Real followers, fake followers matter for showbiz?

Buying fake flower in black market has come very trendy across the social media platforms. That is because the black market is easy to find and you can buy as many followers as you like.   

Often, fake followers can be recognised by simply looking through their post or a clearly fake profile image, the interaction between them and other users. For example: Most fake account Instagram are quite lazy as they don’t post much, so it’s easy to pinpoint them amongst real users.

These day, fake follower services have been are utilise by celebrities. Notice that big star such as Kim Kardashian is one example of someone who buying fake followers. Kim Kardashian is extremely popular and considered a celebrity who does not hide her private life from her fans. Her Instagram account has over seventy million followers. However, back in 2014, Kardashian instantly lost over one million followers when Instagram decided to purge the fake accounts on the platform. Celebrities buying fake followers so that they could capture everyone attention. In another word, we could say that it is a competition between them, because more followers they have the popularity they will be against other celebrities. So more followers mean they can win the game against another.

Not only celebrity or influencer buying fake followers. Normal people also use this service, because it is a door for them to enter Showbiz.

In china celebrity such as “Hu Yi Tian” or “Lin Yi” are two examples of someone who were popular on Weibo and Tiktok and were invited to cast in web dramas. After the success of their web dramas they have sign up with the entertainment labels and have more opportunities in participating in TV series and live shows which currently they become more well-known and their popularity are increase. In fact, getting popular online would make it easier for normal people to enter the showbiz as the company see they already have huge amount of fans base, which the company recognised that it easier for them to invest money on someone who already have many fans.

Indeed, fake followers have play such an important role in people life. So beside, all the negative impacts it create, we can look at it in another perspective.