Week 7 Session: Crit: Engagement Farming
Take one account, feed, or creator and run a growth-loop audit to diagnose whether their posting behaviour is involuted, and by whose metric
19 April 2027
Before the session#
Pick a public account or feed and instrument it: track posting cadence and engagement over several weeks. Bring a dataset, not an impression.
In the session#
Pitch the diagnosis and defend it against the room’s counter-read on the same funnel — someone will have an alternative attribution that isn’t involution.
Afterwards#
The strongest diagnoses, and the strongest counter-attributions, both get added to the running class list from week 3.
The spec
What you bring to the session. Written so a reader can tell whether it has been met without asking you.
- you can name the specific north-star metric your subject's growth loop appears to be optimising for
- you can specify the falsification criteria that would overturn your diagnosis
Teaching team
- Aaron Jin — Convenor, Lecturer & Tutor; 卷王 (Involution King)