From the YouTube link:

Guy Gets Inside A Chinese Click Farm And Holy Crap, That's A Lot Of Phones

​Turns out if you want to run a business where you rate a bunch of apps and write fake reviews, you can't just spoof having a bunch of phones — you actually need the phones. And so that's what we have here: a room full of phones relentlessly rating apps and writing BS reviews because everything in life (and particularly on the internet) is a lie.

A Russian man visited a Chinese click farm. They make fake ratings for mobile apps. He said they have 10,000 more phones.

A Russian Went Inside A Chinese Click-Farm: This Is What He Found

On the day when Snapchat erased billions of market cap from investors (and founders) accounts - as the MAUs-means-money model seems to break - we thought it worthwhile taking another glimpse into the hush-hush world of 'click-farms' and the fakeness of the latest social network fads.

So, if they're not human, where do all those "likes," "retweets," and "followers" lighting up your social media accounts from?

Thanks to this Russian gentleman - who visited a Chinese click farm, where they make fake ratings for mobile apps and other things like this - we now know...

He said they have 10,000 more phones just like these.

As we concluded previously, the bottom line is simple: "The illusion of a massive following is often just that," said Tony Harris, who does social media marketing for major Hollywood movie firms, said he would love to be able to give his clients massive numbers of Twitter followers and Facebook fans, but buying them from random strangers is not very effective or ethical. And once the prevailing users of social networks grasp that one of the main driving features of the current social networking fad du jour is nothing but a big cash scam operating out of a basement in the far east, expect both Facebook and shortly thereafter, Twitter, to go the way of 6 Degrees, Friendster and MySpace, only this time the bagholders will be the public. Because "it is never different this time." The only certain thing: someone will promptly step in to replace any social network that quietly fades into the sunset.

Inside China's phoney 'click farm': Tiny office uses 10,000 handsets to send fake ratings and 'likes' for boosting clients' online popularity.

Facebook?

Huh... Is that similar to MySpace or maybe Friendster? It should be expected that some lesser-known websites wouldn't be on our list of accepted video hosts.

@speechless - Can you PM me the embed code you're trying to use? Please enclose it in <code> code tags </code> so it will be properly formatted.

>> ^PlayhousePals:

>> ^Sagemind:
If they go bankrupt, we won't have to use it anymore.

I'm proud to say I've NEVER had a FacePlant account. I had a foreboding feeling about it from the git go and refused to participate no matter how much pressure i got from family and friends [real ones]. I must admit I am amused by the recent developments. TeeHee =o)


I had one, but with fake data. I got kicked off after a few weeks. Heh. MySpace, Friendster, etc. didn't ban me.

shtop luring childrensh wif candeesh>> ^ant:

I refuse to use it for using real names like Facebook (was on it for about three weeks and got kicked off). I had no problems on MySpace, Friendster, etc.

I refuse to use it for using real names like Facebook (was on it for about three weeks and got kicked off). I had no problems on MySpace, Friendster, etc.

>> ^luxury_pie:

>> ^ant:
I was on Facebook for about three weeks and then got kicked off for faking data. Whatever!

What do you mean? You can't fake stuff on facebook? Wow, glad I didn't try it in that alley back then...


Yep, can't provide real info. I never had problems on MySpace, Friendster, etc. FYI, http://aqfl.net/node/7159 for the details. I won't bother with Google+ since it wants real datas.

more 1337 Ad ideas from last decade:

Rickroll: Guy in suit dances and sings - never gonna crack my nuts, never gonna chem them up, never gonna bite my Wonderful Pistachios!

HamsterDance: Wacky hamster dance song paired with crude lo rez animation of dancing pistachios.

Dramatic chipmunk: Da da daaaa.... chipmunk turns around and guess what he's eating? A pistachio.

Possible slogans:
IM IN UR KITCHEN, EATIN UR PISTACHIOS!!1!
ALL UR PISTACHIOS ARE BELONG IN UR BELLY!

If you like any of these ideas, just contact me at my friendster account.

oh yeah, friendster.

I was expecting the narrator to say "Bueller?...Bueller?..." but unfortunately he didn't.

I'll save you 15 minutes; MySpace.com was not an internet 'startup' because employees came from the same failed spam/spyware company, and was more of a side project to copy Friendster's success by pairing their own version of that site with a relatively robust marketing department.

Thats it. Should be 2 minutes long.

New user posting a recently added video to Youtube with less then 100 views, that is a promotional vehicle for a new movie that is premiering in May. Crossposted on Friendster and MySpace.

See "EVOLUTION: THE MUSICAL!" at it's WORLD PREMIERE on TUESDAY, MAY 6TH, 2008, as part of the SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL!

Interesting. I found Bolicki's video and have posted it (which is probably what he wanted to happen, right?)

If the fellow in that video is Bolicki, then he's put on a little weight. I've looked at some images at his Friendster page and he has cheekbones in them. (Although that profile shot does look a lot like "Donnie" early in the video.) If he's behind this, it's more likely that he hired an actor.

"Friendster got kind of gay."