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Buying Followers Breaks Your Growth

13 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, the speaker emphatically warns against purchasing social‑media followers. They argue that bought followers—typically bots—damage platform algorithms, provide no genuine engagement, and are an expensive, ineffective shortcut. Instead, the speaker advocates for cultivating a smaller, organically grown audience, describing it as a more sustainable and authentic path to growth. The advice is presented as hard‑earned personal experience, with a strong recommendation to avoid follower‑buying altogether.

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Don't, do not, for the love of God, do not buy followers. It ruins your algorithm more than it lifts you up. And so you don't really need a big audience. In fact, here's the secret. When you have a much smaller audience, it's a lot better to grow it organically. That is not even a strategy. That's a shortcut. And so with shortcuts, it will do more damage than good for your ecosystem. So if you're serious, Do not do that. Take my advice. I have lived it and I would not recommend it to anybody. Besides, it is costly to do that and there's no meaning for it because people will just follow you. They're not even people, they're bots.