Founders Pay Agencies $200K-$500K to Fake Viral AI Launches on X
itsOmSarraf_ · x · 2026-10-23
A thread on AI product launches: the quoted post alleges founders pay slop agencies $200K-$500K (half pocketed) to buy quote-tweets and fake virality for investors — a scam only possible on X, which counts a view the moment a video loads with no 3-second minimum and aggregates views to the main post. The reposter disagrees that X launches are overrated: mediocre launches (100K organic views) still get picked up across the internet faster than anywhere else; jev, higgsfield, wisprflow, cluely, coderabbit, Cursor, Claude Code all went X-native first.
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