Also, you have brand new Forever Bot who is going to be a billionaire as long as she keeps up with her mindset training, her vision board, and working hard.
She's not selling anything, goes to Upline, Upline tells her to make a post about a pamper evening. That doesn't work. Upline tells her to work harder and book a stall at a fete, Bot doesn't make her stall money back.
Bot isn't selling, can't afford to buy the products to keep her position and hasn't managed to recruit anyone. None of her friends respond to her posts and everyone at the school gates and on facebook is avoiding her. Upline is too busy desperately recruiting new people and can't be bothered with Bot anymore as after she first joined she hasn't made Upline any money. Upline stops responding to Bot's PM's. Bot is sad, frustrated and feels like she has failed.
Bot has an idea, Bot turns to google, maybe types in 'not making money in Forever Living' The second result is the Daily Mail 'Can you really earn £350,000 a year selling aloe vera?' article. Bot recognises that the Daily Mail is an esteemed publication full of truth and reads the story.
"Could this shining example of journalism in print form be wrong?" thinks Bot. Bot googles some more, different search terms, finding bad things until she happens upon a blog post laying out the whole scheme and that she never had a chance of making money. Bot doesn't feel so good, Bot quietly removes all things Forever Living from facebook and never mentions it again. Bot's friends are just grateful they have Bot back as a friend.
In that scenario Bot was still a victim, she still lost money, but likely got out sooner than she otherwise would have done. Also less likely to jump into another MLM and be a bot elsewhere.
This is also why the blogs and facebook pages and groups work nicely together. Blogs always rank high on google as long as words and phrases match what someone is likely to search for, and facebook is good for friends sharing stuff and someone seeing it and learning from it.
Uplines have a far better chance of keeping a bot and using cult like tactics to get them to stay in if they live nearby. A great example is the weekly 'presentations' held by Uber, Yawn, et al. You can't weekly present a nice cult like tactic or 27 when your victim lives in a different part of the country. Video conferencing helps, but it's nothing like whipping a crowd, however small, into a frenzy.
The bad thing about that is that there are a lot less people in a small area of the country with a higher than average number of top uplines than in the rest of the country. The small area will have been saturated already with new bots failing instantly while you are running out of people to recruit.
The correct terminology for the long term forecast for the sustainability of doing this is 'It's going to go tits up'. Look at @Toobusytowee blog post for proof of that.