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id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Don't believe everything you see on Instagram. This is Dominique Druckman at a photo shoot that makes it look like she's relaxing at a spa. <br><br>HBO<br><br><br>Dominique Druckman reclines on a tuft of red and white rose petals, her eyes closed, her skin dewy, a tranquil smile tugging at the corners of her perfectly tinted pink lips.  <br>According to her [/tags/instagram/ Instagram] tag, Druckman is recharging at a Hollywood spa, but that couldn't be further from the truth. She's in a backyard, awkwardly propped onto a small plastic kiddie pool filled with flowers. A photographer stands over her, angling for the perfect shot. The kind that makes Druckman's followers believe she's living a luxurious life they could also have ... if they just buy the expensive sunglasses and sneakers she's hawking.<br><br>At an audition for Fake Famous, Chris Bailey tries to show off his influencer potential. <br><br>HBO<br><br>Thing is, many of her followers aren't real people. They're [/tags/bots/ bots]. <br><br>Druckman knows this. She's part of a social experiment chronicled in the compelling [ new HBO documentary Fake Famous], written and directed by veteran technology journalist Nick Bilton. <br><br>For the film -- his first -- Bilton attempts to turn Druckman and two other LA residents with relatively small Instagram followings into social media influencers by purchasing an army of [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fake%20followers fake followers] and bots to "engage" with their posts. The three were chosen from around 4,000 people who responded to a casting call asking one simple question: "Do you want to be famous?"  <br><br>The documentary, on [/tags/hbo/ HBO] now, feels plodding at times (or maybe it's just tedious spending time with fame chasers), but it explores intriguing questions for our influencer-influenced times. Will people look at the trio differently as their follower counts rise? Will their lives change for the better? And  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-bali-tour-du-lich-bali-indonesia-4-ngay-3-dem-tu-ha-noi-tu-sai-gon-hcm-may-bay.html tour bali] in a world where numbers equal fame, what is the true nature (and cost) of fame anyway? <br><br>The questions are worth exploring for anyone who's felt a tinge of envy scrolling through feeds of glamorous getaways and perfectly made-up miens. At least one of the newly anointed influencers discovers a soaring follower count isn't good for his mental health. <br>