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Engagement Farming
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diff --git a/wiki/memes/engagement-farming.md b/wiki/memes/engagement-farming.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b3bdde03 @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +--- +title: Engagement Farming +type: meme +status: confirmed +sources: + - raw/news/bitcoin-pleb-astounded-after-dan-held-steals-his-tweat.json + - raw/news/nic-carter-finds-new-found-hobby-floating-in-the-dead-sea-tweeting-about-bitcoin-maximalis.json + - raw/news/bitcoiners-posting-about-being-shadowbanned-for-engagement-stunned-to-find-out-in-twitter-.json + - raw/news/cia-director-insists-jason-lowerys-engagement-is-organic.json +--- + +**Engagement farming** is the cultivation of likes, replies, and quote tweets as a cash crop of [[orgs/bitcoin-twitter|Bitcoin Twitter]]. In Bugleverse canon it is both an industry and a motive for crime. + +## Documented practices (January 2023) + +- **Theft-based farming.** [[characters/dan-held|Dan Held]]'s conviction for [[bits/tweet-theft|tweet theft]] established that stealing 1,000 plebs' tweets is farming with someone else's seed; the court repurposed his "expertise on social media to boost engagement" into a reparations instrument ([[news/bitcoin-pleb-astounded-after-dan-held-steals-his-tweat|Dan Held Ordered By Judge To Pay Reparations]]). +- **Feud-based farming.** The [[characters/nic-carter|Nic Carter]] maximalism feud was, per The Bugle, "a great opportunity for engagement farming" on both sides: [[characters/coinicarus|@Coinicarus]] harvested engagement warning investors off "The Saltiest Sea Dog," while Carter enjoyed his salt and dogpilers shared camaraderie ([[news/nic-carter-finds-new-found-hobby-floating-in-the-dead-sea-tweeting-about-bitcoin-maximalists|Nic Carter Finds New Found Hobby]]). +- **Grievance-based farming.** [[characters/matt-taibbi|Matt Taibbi]]'s Twitter Files review gave the practice federal-adjacent documentation: [[orgs/bitcoin-twitter|Bitcoin Twitter]]'s perennial [[bits/shadowban-complaints|shadowban complaints]] were found to be not suppression but "some sort of engagement farming technique" — posts about being silenced that garnered immense engagement ([[news/bitcoiners-posting-about-being-shadowbanned-for-engagement-stunned-to-find-out-in-twitter-files-they-werent-targeted|Bitcoiners Stunned To Find Out They Weren't Targeted]]). + +## Documented practices (March 2023) + +- **State-certified organic.** [[characters/jason-lowery|Jason Lowery]]'s engagement is the only crop in the record to carry federal authentication: when critics questioned how the "Space Spook" came from nowhere to dominate [[orgs/bitcoin-twitter|Bitcoin Twitter]], CIA Director [[characters/william-burns|William J. Burns]] certified by press release that "all of Jason's engagement on social media is organic" ([[news/cia-director-insists-jason-lowerys-engagement-is-organic|CIA Director Insists Jason Lowery's Engagement Is Organic]]). The certification did not settle whether organic farming had occurred; see [[storylines/softwar|The Softwar Rollout]]. + +> irl: "Engagement farming" is genuine social-media slang; both underlying dramas (Held's tweet reposting, Carter's maximalist feud) were real early-2023 Bitcoin Twitter events.