Not sure if that s dead, but saturated for sure, to grow your audiance to 1m followers using massplanner you need to spend around 1 year and in the end the number of leads you get from IG is not the greatest as the accounts have low numbers and not trustworthy, using a paid system like ppv makes more sense when you consider the time you spend and legit. On IG as far as I see you need to create high quality accounts and there should be more than a few then it should work.
I am also dubious about the methods, for eg
create 100 accounts on instagram, scrape images off other accounts start building folllowers .. 100 accounts should be pointing at least 20 different anonymous websites and anonymous blogs ( considering 5 accounts per website ) created on different people s names each site should look legit and trustworthy.. We still need to try using trends seo and other various methods
I believe making money is related to enjoying the work you do and give the best quality otherwise you create a pile of shit and waste yours and everybodys time ..