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TikTok Spam Bots: Here’s How to Block Comment Spam and Bots

  • May 22, 2025
TikTok Spam Bots
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TikTok has over 1.04 billion monthly users worldwide.

However, like most social media platforms, bots proliferation everywhere on TikTok including in comments, likes, DMs, account profiles. Though they might appear harmless, these automated accounts can distort genuine engagement, skew performance metrics, and degrade the user experience.

This article dives into TikTok’s bot problem and provides insights on how to spot and eliminate them.

What are TikTok spam bots?

A TikTok spam bot is an automated account designed to generate fake likes, follows, comments, posts, and more.

Powered by scripts, these bots execute specific tasks without human oversight. Their purposes vary. Some are designed to artificially boost engagement metrics, while others aim to promote scammy URLs, products or services.

Regardless of their goals, their existence often leads to negative experiences for authentic users.

How many accounts were created by bots on TikTok?

TikTok doesn’t disclose how many fake accounts are on their platform, unfortunately.

However, Facebook DOES share this information in their “Transparency Report on Fake Accounts.”

As of late 2023, Facebook reported 827 million accounts were fake (created by bots). They then removed these accounts as shown in the chart below.

Overall, this represents 4-5% of all it’s active users, and is it’s very likely that TikTok has a similar profile of fake accounts on their platform. Moreover, with the advancements in AI this number is likely to rise, given the challenges in detecting AI-driven, human-like accounts and their rapid creation capabilities.

Find out:  How many Reddit spam bot accounts are on the platform?

how many fake accounts are there on TikTok

What can these spam bots do?

Today’s spam bots, powered by advanced AI, are becoming increasingly sophisticated, making them difficult to detect. They can replicate real user interactions, misleading audiences and undermining the authenticity that Facebook strives to maintain.

  • Create Millions of Fake Accounts: As shown above, over 800 million bot accounts were created on Facebook, representing 4-5% of its active user base.
  • Inflate Popularity: By interacting with content at rapid speeds, bots can make posts appear more popular than they actually are, skewing the perceived popularity of that content.
  • Automate Engagement: Bots can automatically follow accounts, like posts, and leave comments, artificially boosting a profile’s visibility and engagement metrics.
  • Send Direct Messages: Bots can send automated direct messages containing promotions, scams, or phishing attempts to collect private information from users.
  • Generate Lifelike Content: Advanced AI enables bots to create realistic fake profiles, complete with convincing images and details.
  • Scrape Personal Information: Some bots are designed to extract user data for analysis or sale, compromising user privacy.
  • Click Advertisements: “Click bots” simulate ad clicks, artificially inflating ad performance metrics and misleading advertisers about the effectiveness of their campaigns.

AI-generated bot profiles are taking over TikTok

With the emergence of AI-driven image generators like Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, it’s now possible to create entire social media profiles and even selfie pictures for people who don’t actually exist.

This new reality of virtual social connections can be unsettling, where AI-generated influencers—often designed to look like conventionally attractive women—mesmerize audiences with their digital charm. These AI creations typically feature traits like flawless skin textures and repetitive backgrounds, hallmarks of AI-generated images, yet the deception is often surprisingly convincing.

Take, for instance, the popular account of “Miquela.” She is entirely AI-generated, yet she’s now one of Time’s “25 Most influential people on the internet”, has officially signed with the talent agency CAA, has appeared with real-life celebrities such as Bella Hadid and earns over $10,000 per social media post.

Here are a few examples of these bot-created influences on TikTok:

Bot Generated Influencers on TikTok
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Examples of bot-generated “people” on TikTok.

Creating a bot influencer is actually very easy to do today with AI.

You simply start by creating a character concept, including their appearance, personality, and interests.

Then you can use AI tools like Stable Diffusion or Midjourney to generate lifelike images and create consistent, high-quality content.

It can be difficult to replicate the same facial image and body type for each unique post so new tools like RenderNet.ai (no relation to Fraud Blocker) make it simple to create entire character-driven images and videos in seconds.

how to make tiktok spam bots
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Examples of comment spam on TikTok

Here’s some examples of the types of spam in comments that users are seeing on TikTok. This is often done by bots to like or comment thousands of times in a short period.

TikTok Spam Bots in Comments
TikTok Spam Bots in Comments - mobile

How to identify bot activity on TikTok

Even with their increasing sophistication, bots on TikTok often exhibit certain telltale signs that can help you spot them:
  • Links to promotional URLs: Many comments will attempt to send you to other websites or links. These largely send you to harmful links with phishing scams, malware sites and more.
  • Direct contact: Comments to “email me,” “DM” me or similar are all designed to then have you send them personal information or offer to send you more promotional offers on other websites.
  • Generic Comments: Watch out for vague or irrelevant comments that don’t match the content of the video. Common examples include comments like “Incredible picture 🔥🔥” or “Sooo beautiful 😍.”
  • Incomplete Profile Details: Bots often have incomplete profiles, featuring a generic profile image and minimal personal information. Be cautious of users with unusual handles like @sarahpenfield576.
  • Unnatural Account Behavior: Sudden and significant spikes in following or liking activity can be a red flag indicating bot activity.
  • Disproportionate Follow Ratios: If an account follows a large number of people but has very few followers in return, it’s likely a bot.
Read more: How to identify Twitch view bots in a stream.

How to stop spam bots on TikTok

TikTok has different spam filters then those available on Instagram, Facebook and other social media apps.

Here are their 4 main ways to block spam bots on you comments:

#1 — Comment care mode (recommendation: ✅ turn on)
This applies stricter filters for comments based on those that are reported spam by other users as well as comments that are simply deemed to be “inappropriate” or “unwelcoming.”

#2 — Filter all comments (recommendation: ❌ turn off)
All comments are blocked and require you to approve them before they are shown on your posts.

#3 — Filter spam and offensive comments (recommendation: ✅ turn on)
These are comments that may be offensive or spam, however a lot of spam will continue even with this turned on.

#4 — Filter spam by keywords (recommendation: ✅ apply keywords listed below)
Hide any and all comments that contain any keywords or phrases that you add.

Here’s where to access these filters in TikTok:

  1. Select Profile in the bottom right corner
  2. Click the 3 bars in the top right corner
  3. Select Settings and privacy > Privacy
  4. Select Comments
  5. Turn on Filter spam and offensive comments
  6. Add keywords under Filter keywords
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how to block tiktok spam bots - mobile

Types of TikTok spam filters available.

List of 30 keywords to block comment spam on TikTok

Here’s a list of the top 30 keywords we recommend to filter for spam right now. This won’t help with preventing unwanted likes on your posts or comments, but it will immediately help reduce the bot spam in your comments:

  1. @
  2. 💰
  3. 🏠 / 🏡
  4. 20% off / 25% off / 30% off / etc
  5. account
  6. affiliate / ambassador
  7. book now
  8. coaching call
  9. collab
  10. comment / share
  11. crypto / cryptocurrency / bitcoin / ether / xrp / doge
  12. download
  13. follow
  14. FYP / For You Page
  15. giveaway
  16. hack
  17. I.G. / IG / instagram
  18. link in bio
  19. NFT
  20. onlyfans / O.F.
  21. p0rn
  22. prize
  23. sale
  24. send me a DM / message me / email me
  25. sign up
  26. stream
  27. subscribe
  28. wealth
  29. win
  30. youtube

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