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Here’s an incredibly shitty painting I did of my Instagram homepage with 872 likes and the caption “#art.”
Your social media narcissism is fueling a boom in internet affirmation services: clickjacking. Even if you're unfamiliar with the term, you've likely seen it in action — or have been the victim of it.
Clickjacking is one of the more nefarious ways companies are rushing to get “real followers” to the Instagram accounts of attention-starved customers. One rudimentary example of clickjacking involves floating an invisible Instagram “follow” button over a hacked website so that users attempting to click on the website actually end up following Instagram accounts. Basically, you click on the website and you get jacked.
Corey, 29, runs the bitcoin-based site
CoinCrack.com, which sells fake Instagram followers and various other social media “likes” or “reblogs” to entrepreneurs and desperately narcissistic people. But Corey doesn’t use clickjacking. He experimented with the service but his customers complained about their new followers leaving some slightly-too-real comments.
“We tested a supplier who claimed to offer 'real followers' via clickjacking. After tweeting to our new 'real followers' we received replies saying, ‘Who the fuck are you!? I didn't follow you!’" Corey explained. "Fake accounts are better, they don’t complain.”
