"Unethical" AI TikTok Traffic Tactic?

These AI-generated Influencer organic growth posts are getting out of hand!

I ran across this AI-generated TikTok account today randomly with 193 posts...

....and it reminded me of what some called 2021's most "unethical" Direct Response YouTube ad campaign…

(More details in this VidTao blog post)

To summarize, remember those “Buddha Power” ads from 2020/2021?

(watch the full ad here in this tweet)

These ads were scaling like crazy. Dozens of ads with >1M paid views:

(Screenshot from old VidTao interface)

The video format is always the same: (actor talking in front of a green screen background, product b-roll, etc.)

The emotional story arc is always the same:

The product itself was something you could find for $5 on Wish:

But thanks to some storytelling fairy dust?

Buddha Power was able to sell these for $30:

Which is why it's so interesting to see how this random AI influencer account is doing the same thing, with a different format.

Here is their best performing organic post, with 750k+ views:

All 193 posts follow the same format:

Some kind of "unexpected pregnancy" related "hook" / storyline, and eventually we get to the actual marketing payload, ~10 slides deep:

The product is woven into the story in the same way, every time.

Now you're probably asking...

"Does this actually drive results?"

Which is why it's interesting to take a quick peek at Google Trends for the terms mentioned in this particular slide:

The most "viral" post so far?

Launched Mar 1.

With that spike early/mid March, seems like there is some kind of proof of concept here…

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