15,000 followers and zero likes. What do you think of this account?
When I receive free inquiries about managing note accounts,
I sometimes research the competitors in the other person's field.
The other day, while handling an inquiry for someone,
“Overseas Sales”I was researching that genre when a certain account caught my eye.
Yoshikazu Nakajima. CEO of Cospa Technologies.
Overseas sales & overseas customer development support.
Over 15,000 note followers.
The profile features a spectacular background.
The lead to corporate services is also well-established.
At first glance, it looks like a top account in this field.
But when I opened the articles, I felt something was off.
The numbers don't add up.
Try searching for “Overseas Sales” on note yourself.
Mr. Nakajima's account appears at the top of the creator list.
With over 15,000 followers, it's by far the highest.
It's in a different league from the second place and below.
But look at the list of popular articles.
Not a single one of Mr. Nakajima's articles is included.
What's lined up in the popular articles are
articles by other creators with dozens to hundreds of followers.
If the 15,000 followers were real,
there's no way they wouldn't be in the popular articles.
Furthermore, when I opened a few of Mr. Nakajima's articles, this was the state they were in.
There are articles that have zero likes even though eight months have passed since they were posted.
It's not just one or two, but several.
Take a look at the actual screenshots.
Most of the articles have zero likes.
One or two likes.
At most, a few.
This is an account with 15,000 followers.
If you have 15,000 followers,
when you post an article, it flows into the followers' timelines.
Some of them will open and read it.
Once they read it, some will press the like button.
This is how a normal account behaves.
15,000 followers and zero likes.
What kind of state do you think this is?
There are no humans behind the followers.
The answer is simple.
There are no humans behind those followers.
The follower count exists, but
there are no humans behind those numbers reading the articles.
That is why no matter what article is posted, no one reads it.
No likes are given.
No comments are left.
This is the result of buying followers.
You pay money to buy a follower count.
It looks impressive on the surface.
People who see the profile might think, 'This is an amazing person.'
But the moment an article is posted, the mask slips.
Even though the article is supposedly written for 15,000 people,
no one reads it.
No one clicks like.
The silence continues for eight months.
This is not a 'state of having many followers,' but rather
a 'state where it is guaranteed that no one will read it'.
A deeper problem
The problem with buying followers is not just about 'whether you get caught.'
The note algorithm looks at
not just the number of likes,
but also dwell time,
read completion rate,
like rate,
and initial reactions.
Articles that have many followers but are read by no one
are judged by the algorithm as'valueless content'.
In other words, the more followers you buy,
the less your articles will be displayed.
They won't appear in recommendations.
They won't rank higher in searches.
An account with no humans behind its followers is,
in terms of the note algorithm,the same as non-existent.
In January 2025, note entered into a capital and business alliance with Google,
and is developing AI-driven content review and risk detection features.
Unnatural follower counts,
abnormally low engagement rates.
There is no way the AI would fail to notice such accounts.
In February 2026,
the largest management community on note was immediately banned and permanently expelled for mass-producing accounts and manipulating follows.
Why do such accounts exist?
There is only one reason.
'Because they wanted to look bigger'.
If you have many followers, you are trusted.
If you are trusted, your services will sell.
That line of thinking itself is not wrong.
However,
fake trust only produces fake results.
There is a deeper problem here.
If your company were listed as a business partner on the site of someone whose track record looks suspicious to everyone, what would you think?
Wouldn't you think, "They do business with a company like that?"
It is a matter that affects your own company's credibility.
What would you think if it were you?
Think about it.
Someone who is doing the worst possible things algorithmically is calling themselves a marketing professional.
Someone who cannot even properly grow their own account is saying they will grow others' accounts.
Don't you feel a contradiction there?
And in today's world,
if you ask AI, you can immediately tell if an account's numbers are abnormal.
15,000 followers and zero likes.
If you ask AI, "Are these numbers normal?"
It will immediately reply, "They are abnormal." Anyone can check this right now.
Accounts that engage in bad algorithmic behavior
have no asset value.
They have no intention of growing them long-term.
That is precisely why they
sell them off and run away while they still can.
If they get banned, they start a new account,
buy followers again,
talk about their track record,
and sell something with no substance.
They repeat that.
In other words, this is the structure.
Create a disposable account,
dress it up just on the surface,
fake the trust,
sell the service,
and recreate it once banned.
And there are people spreading this method as "know-how."
What happens to the accounts of people who bought those services?
Accounts grown with the same method
are similarly disliked by the algorithm,
similarly stop being read,
and similarly carry the risk of being banned.
You are paying money to destroy your own account.
If an account with 15,000 followers
says, "I will support your overseas sales,"
it might look trustworthy if you only look at the numbers.
But if no one is reading the articles on that account,
you will never get any work requests from it.
It is the same as an empty store that just looks impressive.
Is your account okay?
Even if you haven't bought followers,
there are many accounts that have the same structural problems.
As a result of increasing followers through follow-for-follow,
isn't your account in a state where there are no "people who read articles" behind those followers?
The way to check is simple.
Look at your follower count and your like count.
An account grown with real followers
gets likes equal to 8-10% of its follower count.
If you have 500 followers, it is a healthy state to have 40-50 likes per article.
Accounts built through follow-for-follow see their like rate drop to 2% or less.
If you have 500 followers but get 10 or fewer likes each time,
the majority of your followers are not reading your articles.
Accounts that have purchased followers will have a like rate of almost zero.
Yoshikazu Nakajima, the person featured this time,
calls himself a professional in overseas sales and overseas customer development support,
holds the title of CEO of Cospa Technologies,
and has over 15,000 followers.
He publishes articles on that account, and they get 0 to 2 likes.
The like rate is 0.013%.
In other words, it reaches 10,000 people and gets one reaction.
It reaches 1,000 people and gets zero reactions.
This is the reality of an account belonging to someone who calls themselves a marketing professional.
What is a real follower?
A real follower is someone who sees your articles or profile and
decides to follow you on their own because they think, 'I want to read more of this person's articles.'
These people will come to read your articles when you publish them.
If they are interesting, they will press like. They will also comment.
If they are good, they will also buy paid articles.
And then, the note algorithm evaluates the article as 'being read,'
which brings in even more new readers.
Whether there are actual human beings behind the followers.
In the end, this is everything.
What did you all think about the account I featured today?
Please let me know in the comments.
All the screenshots posted in this article have links embedded in them. If you are interested, you can click on the images to
check the corresponding accounts and articles directly.
There is absolutely no slander written in this article.
Everything written is an objective fact.
Follower count, like count, posting date, job title. Everything is public information,
and you can all check it right now.
After checking, please judge for yourselves what you think.
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This person's profile says '50,000+ total SNS followers.' I checked all their other SNS accounts besides note. The results were even more shocking.
P.S.
I run a note management agency.
I do not follow or follow back.
I do not mass-produce accounts.
I manage accounts to create a state where there are actual human beings behind the followers.
The details are summarized in this article.
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