2:/ Before rebranding as ‘political activists’ in 2017, the Krassenstein brothers ran Justin Bieber and Jonas Brothers fan accounts. They actively sought out other fan accounts (Justin Bieber, Britney Spears, etc.) to buy, likely boosting their followings in the early days of Twitter. There’s also plenty of evidence they used follow-unfollow bots both before and after turning those teen traps into @krassenstein and @EdKrassen. It’s no coincidence both accounts were following exactly (!!!) 506.3K people a year ago—doing that manually would take years. The grift started long before you knew their names.