Me And What Army?
©2026, George J. Irwin. All rights reserved.

Ok, let me see if I have this straight.

I have something that I've written, and there is, realistically, effectively zero chance that anyone will ever see it, because there is simply so much available that it won't ever hit anyone's screen.

And trying to publicize it anywhere is beyond frustration. "The algorithm" doesn't like external links; they want it all in their "walled garden" and much prefer that it incite outrage, which incites more clicks, which results in more advertising being shown to the product—I mean, the valued user.

But you're telling me that you can create buzz for my product—I mean, the stories and essays of various types on my website?

I see... you have at your disposal hundreds if not thousands of entities that can favorably comment on my work, and share it across multiple platforms.

Even better, those entities can comment on each other's comments, and then more entities share those comments and comment on those comments, and so on, and so forth.

And before I know it I have a viral-worthy number of impressions, which will result in even more views because of the Fear Of Missing Out, that is, it will be believed by users all over the landscape that their lives will be lacking if they don't stop to read something I wrote.

Is that the idea?

How, pray tell, do you do that?

Ah, of course, modern technology is harnessed to make this possible.

What can you tell me about these entities?

Oh, I see, they're bots. No humans required.

So what you mean here is that you'll program a bunch of bots to cite my item of writing, and then other bots will favorably comment on the citation, and then other bots will share the favorable comment, and then still more bots will favorably comment on the share, and so on and so on, and with all this commenting and sharing going on, there is no doubt that some actual humans will pick up on this "trend creation," and before I know it I will have some actual human traffic to my pitiful little site, thanks to this army of bots?

Is that how it's supposed to work? What am I missing here?

It seems like what I might be missing is the human interaction? What guarantees are there that the army of bots employed on my behalf won't be overmatched, overwhelmed, swamped by a bigger army of bots which are employed to, say, provide a "trend creation" to, for example, some genetically gifted influencer who wants to sell something—with, without question, the utmost integrity and sincerity? And by the way, can't this also be deployed for someone who wants to incite outrage?

Yeah, that's what I thought. And how much does this cost, anyway?

Well, feel free to get those bots right on that fundraising program...




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