The Bot‑Girl Economy

Sex‑bait, semi‑automated 'girl' personas now dominate engagement and monetization tactics across major platforms, funneling users to affiliate links and paywalls with synthetic photos, cloned profiles, and AI voices. This isn’t just spam; it’s a scalable business model that converts social feeds into catalogs of synthetic intimacy and micro‑transactions. — If synthetic, sex‑adjacent avatars become the default engagement engine, platform policy, child‑safety rules, and the future of public conversation will be shaped by automated parasocial commerce rather than person‑to‑person interaction.