An excellent thread on content scraping accounts & why they're lousy. They post uncredited photos of cats or birds or landscapes & rack up followers for nefarious purposes.

You can block them all with this great list! (Hit subscribe at the top & choose Mute or Block)
https://bsky.app/profile/contentscrapers.bsky.social/lists/3lbqvvdsz7p2y
Reposted from rahaeli
Once they have a large enough audience, they either directly sell the account to someone who wants a pre-built audience, or sell it to a grey-market account resale marketplace for someone else to resell it.

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