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Botwatch 90!!!! MLM is dying but we are still watching and sadly there are still many victims. 99.6% of participants in these “legal” schemes lose money but they are STILL being promised the world by MLM. And ‘coaching’ scams are just as bad!

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Spongebobette · 15/10/2025 11:49

New Fred

welcome one and all to bot watching- where we pint out the lies and manipulation by ‘bots’ - those involved in network marketing, coaching etc etc

there is no magic money tree so don’t be fooled!

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YouOKHun · 26/01/2026 14:57

@Crikeyalmighty shilling is absolutely a central pillar of MLM success, not just self purchases to get promotion (all of the lower bots) but also false promotion (Scot bot posing as a customer on social media and asking Headband about ordering collagen “because it’s so amazing”.). Then there is shilling the lifestyle by using other income to create the look of success and buy position then crediting the MLM, or implying the link. Castle is a prime example of this and FLP helped her in this dishonest representation too.

Crikeyalmighty · 26/01/2026 16:34

@YouOKHun I honestly didn’t know that term - I’ve learnt something new. Incredibly dishonest stuff - although I’m sure they would just say it’s fake it till you make it

user1471446301 · 27/01/2026 09:12

Does anyone remember a bot Yawns EX BFF's SIL? surname is easy a marine crustation which likes to attach itself (quite an apt name tbf like our bloodsucker) first name a song by the Human League "Hello xxx".

She did a tiktok stint for planty plasters if you remember, well now she's gone full ticktok and there seems no mention of her Aloeshilling on her FB. One of the products shes flogging shitagit gummies to give her energy and vitamins now shes a half century old, they must be alot cheaper than FL and she must be thinking she will earn more commision via tiktok and not FL I wonder how EX BFF feels about that as she must have been in her downline, a bit awks I bet. Another one who has left a sinking shit.

QueenieBaxtersrougepot · 27/01/2026 12:40

@user1471446301 …….Known as Crustacean Bot back in the day.

YouOKHun · 27/01/2026 12:41

@user1471446301 If my memory serves me correctly I think Crustacean Bot was one of the UK bots along with Yawn who was mentioned in Truth in Advertising’s report on FLP’s income claims in 2024. I seem to remember that by the time an example of one of her claims was featured in that report it looked like she had stopped doing FLP or was backing out of it but I can’t remember if it seemed as if she was pushed out.

It was clear that the American bosses reacted to the report with Mr Compliance issuing a flurry of defences and instructions to bots to cover their tracks better do things differently. I do wonder how much of a rap on the knuckles they gave Scamaloupolis which he then passed on to Bloodsucker to try “mentoring” Yawn. After that Uber and Pink Hair were managing the problem. Perhaps it provided them with an opportunity to cut Yawn out and Crustacean was just collateral damage?

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user1471446301 · 27/01/2026 14:25

YouOKHun · 27/01/2026 12:41

@user1471446301 If my memory serves me correctly I think Crustacean Bot was one of the UK bots along with Yawn who was mentioned in Truth in Advertising’s report on FLP’s income claims in 2024. I seem to remember that by the time an example of one of her claims was featured in that report it looked like she had stopped doing FLP or was backing out of it but I can’t remember if it seemed as if she was pushed out.

It was clear that the American bosses reacted to the report with Mr Compliance issuing a flurry of defences and instructions to bots to cover their tracks better do things differently. I do wonder how much of a rap on the knuckles they gave Scamaloupolis which he then passed on to Bloodsucker to try “mentoring” Yawn. After that Uber and Pink Hair were managing the problem. Perhaps it provided them with an opportunity to cut Yawn out and Crustacean was just collateral damage?

edited for various typos!

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Ah yes, I think you must be right. Talking of Crustacean and living in sunnier climes I was suprised to see LanzaBot on the leaderboards at unsuccessful day so she is still chugging away.

dickiedavisthunderthighs · 27/01/2026 16:20

I get the feeling that you only need to sell three bottles of gloop a year to make it onto an FL leaderboard these days.
God I'd love to stick the boot in on Mrs BoringName's FB post.

YouOKHun · 27/01/2026 17:34

You and me both @dickiedavisthunderthighs
Interesting post from one high up bot which implies the Borings have been under attack from “people trying to drag them down”. I wonder if they’ve just come up against the rules that apply to everyone such as “live within your means”, “make sure your accounting is sensible”, don’t base your earnings on a dishonest and diminishing business model”.

A beautiful reminder that quiet strength and real character will never be denied. No matter who tries to drag you down to their level, you’ve proven that you’ll always rise above with grace. Massive congrats to Mr Boring

YouOKHun · 27/01/2026 21:56

Today, we went to the Jorvik Viking centre in York... we did the tourist thing! It was fab...As we walked around we looked in a cabinet to see the hundreds of things they found in archeological digs and we saw ...
Wait for it ...

A poo

I mean a few thoughts sprang to mind. This was 970 AD... What in the world were they eating that a poop from over 1000 years ago is still in tact And can you imagine being "on the other side" and thinking Of all the things they found of mine...a turd is what's sat in that museum

I couldn't stop laughing! Is it me or would you be gutted too if that was your legacy?!”

I can think of a worse legacy Castle. One involving the aftermath of sponging, grifting, lying and exploiting your own children. Now that’s a really shit legacy.

Spongebobette · 27/01/2026 23:00

She’s desperate for content and thinks this is an amusing observation

ridiculous woman

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YouOKHun · 27/01/2026 23:35

@Spongebobette she’s ridiculous.

YouOKHun · 27/01/2026 23:40

@HotAsSatansBalls WW’s audience numbers have dipped since the heady days of early January when his audience peaked at 13, but look how his Basil has come on!

Botwatch 90!!!! MLM is dying but we are still watching and sadly there are still many victims. 99.6% of participants in these “legal” schemes lose money but they are STILL being promised the world by MLM. And ‘coaching’ scams are just as bad!
HotAsSatansBalls · 27/01/2026 23:54

😆 @YouOKHun it looks like Basil’s come on the curtains if you zoom in closer!

Justdancevance · 28/01/2026 00:05

Castle is just awful, but equally awful is finish on the new bathroom, look at where the ‘micro-cement’ meets the ceiling. I don’t know why she’s posting videos, I couldn’t lie in a bath and look up at it, much less be posting about it to highlight her husband’s skills.

Spongebobette · 28/01/2026 01:41

I don’t KNOW what PROBLEM I need to SOLVE in my LIFE and anyway what STRUCTURE is there that can solve EVERY problem by taking ACTION and putting the WORK in to get SUCCESS

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YouOKHun · 28/01/2026 08:30

@Spongebobette eh??

Spongebobette · 28/01/2026 08:31

Join my GROUP where I am NOT the guru and TAKE ACTION

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YouOKHun · 28/01/2026 10:00

Is that the group with 500+ active members with almost no interaction from any of them (on instagram at least)? I suspect the STRUCTURE is built on purchased followers with the not-a-GURU and Techie spending their days fiddling around with Canva and focussing on the handful of clients they’ve got who are only there because they need techie to help them set up a one page website. Yawn is a SPARE PART. I expect the 666 Star Jumping on the Sofa club has already peaked too.

The ACTION is all about scrabbling around trying to come up with another angle on exactly the same well worn, lightweight Hun-spun content. I’m exhausted just thinking about the internal panic Yawn must have and all the scrabbling around. She has a large audience of toxic ex-colleagues she has to convince that it’s all going swimmingly and I can’t help thinking that convincing ex-BFF, Uber etc that life is great is actually more of a priority than making money, because that’s clear a lost cause.

Spongebobette · 28/01/2026 11:55

No I was (lamely) attempting to mimic Weird Willy

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Spongebobette · 28/01/2026 12:15

YouOKHun · 28/01/2026 10:00

Is that the group with 500+ active members with almost no interaction from any of them (on instagram at least)? I suspect the STRUCTURE is built on purchased followers with the not-a-GURU and Techie spending their days fiddling around with Canva and focussing on the handful of clients they’ve got who are only there because they need techie to help them set up a one page website. Yawn is a SPARE PART. I expect the 666 Star Jumping on the Sofa club has already peaked too.

The ACTION is all about scrabbling around trying to come up with another angle on exactly the same well worn, lightweight Hun-spun content. I’m exhausted just thinking about the internal panic Yawn must have and all the scrabbling around. She has a large audience of toxic ex-colleagues she has to convince that it’s all going swimmingly and I can’t help thinking that convincing ex-BFF, Uber etc that life is great is actually more of a priority than making money, because that’s clear a lost cause.

Absolutely agree that her posts are aimed at the ‘toxic’ ex FL lot

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Crikeyalmighty · 28/01/2026 14:16

Spongebobette · 28/01/2026 12:15

Absolutely agree that her posts are aimed at the ‘toxic’ ex FL lot

Yep, I think too they are mainly aimed at the people she has moved on from .

YouOKHun · 28/01/2026 15:14

@Spongebobetteha, that shows how interchangeable the bot/coach output is (and not that I am hard of thinking!). That could have been any one of them. Of course ACTION is a Weird Willy fav word, how silly of me. He flings it about while modelling a fine example of INACTION on various fronts. It looks like there’s not much ACTION among the followers either, not enough to tap the “like” button and certainly not enough to comment.

He clearly has a job he says he likes in sales (I think in retail). He’d be better off sticking with that but he clearly believes he is destined for better things. I bet if he was honest with himself the happier periods over the last few years have been when employed with the stability, structure, real life human contact and regular money it provides. What’s the definition of “insanity” again? Repeating the same mistake again and again and expecting different results.

Spongebobette · 28/01/2026 15:43

but but but he’s destined for much bigger things than a regular boring job!!!

delusions of grandeur/ wanting to be IMPORTANT

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dickiedavisthunderthighs · 28/01/2026 16:56

He bangs on about being 'Head of Action Learning' at the BBC about a millennia ago, but when I delved into it, he'd been promoted from some lowly HR role and was only HOAL for about six months before they removed the role completely.

dickiedavisthunderthighs · 28/01/2026 16:57

Oh, and SoftFocusBot reckons she makes five figs a month from a $9.95 a month outlay which is spectacular bollocks and will be sent to the ASA by me.

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