This seems like an anecdotal experience that is brought up alot in the last couple years. Ive certainly had some experiences similar to many reported on this th

This seems like an anecdotal experience that is brought up alot in the last couple years. Ive certainly had some experiences similar to many reported on this thread. However, one more recently was different in an interesting way: I was talking to a friend of mines who recently had gotten into trading on robinhood and he was just explaining his investing strategy, as it were, to me as we walked through a park we frequent. I had my iphone on me as usual. Anways later that evening I would get one of these spam follow requests on instagram from some investing related personality account; keep in my mind I have essentially never searched for investing/market related info or content ever on my machine and definitely not on instagram, most of whom I follow are celebrities or artists.