TREE NEWS update: NFT project Robin Guards said it hired 200 crypto Twitter KOLs with a combined following of over 10 million to promote its collection, which ultimately sold just 200 NFTs, a conversion rate of about 0.002%. The project publicly named more than 100 partner KOLs, accusing them of buying fake followers and engagement, using engagement groups to inflate metrics and posting AI-generated replies. It also said @grebby, who first called the project a scam, sells fake follower and engagement services to several of the named KOLs.
Robin Guards Says 200 KOLs With 10M Followers Yielded Only 200 NFT Sales
The striking figure here is not the failed mint but the collapse of the influencer-conversion assumption that much of crypto marketing still runs on: reach, in this case, proved almost entirely disconnected from intent. The public naming of partners, and the countersuit-style allegation against a critic, turns a weak launch into a reputational dispute in which the accuracy of follower and engagement metrics is now the central battleground. Whether named KOLs respond substantively, and whether platforms or projects begin treating engagement-group and bot inflation as a diligence issue rather than a marketing cost, is the open question.
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