My favorite local coffee shop has a bot farm setup in their backroom to boost IG engagement, this is some next-level local marketing ๐
@KevinEspiritu I don't get this. What am I missing here? Does social engagement convert to sales?
@AKASpencerScott TBH I don't really either, I don't see how profile visits (they're not adding followers, likes, comments) are going to do much
@KevinEspiritu Do the phones need to be in the coffee shop itself?
@drone_listener Not sure
@KevinEspiritu I canโt fathom how this pencils for a small coffee shop. Looks expensive to set up and maintain. Gotta sell a LOT more cups of coffee for it to be worth it. Not to mention it seems risky to me where your account could get punished for fake engagement later on.
@usafiore Guarantee it doesn't hahaha
@KevinEspiritu No way lol. This canโt be real?!
@wolfepacificllc I was as shocked as you
@KevinEspiritu How's the coffee?
@MattBraynard Great
@KevinEspiritu If a coffee shop is running this then Iโd rather not go to this coffee shop.
@0x1F9ED Very fair
@KevinEspiritu your local coffee shop running a botfarm with over 100 phones really makes you realize how compromised the internet is as a whole.
@ALEXEIMARTOV Especially salient point on this exact day
@KevinEspiritu If you were anyone else I'd be skeptical this is real lol. Mad. Crazy to think that if you wanna open a coffee shop in this day and age you may need some crazy other skills to compete
@fleshycam To be fair IDK how well it's doing for them, but there ARE a lot more people in lately
@KevinEspiritu Whats their ideal outcome? Like more views or sell more?
@EricFriedman Foot traffic
@KevinEspiritu kevin this is terrible news
@qizler I don't disagree
@KevinEspiritu Yo fam your local coffee shop has a scam side hustle ๐คฃ
@SeizureSalad314 Lmao
@KevinEspiritu what are the circumstances that led to you discovering this & being able to video it?!
@rachelclif I know all the baristas quite well and they showed me the back rooms...and there it was!
@KevinEspiritu Kind of a weird flex
@subaxiomat I'm not the owner
