(EXPERIMENT) 400 posts per day on IG for 100 days (40k posts total)

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Hi everyone. I am going to do an experiment for the next 100 days where I post 400 times a day to Instagram.

The goal: To build an "audience first" business where I grow an audience before deciding what to sell them.

Here are the bullet points:

100 accounts
4 posts per day
Meme / viral content
Original video footage (me)
Copied viral captions (stolen from other videos)
5 VAs

My background:

I have been doing OnlyFans management for the past 4 years and I am looking for a way out. Things are much harder now that they used to be. More competitive, stricter platforms, more saturated, etc. Taboo, people think ur a pervert, etc. Just over it.

However, during the past 4 years I have picked up a few valuable skills: Running multiple accounts and developing an eye for viral content.

The problem with OFM is that you are constantly fighting a battle with platforms that ban your accounts. So the game is not only "make a post that gets views/subs" but also "produce enough viable accounts to post to" which is very tedious and annoying, since the platforms don't really give accurate reasons as to why they banned you.

Bottom line is that despite all this, I have gotten pretty good at running lots of accounts and producing lots of content. So now instead of doing it in a niche that will get my accounts banned, I will do it in the most vanilla / wide-appeal niche there is, memes.

The goal:

Over the next 100 days, my only goal is to post 400x per day. I am not going to set view goals, etc. because that is not something that I can control. All I can do is make sure I am producing enough volume and getting it out there and let the IG algo gods do their thing.

I can tell you in a little preliminary test that I have been doing, I have 2 posts that have gone viral, one of them has 500k views and the other is sitting at 900k+ views. This is between 150 or so posts. So the rate of virality is not particularly good, but it is there. Most posts have around 300-500 views. A chunk have a few thousand, and some have 10k-40k.

Like I said I don't have a real business behind this yet but I am not going to think about that yet. My only concern is producing enough content to feed the machine.

Strategy

I don't think I would be able to produce 400 actually unique posts per day, so I will do it a bit differently. I will aim for 50-100 unique posts and then just spoof them until they reach 400. Then all 400 will be posted the same day to IG. Its not ideal to post essentially the same spoofed content multiple times per day, but I am but one man and I can only produce so much content in a day.

Speaking of the content, my method is somewhat simple:

1. Find viral posts on IG (I primarily look at shares)
2. Download them all
3. Copy their on screen captions and songs
4. Use content of myself instead of whatever is on the screen (standing around, sitting, pouring water, etc)
5. Post
6. Spoof

It's pretty simple and I believe it WILL work to get views because I have seen it work on 100s of accounts.

Potential pitfalls and challenges:

The way I see it there are 2 possibly 3 major problems with this strategy:

1. No commercial value

Let's say best case scenario I get 1 viral post per 200 posts of 500k views, which is more or less what I am doing now (sample size 200 let's say). That would be roughly 100 million views over the course of 100 days. That's all well and good, but these views are spread across 100 accounts with basically no brand identity. Would people buy things from a guy who posts memes? If so, what would they buy? My only ideas at the moment are meme t-shirts and something with wide appeal like coffee. Black Rifle Coffee actually did the same strategy I am doing here, where they built their audience first and then sold something that had wide appeal. It's a flimsy plan but better than no plan.

2. Account bans

I don't really view this as much of an issue to be honest because in my experience IG really only cares if you are trying to take people off site to take money from them. And if you are a man posting original video content (i.e. not reposts and not AI) then you are generally safe.

However, I have had my personal account on my phone suspended many times, not sure why, but it has happened and is annoying. But thankfully I don't run all these accounts on my iphone. Still, it could happen.

3. Boring video content

The content I am copying is for the most part just a funny on screen caption with some meaningless video or picture in the background. In other words, the video itself is irrelevant. Sometimes it's a blue sky, sometimes it's a selfie, sometimes its people eating dinner, sometimes its someone on their laptop, etc. 9/10 times it doesn't have anything to do with the caption itself.

I take this to mean that I can put any content in the video and the caption will do most of the heavy lifting. So why put myself? Well, 2 reasons. First one is that I believe that content with a recognizable person will lead to faster growth. And second is that if all goes well, that means that I will have Andrew Tate'd myself in that I have produced 100 accounts that are spamming my content, growing my "personal brand" whatever that will mean at the end of this timeframe.

Still, I am not the most photogenic person and my content is rather boring. Me standing, me sitting, me looking out the window, pouring a glass of water, etc. I'm 40 years old and not an actor and not particularly comfortable being cringe on camera. However since the caption is what will be doing the heavy lifting I am less concerned with this, maybe just a personal insecurity.

Anyway, that's it. I will keep this thread updated with any viral posts (I won't promote my own pages will maybe just give screenshots with the usernames/content blurred out). Happy to answer any questions.
 
On a batch of around 100 meme accounts, reach dropped hard within two or three weeks once the content started repeating across them, so I'd track per-account reach from day one.
 
On a batch of around 100 meme accounts, reach dropped hard within two or three weeks once the content started repeating across them, so I'd track per-account reach from day one.
How many unique posts were you putting up per day between 100 accounts?

For example if you posted 1x per day per account (100 total postings), how many of those were actual unique content (not just spoofed)?
 
Are you just making small edits to the same videos or actually changing the footage between versions?
 
Are you just making small edits to the same videos or actually changing the footage between versions?
I will make around 50 or so original reels per day. These are unique images or videos and unique captions.

Then they will be spoofed (bulk small edits like brightness, contrast, cropping, duration, etc) into several copies until I have enough to supply all the accounts. In the past 2 days I've made 157 unique videos. I try to work for around 4 hours per day, with breaks and stuff in between. Its not hard so much as it is somewhat tedious.

I'm going to work Saturday/Sunday and build up a bank of 300-400 videos, then I will start with the VA reposting on Monday and officially start the 100 days. Currently I am only posting like 9-10 times per day on an account I run on my phone, just so I can have some feedback on what's doing well.

The posts I made yesterday got 2-4k views, with some in the low/mid hundreds. My biggest challenge is getting good video footage. Like I said I'm not particularly photogenic and don't have a camera person, so its all basically me doing stuff around my apartment. Some stuff at the gym but I haven't found the right angles/backgrounds yet. Its a process.

I do have doubts sometimes like, "what is the point, what am i doing this for, etc" because there is less of a clear path to monetization that something simple like selling a service or product. But I am hoping that 3 months down the line I will be able to leverage the audience into something valuable. Its a risk for sure but if I project into the future, let's say I keep this pace of 400 reels per day for 365 days... that's 130,000 posts per year... that's on the level of Alex Hormozi who has a gajillion dollar company. And during that time in theory I would refine the content, get better raw video, and figure out how to make better videos overall. I just have to get past the awkward stage of "I am spending time and money to grow something with an unclear payoff and it feels bad."

Speaking of which, this whole thing will cost me around $7500 over a 3 month period.

VA: $300/mo
Cloud phones: $100/mo (per VA)
Proxies: $85/mo (5 total)

Comes out to around $2500/month x 3 months = $7500.

So its not exactly a small amount of money. And the question I ask myself is, "do I believe that after this I will be able to earn at least $2500/month after this 3 month period?" That's a tough question to answer because I don't exactly know what I will sell. Organic content consulting? T-shirts? Coffee? Real estate? Clipping services? I am not really sure but I will spend the next few months figuring it out as I develop the content further.
 
Current issues to solve:

1. Problems with banned accounts (VAs?)
2. How to monetize
3. Cutting costs / scaling
4. More interesting b-roll

Just an update. Two days ago I had the VAs start working on this project officially. They've each created 20+ accounts and are currently posting 2x a day. We are having issues with some of the VAs where the accounts were getting banned at a higher rate. Whether this is because the VAs are not doing their job properly or due to another reason I'm not sure. That would be my hunch but I am not sure.

I have 1 VA who is basically having 0 problems. Few banned accounts/removed posts. The rest are having something like a 50% attrition rate. And this is with NO links on the profiles. All original content as well, inasmuch as its just my content + some spoofs. Anyway just odd. It could be that IG is just more strict now I'm honestly not sure.

However there are some viral posts already. 2.5k, 4k. 9k. etc. Many have only a few hundred views as well, but the results are promising. The way I've calculated it, if I post 40,000 posts in 100 days (400 posts per day x 100 accounts x 100 days), then I would only need 2500 views per post (average) in order to hit 100m views. So to be getting so many views so early is promising.

The first month or so, the way I see it is that I will just be working the bugs out of the system. It will take a few weeks to get all the accounts stable. Once accounts are a few weeks old, I believe the likelihood that they will be banned for some BS is much lower.

Working with the VAs is actually very frustrating. I hesitate to call them stupid, but I really have trouble trying to figure out why they are working so poorly. I would say overall they probably do 70% of what I want them to do. But this type of work needs precision and if they cut corners then accounts will get banned and we won't get the results I need for this to be worth my time and money. I guess I'll just have to keep an eye on it.

Monetization

I've been giving a lot of thought to how I will eventually monetize this. Had some deep heart to hearts with AI on how this would work, and long story short their advice was basically, "sell ads and shoutouts." I am not interested in that at all.

The only options I am considering would be 1) affiliate partnerships where I put a link in bio and make money for selling something, 2) promoting something of my own like a Skool community or info product, or 3) transitioning the pages to use B-roll for a specific business (i.e. house painting, cooking, etc) to promote it that way.

If I had to guess I would say that the 3rd option would probably be the best. A few examples I've seen have been MMA coaches, a window cleaning service, and personal trainers. Basically what they do is just use b-roll from their field, add a meme (sometimes niche-specific sometimes not) and post it. My advantage is that I would be posting 400x a day so I have a much higher chance of going viral.

Costs / cost savings

Right now I am spending probably around $1000-$1500/month on cloud phones and proxies. This + $300/mo per VA x 5 VAs. So its not exactly cheap.

However what I would like to do is change from cloud phones to an API posting tool. Something like Metricool or some other custom solution. I have some programming experience but I'd really rather pay $200/mo or something and just not have to worry about the app breaking every 3 days over some nonsense.

I would still keep the VAs, but instead of having them post I would just give them fresh video content and tell them to make the memes on their own. They would probably be worse, tbh, but it would allow me to scale beyond 100 accounts per day. All they would have to do is take the content, find memes, and create ~100 or so per day. Spoof + post, bada boom bada bing we're gucci.

If I was able to have 100 accounts being run for let's say $200/mo, that means I would have +$800 saved from proxies / cloud phones. From there I could either 5x the number of accounts (would bring it to 500 total x 4 posts a day = 2000 posts a day). This would obviously be much better. And with 5 x VAs creating 100 pieces of content per day (plus my own 100 per day I create) that would be 600 unique pieces of content per day spread across 500 accounts... would be MUCH better and have a way higher hit rate for viral content (I think).

B-roll

So the strategy I am doing now mostly leans on the on screen caption to do the heavy lifting. Its just a sentence or two that is a joke or something relatable to the human experience. Sometimes there is some related on screen footage where hte caption does not make sense unless it has that type of footage, but usually not.

Currently my b roll is very boring. Me just doing things around my house. Stupid and boring.

Every day I go out and try to look for interesting things to record to make better b-roll. I currently live near the beach, so I have been going to the beach and filming the waves, the ocean, etc. Yesterday i went to a cat cafe and fed some cats and recorded that. I record myself sitting around, cooking, staring off into space, etc. Its all very boring and lame but its similar to what other ppl do for their content so I guess its where I'll start.

Ideally, I would have something more interesting. I've seen some ppl do stuff like cliff jumping, skateboarding, boxing/mma, and of course there is all the niche stuff like supercars and drone footage of exotic locations. Ideally I would be able to include myself in the video somehow, but I just don't really have anything that exciting that I do. Plus I'm too fat lol. I need to lose like 10 lbs and go do some more exciting stuff.

Next week I am going to get an Airbnb for a month and do a mini fight camp at a nice beach, so hopefully that will kill a few birds with one stone. In the meantime I will look for other stuff as well. But this also ties into how I would eventually monetize this. In a perfect world I would have some kind of cool lifestyle thing where I could just record myself doing it, make into memes, promote my own business or partner with another business about it, and essentially have unlimited content to promote the business across 500 accounts.

Easy example to understand: let's say I have an exotic car rental/dealership. I can use the fleet to record my own content, add the memes, add a link in bio, and promote the business that way. Easy to understand, harder to get a fleet of supercars. But that is kind of the way I am currently thinking about this.

Full 4x day posting will be up to speed in a few days. I think we are maybe 1-2-3 weeks away from 100 stable accounts. Let's say 1m from an API-based solution. Anyway its all speculation now, will update when I have something interesting to say.





I'm going to let it run for another few days and re-assess maybe after the weekend. Next week I will have some better b-roll as well
 
This is pretty insane. I would honestly start with monetization first though. Seems like a waste of money for all that work without a clear monetization plan.
 
Hi everyone. I am going to do an experiment for the next 100 days where I post 400 times a day to Instagram.

The goal: To build an "audience first" business where I grow an audience before deciding what to sell them.

Here are the bullet points:

100 accounts
4 posts per day
Meme / viral content
Original video footage (me)
Copied viral captions (stolen from other videos)
5 VAs

My background:

I have been doing OnlyFans management for the past 4 years and I am looking for a way out. Things are much harder now that they used to be. More competitive, stricter platforms, more saturated, etc. Taboo, people think ur a pervert, etc. Just over it.

However, during the past 4 years I have picked up a few valuable skills: Running multiple accounts and developing an eye for viral content.

The problem with OFM is that you are constantly fighting a battle with platforms that ban your accounts. So the game is not only "make a post that gets views/subs" but also "produce enough viable accounts to post to" which is very tedious and annoying, since the platforms don't really give accurate reasons as to why they banned you.

Bottom line is that despite all this, I have gotten pretty good at running lots of accounts and producing lots of content. So now instead of doing it in a niche that will get my accounts banned, I will do it in the most vanilla / wide-appeal niche there is, memes.

The goal:

Over the next 100 days, my only goal is to post 400x per day. I am not going to set view goals, etc. because that is not something that I can control. All I can do is make sure I am producing enough volume and getting it out there and let the IG algo gods do their thing.

I can tell you in a little preliminary test that I have been doing, I have 2 posts that have gone viral, one of them has 500k views and the other is sitting at 900k+ views. This is between 150 or so posts. So the rate of virality is not particularly good, but it is there. Most posts have around 300-500 views. A chunk have a few thousand, and some have 10k-40k.

Like I said I don't have a real business behind this yet but I am not going to think about that yet. My only concern is producing enough content to feed the machine.

Strategy

I don't think I would be able to produce 400 actually unique posts per day, so I will do it a bit differently. I will aim for 50-100 unique posts and then just spoof them until they reach 400. Then all 400 will be posted the same day to IG. Its not ideal to post essentially the same spoofed content multiple times per day, but I am but one man and I can only produce so much content in a day.

Speaking of the content, my method is somewhat simple:

1. Find viral posts on IG (I primarily look at shares)
2. Download them all
3. Copy their on screen captions and songs
4. Use content of myself instead of whatever is on the screen (standing around, sitting, pouring water, etc)
5. Post
6. Spoof

It's pretty simple and I believe it WILL work to get views because I have seen it work on 100s of accounts.

Potential pitfalls and challenges:

The way I see it there are 2 possibly 3 major problems with this strategy:

1. No commercial value

Let's say best case scenario I get 1 viral post per 200 posts of 500k views, which is more or less what I am doing now (sample size 200 let's say). That would be roughly 100 million views over the course of 100 days. That's all well and good, but these views are spread across 100 accounts with basically no brand identity. Would people buy things from a guy who posts memes? If so, what would they buy? My only ideas at the moment are meme t-shirts and something with wide appeal like coffee. Black Rifle Coffee actually did the same strategy I am doing here, where they built their audience first and then sold something that had wide appeal. It's a flimsy plan but better than no plan.

2. Account bans

I don't really view this as much of an issue to be honest because in my experience IG really only cares if you are trying to take people off site to take money from them. And if you are a man posting original video content (i.e. not reposts and not AI) then you are generally safe.

However, I have had my personal account on my phone suspended many times, not sure why, but it has happened and is annoying. But thankfully I don't run all these accounts on my iphone. Still, it could happen.

3. Boring video content

The content I am copying is for the most part just a funny on screen caption with some meaningless video or picture in the background. In other words, the video itself is irrelevant. Sometimes it's a blue sky, sometimes it's a selfie, sometimes its people eating dinner, sometimes its someone on their laptop, etc. 9/10 times it doesn't have anything to do with the caption itself.

I take this to mean that I can put any content in the video and the caption will do most of the heavy lifting. So why put myself? Well, 2 reasons. First one is that I believe that content with a recognizable person will lead to faster growth. And second is that if all goes well, that means that I will have Andrew Tate'd myself in that I have produced 100 accounts that are spamming my content, growing my "personal brand" whatever that will mean at the end of this timeframe.

Still, I am not the most photogenic person and my content is rather boring. Me standing, me sitting, me looking out the window, pouring a glass of water, etc. I'm 40 years old and not an actor and not particularly comfortable being cringe on camera. However since the caption is what will be doing the heavy lifting I am less concerned with this, maybe just a personal insecurity.

Anyway, that's it. I will keep this thread updated with any viral posts (I won't promote my own pages will maybe just give screenshots with the usernames/content blurred out). Happy to answer any questions.
This is a very nice idea! Good luck to your endeavors!
 
thats massive amount of work.figure out the monetization side first though because getting millions of views means little if theres no clear way turn that audience into revenue.
 
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