It's actually a service that these companies offer, but it's significantly more expensive over time since it's a continuous activity vs. a one time thing. I ima

It's actually a service that these companies offer, but it's significantly more expensive over time since it's a continuous activity vs. a one time thing. I imagine it's a lot more maintenance on their end. It's one thing to have x fake accounts follow you once, but it's another thing altogether to script the same x accounts to like every one of your posts every time. It's actually a downward spiral for people playing this game: you buy 100k followers, not cheap, but you can take that hit once. However if you want to look legit, you have to constantly pay for those accounts to like your posts, which over months can add up to a really unpleasant bill. It's especially unpleasant because none of those followers are monetizable, since they're not real, and you're now on the hook to keep paying for likes in perpetuity, or people might call you out. It's a reason why often you will see the nouveau-famous influencers claim that "IG shut down my account because my content was too saucy" as a way to save face and stop paying for likes. In reality they closed the account themselves and started from scratch because they could no longer afford the bill. Again, most have no idea, watching this from the outside.