06/24/2026
Jay spent a chunk of last month doing something a little obsessive. He kept seeing case studies from LinkedIn coaching programs where someone with way fewer followers than him was pulling 200 comments per post, and the numbers just didn't add up. So he pulled about 15 of their members and looked at the engagement day over day.
It was a pod. A coordinated group liking and commenting on each other's stuff inside the window that the algorithm watches. Around 80% of the engagement was the same people propping each other up. The number looks great in a screenshot. It does nothing for the business underneath it.
The part he keeps thinking about is how easy it is to measure yourself against a story that's been inflated. If you're frustrated that your good content isn't landing, you're probably comparing your real numbers to someone else's manufactured ones. He and Sarah got into all of it on the new episode, including a 48-hour trick to make your own feed useful again.
Link in the comments.