 bot farms and you can make $2000-$10000 per month fully automated. It is a cat-and-mouse game where the platforms will say they have tools to catch you but rarely do they actually have the tools or the resources to do so.
The farms look like this. This is as passive as it gets once you set it all up. Just needs some real estate.
A tool to Automate Website Actions using Browser Bots
Axiom AI allows you to save time using browser bots to automate website actions and repetitive tasks on any website or web app.
What you can do with it?
You can automate Twitter DMs
You can scrape leads
You can schedule your Tweets without paying $20/month for a scheduler
RPA (Robotic Process Automation) is huge on Desktop.
It will be huge in the Browser. Totally underserved market.
We all perform the same clicks every day on our browser.
This can automate that.
Scraping just got a whole lot easier.
One recommended video on Hacking a Billionaire
Rachel Tobac is my favorite Social Engineer on the internet right now.
She hacks into anything from banks to billionaires.
Best part? She doesn't even know how to write code.
Social Engineers are a whole other species. The weakest link in any hack is a human.
This video shows you how she hacked a billionaire.
This is proof if anyone wants to reach you, it really isn't that hard. Stay safe.
Tweet of the day
AI Dating coach built on-top of ChatGPT making $190,000/month.
333,000 download per month.
No new tech, just a wrapper on top of ChatGPT.
Founder got the idea from the Tinder Subreddit.
2024 is wild.
β GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg)
12:58 PM β’ May 7, 2024
Before Blake Anderson made UMax - Look Hot into a $500k MRR app, he built this.
AI x Dating is a huge market.
I'm pretty sure a ChatGPT plugin to flirt on Tinder would be a massive business to gamify your opening lines until you meet in person. Then you're on your own.
Multiple movies are made on this premise of a pick-up artist helping a guy get a girl. My favorite one is Jaan-E-Mann.
Rabbit Holes
The storytelling hack for 10x buzz on Reddit π¦ - Reddit is underrated. Because you can post on any subreddit and your follower count doesn't affect the post performance. Most Reddit posts are fake. Remember, Dead Internet Theory applies the most on anonymous social platforms like Reddit.
A truck driver with 3 crore views on Youtube - This YouTuber probably makes more from YouTube than his job as a truck driver. Internet is wild.
The Ultimate Story of Growth - The humble beginnings of growth hacking on the internet. I'm pretty sure growth hacking was done decades or even centuries ago on a smaller scale. Most new ideas are just forgotten old ideas. They just use different vehicles now. Earlie, the gatekeepers were media. Now, the gatekeeper is a social media algorithm. Both can be manipulated if you know the rules of the game.
Startup of the day
Repurpose is a massive business with 250K+ customers.
They automate audio and video publishing with 1-click.
Its absolutely brilliant because it saves so much time if you are trying to build an omnipresence across all social media channels.
This tool saves a lot of time and enables you to grow your audience with 1-click automation.
And the best part? It has an audience of influencers or people trying to be influencers.
The affiliate plan is generous enough to make it an MLM scheme.
MLM has a negative connotation now but it is an absolutely brilliant tactic.
If you can get MLM working for your app with a small incentive, it will grow tenfold.
Until next time,
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