How to identify a Follow-Bot
I think it's been a few weeks, I forget how many weeks, but these bots are really starting to annoy me. And yes, I know you're shitty bots, you shitty bots!?
I ban these bots, even if I get 10-20 new "followers" per day. I don't want them as followers. I know that many bots are deleted within a day, but many bots are never deleted or only deleted after weeks/months(from tumblr? I donβt know).
Oh yes, if these bots weren't bots but real followers, that would be a dream, I'm sure I'd already have over 500 followers v-v.
For those who may think they're getting followers lately, check them out for following stuff. Beware, there are several waves of bots, hence different types:
What they all have in common: Women as profile picture!
1. Type Bot: These are already a bit older and hardly represented. This type of Bot has a lot of women's pictures on their Tumblr pages, but of different ones, which they probably steal from the internet and just want to keep their page more "trusted". Under the pictures there is something like "Do you want to meet me?" or "I'm Signal and I'm waiting for you" with a link. (NEVER CLICK ON THE LINK! Unless you want viruses!) Sometimes the link is also in the short description of the blog. They also have normal female names and surnames, but always have three numbers after their names. Something like: Julie_White357, Annarose731 or Cassandra_Johnson412.
2. Type Bot: Is very common right now. Empty blog, not a single post. In the short description, however, there is a scheme that they all have the same. Emotes with words. Between each word there is a random emote. It is also said where she supposedly lives, that she is Signal and what she likes (mostly men or both). Example: π Signal π» Both π Texas π Julia πΈ OR πΈπ»π Anna, Signal, Like Mens, lives in Ohio π°π΄πΏ The name still has numbers at the end, this time it can be only 2 numbers. In addition, the name can now also consist of random words (not only English) or letters instead of women's names. Example: Jullendangs45, Annarasan459, Julanlian750, Hgaiglean458 or Annawhite75.
3. Type Bot: Like type 2, but without a short description. Important! Of course, there are also real blogs that have their RL name as a blog name, or people who have numbers behind their blog. But you quickly get a sense of who is a Bot and who is not. What exactly do the bots do? Back then they reblogged stuff and then put their links in reblogs next to naked pictures or wrote a DM to you with something like "Hey, I'm a signal girl looking for a hot night! *link*"
Today they do nothing but annoy you and maybe find someone who might be stupid enough to click on a link (although there is no link, but maybe if you write to them they will send you a link).
