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I mean I'm not sure it's a meme - this guy literally got rich doing it, to a point where he's selling "self guide" courses on how to do this:

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025-11-16/kin...

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People selling get rich guides did not get rich using the method they describe. But I don't doubt a lot of people try, with or without guides to help them.

Well I think both things can be true. I imagine he made a lot of money doing it, then eventually that well dried up for whatever reason, so he started selling courses (which are worthless because his method clearly doesn't work or he would just keep doing it)

Definitely a real thing, I meant it was a meme in the sense that at one point almost everyone was getting accused of being Indian (and subsequently having to refute it) in a partly humorous but also partly serious way

You know what? I ain't even mad. 300k is life-changing money in Sri Lanka.

Some highlights:

> The move made him a mint — and Sam was soon raking in thousands of dollars a month.

> “I was spending maybe 30 to 50 minutes of my day, and I was making good money for a medical student,” he recalled.

> He said he also attempted to make a liberal counterpart for Hart on Instagram, but “Democrats know that it’s AI slop, so they don’t engage as much,” he said.

The effort-to-profit ratio is so insane that you almost can't blame them for turning the internet into such toxic wasteland.

There's also the fact that the media and a large cadre of activists in the targeted countries already provide the 'democrat' standpoint which makes an AI simulacrum less noticeable as well as less appealing. I'd say that is a far more likely explanation than 'democrats know it is AI slop' which sounds a lot like wishful thinking by 'democrats'.

I was wondering how people monetised these things. Selling t-shirts and AI porn is not what I expected.

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