Buying Instagram account + getting followers

Hi! I hope you’re having a wonderful day/night.

My niche is (my own) art and my old account of 300 followers kept getting reported for no reason, so I no longer can use it. It took me months and buying a lot of shout outs to reach 300 followers. On a new account, I have 123 followers and I barely pull 20-25 likes a post. The only reason why some of my posts have 50 likes is due to me buying a shoutout from another artist with 28k followers.

I’ve seen someone on here advertise “organically grown” accounts by the follow/unfollow method. I took a look at one of the accounts and they sort of seem legit. Is it worth buying these accounts and converting it to my niche?

If it isn’t worth it, what else can I do to grow faster? I’m using different hashtags per post to both prevent being shadowbanned again and to promote exposure. I don’t think shoutouts help.

I’m also trying out other apps like Tik Tok, with little result so far.

My goal is to build a fan base and then eventually start a patreon and maybe go on to YouTube or just sell my designs on clothes.

Thanks for your time!

When you are that small it really is not worth your time or effort to purchase shoutouts as the people looking at your account will not be enticed to follow you. I recommend just doing straight F/UF for a couple of months until 10k, then trade shoutouts with other pages of the same size. Purchasing an account and converting it to your niche will decrease the engagement drastically unless it is similar to what you post. Most times it is not worth converting niches as lots of people unfollow. It should not take you months to reach 300 followers, this means you are doing something wrong. Many can reach that within a week or so, just read up on this forum some more and you are bound to learn. I recommend buying a bot like GMT2 (budget) or Jarvee (much better) that will help you grow tremendously.

If you want exponentially growth, you can do the fan child method with multiple small accounts promoting your main account. That way you will grow!