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> Basically you get meme accounts to do a promotion of a profile that is currently private, and all the followers to a private profile get queued up, you can queue them up in the thousands or hundreds of thousands.

I'm confused, why is it easier to get people to line up to follow a private account based on...nothing?

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Curiosity. Intrigue. Boredom - well not necessarily, it is a form of entertainment for the instagram culture.

There is also silly user experience on instagram where you can share photos from a private profile to your friend but your friend can't see it at all unless they request to follow the profile too. Some content types get this behavior, more like animals, tropical landscape photography. Sometimes women/models, but thats more of a personal fawning.

Based on an endorsement from a page they already follow. Private meme accounts with tens of thousands of followers or more are not uncommon, so it's not especially suspicious

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