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Gaming the Instagram Algorithm with Fake Engagement

from #298 - Puerto Rican Papi | The Tim Dillon Show · #298

3 min

Tim explains how influencers manipulate Instagram's algorithm by responding to every comment to boost visibility, calling it sociopathic, and contrasts it with LA people who never struggled before becoming successful.

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  • Instagram influencers respond to every comment with fake engagement to manipulate the algorithm into showing their content to more people.
  • Tim describes the practice as sociopathic—people blindly say 'love you' and 'thank you' to strangers to game the system rather than build genuine relationships.
  • All famous Instagram models and TikTokers do this; it's part of their job, often handled by social media managers who respond to everything.
  • Tim responds to some people on social media but not everyone, and doesn't play those algorithm-gaming games.
  • One guy he responded to once has been sending him follow-up DMs with middle fingers because Tim didn't keep replying, treating one response as the start of a friendship.
  • Instead of gaming the system and trying to manipulate algorithms, people should focus on being good, funny, or interesting.
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