Kaito gave a batch of accounts the “Smart Follower” green badge over the past couple of days, and CT is celebrating like it’s New Year. I can only laugh.
I checked the timeline: On 11/8, @MedusaOnchain posted, “I was away for two months, and Kaito upgraded me from dumbo to smart follower,” getting 833 likes and 382 replies. Four hours later, @kerrylegit copied the exact wording, changing only “2 months” to “4 hours,” and got 273 likes and 165 replies. Today, @Parmit09 copied it again, changing it to “1 day.” Another user, @Omaofweb3, declared, “All washed-up KOLs and small accounts will have to bow down to me,” getting 603 likes and 405 replies.
Even the celebrations are copy-pasted. You can judge for yourself how much “intelligence” this crowd actually has.
Put simply, this badge measures whether “big accounts follow you,” not whether what you say is right. Someone in the Chinese-speaking community nailed it in one sentence: Xhunt, Kaito Smart Follower, and Lighthouse are a trio of prerequisites for getting sponsored deals—not measures of content quality.
My guess is that its most practical use will be this: projects use the green badge to screen KOLs and set promo rates; followers see the badge and assume you’re a “certified smart person,” when really you’ve just made it into some mutual-follow clique. People used to chase follower counts; now they chase “the right followers.” Same old game, just a new skin.
Next time you see someone using a green badge to endorse a token, ask one thing first: when did they sell the token they’re shilling?
#Kaito #KOL