Paid and 8ball are gone. LARP accounts take the app now.
Those weren’t brands. They were LARP desks with handles people paid to watch. The slot is empty. Become the biggest LARP account on Instagram.
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The paid Instagram accounts named Paid and 8ball are dead. That was the LARP feed.
On Instagram, Paid and 8ball were not shops. They were not “creators.” They were paid accounts, the ones people treated like a show. LARP. A whole life that may or may not have been real, posted like it was, every day.
Those handles are gone. The comments, the lore, the people who talked to the character instead of the operator. All of that is sitting on an empty chair.
Most of the timeline will post a screenshot and move on. That is the tell. When a LARP desk dies, the audience does not disappear. It looks for the next account that can hold the bit without breaking.
Instagram still pays attention to worlds. It just stopped paying those two to run them.