About a month ago, I was chatting to an acquaintance whose Instagram following has mysteriously skyrocketed in the last year.
“How did that happen?” I asked her, full of curiosity and about 45 tablespoons of cynicism.
“Oh, you know. I just post really regularly and engage with other people’s content,” she told me like a total liar. “It happened, you know, like, super organically.”
I smelt a rat. A big, fat Instagram rat. After the New York Times reported that a heap of Instagram influencers are fraudulently acquiring their followers, my interest was well and truly piqued: In 2018, can you really become Instagram famous without cheating the system?
Naturally, I decided to find out. On my own account. In 10 days.
Aaaaaaaand here we are.
This is what I, along with my Instagram brainstrust – which consisted of an established beauty influencer, male model, and food blogger – decided was required for this extremely important ‘Make Mich Insta Famous’ experiment:
- I must post one thing to my Instagram feed every day, and one thing to my Instagram Story every day.
- I must formulate a “content plan” and stick to it.
- I must like/comment/interact with over 100 images a day. (I’m told this helps. I have absolutely no idea why.)
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Meh, just go back to posting about your fabulous self & the things & people you care about, find helpful or funny & feel the serenity of no longer needing David Warner.
I think that I might be on the verge of Disqus-famous, I've recently gained two followers that look very like Russian bots. They're either trying to sell me eurosex on the tundra, or are watching me on behalf of their completely democratically elected leader's behest.
Maybe I should whip my quips out and see what happens.
Oh, I had some random try to follow me on Pinterest! I had no idea why, all my boards are secret, so I don't think they'd see much. Maybe it was a bot!
Boris, Vlad - abort mission. He's onto us!