Which Is More Effective? SMM Panels or Automated Tools?

I’ve been a long time lurker here and have always wondered what the best way to grow your social media channels were within the span of six months.

Would you recommend purchasing SMM Panel views/followers/services or investing in a tool such as Jarvee for $30-$90 a month depending on your goals?

Possibly a combination of the two would work well?

For some context, I was thinking about creating a personal page for photography and want to expose my shots to as many people as possible to gain traction.

I don’t want my followers to instantly shoot up to 50k+ within the week on IG and be left behind on Twitter, Facebook, etc by purchasing SMM services. I’ve thought about spreading money evenly across these SMM services but it seems it would come out to about the same as a yearly membership for Jarvee or any other competing service.

What would some of you recommend I do given my example of a personal photography brand/campaign?

Invest in SMM services.
Invest in automated tools.
Invest in both simultaneously.

Thanks!