So on a website (a digital goods and services market that i wont disclose, it is a public and well known site but i wont go much into detail), you can purchase for as low as 25 euro cents (~0.2 USD) 100 followers on instagram, or 1000 views for the same price and also some people sell 2k likes on posts or reels for the same price.
Out of curiosity i got myself 1000 likes for $0.35 and acually got the stuff, and now for over 3 weeks i still have about 990 likes on said post.

I have tried to search around on how this works and what's going on (not that i would want to recreate it but its seems interesting) but i couldn't find anything anywhere. I suppose its some kind of program making like 1000 bot accounts at once then just making them like or follow or whatever, and i guess with instagrams API you could do it easily but i also didn't find any info on this topic.

Anyone here got any kind of experience or saw how this works? I would like to learn about it if anyone wants to share info in the comments. Thanks for any help!