It's a art installation that allows you to buy likes on
Instagram, Facebook, etc. Really interesting idea, shows how disposable those things are. It's amazing what people will do in order to get a couple of rows in the likes table of a social media website.
Thanks for sharing! I'm btw the guy behind this project.
When Quick Fix is showed in an exhibition a lot of young people try it. Some try it for 1 dollar and come back later with 10 dollar. Since a few months Quick Fix is a lot asked for those 'Instagram museums'. I hope it shows how easy it is to blow up the numbers on social.
Wait, so you mean places like the Museum of Ice Cream and the likes, with installations somewhat obviously targeted at people who want to photograph and post them, want to have this available on-site? I wonder if the people don't realize the irony or if they are beyond the point of seeing anything "wrong" or strange about paying to inflate their like counts.
> ouple of rows in the likes table of a social media website
Don't get me wrong, I very much enjoy this kind of obstinate reductionism and we don't remind ourselves enough that this is what driving lots of our interactions online.
However, I will just add a slight counterpoint in that my bank balance is, at the end of the day, "just a bunch of rows" in a database and, to be perfectly honest, that is somewhat meaningful. :)
I think it tells us something about nature of "art", what it is and what it used to be. Just not sure what.
It's funny how easily can "unsavoury botting and spamming" become an "art installation". Also makes you wonder what exactly is difference between "art" project linked above and like/follower vending machine (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xw8yv3/russian-vending-ma...).
i see art is some amounts of aesthetic rendition and an encapsulation of an idea. Rembrandt might lean more into the former, while e.g. found objects (dada etc) and something like this are more the latter. "bad art" only exists in as far as failing to pose an interesting question and/or reach an audience aesthetically.
personally i think this project does a great job of posing questions about what it means to be successful on social media.
If you left this for a few months, the whole case would fill up with coins, and that arduino certainly isn't going to work so well immersed in coins...
It's a art installation that allows you to buy likes on Instagram, Facebook, etc. Really interesting idea, shows how disposable those things are. It's amazing what people will do in order to get a couple of rows in the likes table of a social media website.