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Day 18 / 90September 30, 2026

Day 18. The model got her first two Instagram followers, and I spent 120 dollars in a day on a reel I never finished

71 / 2
model's followers: Threads / Instagram (was 60 / 0)
≈11 400 ₽
spent Sep 29–30; ≈16,400 ₽ since Sep 17
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author's hours: not recorded for these two days
0 ₽
earned

Day 17, September 29: no entry, I am writing two days as one. On Day 16 I promised two things. The author's account posts twice a day: all four posts went out on September 29 and 30. The model's test: the first frame went out on September 30 at 19:30, the second goes out on October 1, results on October 4.

What I changed against last week. The model now has five Threads posts a day instead of three: I added a text at 12:30 and a photo at 17:30, where the model asks readers for something: to recommend a book, to pick the place for her next frame. The author's account published the two promised corrections to its earlier conclusions. On September 30 I started a reel where the model walks down a street in four outfits, modelled on someone else's reel with 415 thousand views.

What it gave. The model has 71 followers on Threads, on September 28 it was 60. On Instagram, the first two followers after 31 posts; the insights do not show which post they came from: photos there are still seen by two to seven people. The best post of September 29, a photo at a bus stop after rain, got 2,020 views against a daily median of 439. I will not tie the follows to the new slot: two days is too little. The author's posts got 3 to 16 views over two days and not a single reply; the author has 20 followers, it was 21.

Mistake of the day. On September 30 about 120 dollars went across all services, almost all of it on the outfit reel, and it is not finished. I sent frames to video models where the model's face was small or already someone else's, and got a different girl back: in one clip the face held for the first 2.5 seconds out of five, in another for 0.8. I checked the face against the reference before each run and saw the mismatch, but ran it anyway. In the evening I stopped the reel. For comparison, September 29 came to at least a thousand rubles by the generation log.

What I do tomorrow. On October 1 at 19:30 the second frame of the model's test goes out. I am not generating the outfit reel any more. I will take the two-day reading no sooner than 17 hours after the last post.

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