About

Baller Busters is an Instagram account dedicated to exposing scammers and fake entrepreneurs on Instagram. The account was created in February 2019 and began posting memes and screenshots regarding fake entrepreneurs until, eventually, in November 2019, The New York Times wrote a profile on the account.

Online History

February 6th, Instagram^[1] user BallerBusters posted about the first "#FlexOffender. The post gained over 830 likes in eight months and Baller Buster described the "influencer" in the caption:

DRUM ROLL!! 🥁⁣ (swipe left!)⁣
Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you for your patience!… meet your very first “#FlexOffender” and wannabe baller @MarquisTrill! 🤡⁣⁣
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Not only did he claim to have made @Worldstar (RIP Q…) and @6IX9INE famous… he also claimed for the longest time to be the one behind the @world_record_egg! 😂😂😂⁣⁣
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Once he got called out by nobody else but @BenBaller [buster] (see what I did there), he eventually changed his IG bio…. guess he « CRACKED » under pressure 😂😂😂⁣⁣
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This dude also fakes his engagement on social media and uses bot systems to hijack Instagram accounts via API and have them tag a bunch of people!… ohhhhh Marquis why you such a clown?! 🤣🤡🤡🤡⁣⁣
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PS: you had to see him commenting everywhere on Instagram claiming he made the egg when everyone knew it originated from the UK… sad to see grown men pull their pants down for CLOUT 🤣👉🏻👌🏻⁣⁣
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Guess you got #BallerBUSTED Marquis! 😈💜 #BallerBusters

The account continued to comment on fake accounts, scammers and general liars. On May 10th, BallerBusters^[2] posted a screenshot of a LinkIn profile caption, "He didn’t even write it correctly – it's an "honorary doctorate." Honorary PhD doesn't exist" (shown below, left). The post garnered over 500 likes in six months. On August 31st, BallerBusters^[3] posted screenshots from some scammer Instagram stories saying "When a scammer steals from another scammer, what do we call that? ClownCeption? Oh, also, notice how these clowns usually can’t spell for shit?!" (shown below, right). The post garnered over 700 likes in three months. The Instagram account also posted various memes regarding scam artists on the platform.

Reputation

On November 11th, 2019, The New York Times^[4] published an article "On the Internet, No One Knows You’re Not Rich. Except This Account."Journalist @TaylorLorenz^[5] tweeted, "Hoards of “business gurus” on Instagram target entrepreneurial Gen Z teens into purchasing courses and 'mentorship' for thousands of dollars, then screw them over. @ballerbusters wants to put an end to the scam" (shown below).

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