I called out corndalorian for crying for zaps a while back. He got triggered and muted me. Some people agreed with me and others thought I was being an asshole. Zap for follow is just as cringe as crying for zaps on memes imo. But there isn’t anything malicious with either. One is making memes for sats and the other is offering sats for follows. If he’s going to pay sats for follows then I guess that’s fine. It’s like paying for ads to get people to follow your instagram. It’s not great quality follows but it’s not malicious. And I think using LLMs to communicate is inauthentic. It’s low quality content but is it scammy? I wouldn’t say that but I would agree that Ryan’s advice to not use those tactics is solid. Eventually people would’ve unfollowed if it really bothered them. There was an npub I had to unfollow recently because all the posts were just asking for sats to feed their kids. I don’t think that’s scammy but it’s just annoying.