The idea—simple and magnetic—lurks in internet corners: an auto liker that will flood a Facebook post with mechanical approval. It promises validation in numbers, the glitter of hearts and thumbs that translate to social proof. Enthusiasm tastes like the metallic tang of coffee and the soft glow of a sleep-deprived grin. You clone a repository from GitHub—anonymized scripts, Python files scented with requests and BeautifulSoup, or perhaps an APK wrapper invoking hidden APIs. For a while the code is inscrutable: tokens and endpoints, session cookies and delays calibrated to mimic human pauses.