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Fake Facebook Likes

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OTBass

Jan 2, 2012
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Cleveland, OH
#1
Thought I'd share this...

Saw an ad for a metal band. I'm not a metal guy but ok... the songs were good quality... so I went to their Facebook page; whoa 6000 likes!!! For a local band that's pretty big.

I got excited and threw my whole sales pitch at them. Got an audition and nailed it. I thought I was finally going to be in a popular band.

Well it was about that time I got suspicious. 6000 likes and yet they were playing Sunday shows at Joebob's Bar out in Nowheretown. Hmmm.

I looked into it and here just over a month ago they had something around 60 likes. Then all of a sudden they were scoring several hundred a day!! And their biggest city... somewhere in the Philippines! Smells like scam.

Apparently you can pay for FB likes. These guys had to have done that. How freaking lame.

I quit immediately.
 
#2
OTBass said:
Thought I'd share this...

Saw an ad for a metal band. I'm not a metal guy but ok... the songs were good quality... so I went to their Facebook page; whoa 6000 likes!!! For a local band that's pretty big.

I got excited and threw my whole sales pitch at them. Got an audition and nailed it. I thought I was finally going to be in a popular band.

Well it was about that time I got suspicious. 6000 likes and yet they were playing Sunday shows at Joebob's Bar out in Nowheretown. Hmmm.

I looked into it and here just over a month ago they had something around 60 likes. Then all of a sudden they were scoring several hundred a day!! And their biggest city... somewhere in the Philippines! Smells like scam.

Apparently you can pay for FB likes. These guys had to have done that. How freaking lame.

I quit immediately.
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There are companies who sell 5000+ likes for $100-200
 
#4
It was lame when it started on myspace.
It was lame when bands started to send links to their EPKs or singles, and required a LIKE in order to preview them.
It was lame when bands would snipe your band website's guestbook for email addresses to add to their mailing list.
It was lame when bands used to snag pages from your mailing list at shows.
 
#5
Lame? Perhaps.

Not so lame I'd quit a band over it.

It's also lame that some people, even venues will blindly judge a band on some arbitrary number like that as an indication of whether a band is good or hire-able or not rather than taking a couple minutes and listening to the music.

That's not so much to justify the band's action, but just to point out some of the absurdity that runs in this business. I wouldn't like it and I might hint at my disapproval of it by suggesting more genuine approaches to things. But I'd save walking out for something serious like drug usage, non-committal issues, girlfriend interference, psychological problems etc...
 
#6
the Arsonaut said:
It was lame when it started on myspace.
It was lame when bands started to send links to their EPKs or singles, and required a LIKE in order to preview them.
It was lame when bands would snipe your band website's guestbook for email addresses to add to their mailing list.
It was lame when bands used to snag pages from your mailing list at shows.
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But I thought only Corporate America was bad.
Your right. It is lame and deceitful.
 
#8
I've done a similar thing.

Never bought likes. However, I have gone on pages where they'll do what they call a ladder. The host page, with a couple thousand fans, will announce the ladder and have featured bands. You like the featured bands, tag your band in the comments, and like 10 above and below.

Took us from 400 to 1,200 in a little over a month.

For every hundred of those I cheated, I gained a couple people who were actually interested in the music. Having over 1,000 likes helped us get gigs. It made us seem more impressive to people who checked us out immediately.

If you're not cheating and taking advantage of every possible avenue, you're not trying.
 
#9
It is lame, but it tells me something. These guys are interested and committed to some degree.

This forum is full of rants about band members that don't ever seem to be engaged. At least these guys have some kind of drive.

It is a shame that they are being pushed to stoop this low, but they are willing to go the distance, it seems. Maybe you should join back up?
 
#10
OTBass said:
Thought I'd share this...

Saw an ad for a metal band. I'm not a metal guy but ok... the songs were good quality... so I went to their Facebook page; whoa 6000 likes!!! For a local band that's pretty big.

I got excited and threw my whole sales pitch at them. Got an audition and nailed it. I thought I was finally going to be in a popular band.

Well it was about that time I got suspicious. 6000 likes and yet they were playing Sunday shows at Joebob's Bar out in Nowheretown. Hmmm.

I looked into it and here just over a month ago they had something around 60 likes. Then all of a sudden they were scoring several hundred a day!! And their biggest city... somewhere in the Philippines! Smells like scam.

Apparently you can pay for FB likes. These guys had to have done that. How freaking lame.

I quit immediately.
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Ya ... you can get fake twitter followers as well ...
 
#13
My band picked up a few dozen likes over the course of a weekend a couple of weeks ago. We didn't buy them but they don't look legitimate to me - new likes from disparate places like the American mid-west, eastern Europe and the Philippines all at the same time for a small unsigned band from the south coast of England who are accustomed to playing to 6 people and a dog.

Strange indeed.
 
#16
Buying FB & youtube likes/views is the norm here. So much so that it doesn't even get recognized as anything special. Oh, your band has 70,xxx views of your video? neat. Doesn't mean anyone actually goes to the bands 7 o'clock wednesday night gig.

Both of my bands are guilty, they (the BL) did it without my knowledge.... I expressed my dissatisfaction with the idea once I saw what was going on.
 
#17
Sooo..."everyone's doing it" okay. Bravo.

Why can't you guys just get hooked on drugs, I mean, all the really cool bands do it.

I would have to say that the band is focusing on the wrong things.
My guess is that they are having issues with self-esteem. Could I suggest maybe clearasil or more vitamin C in their diet?

Who cares how you get your foot in the door with a club or promoter...if you don't deliver, you will not be coming back.
Unless you end up with a lot of something on your chin.
 
#19
oniman7 said:
I've done a similar thing.

Never bought likes. However, I have gone on pages where they'll do what they call a ladder. The host page, with a couple thousand fans, will announce the ladder and have featured bands. You like the featured bands, tag your band in the comments, and like 10 above and below.

Took us from 400 to 1,200 in a little over a month.

For every hundred of those I cheated, I gained a couple people who were actually interested in the music. Having over 1,000 likes helped us get gigs. It made us seem more impressive to people who checked us out immediately.

If you're not cheating and taking advantage of every possible avenue, you're not trying.
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I'd rather have real fans. more power to you tho.
 

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