Astroturfing where the skies are blue
How an alleged "enterprise-grade Web3 platform" briefly promoted itself on Bluesky with the aid of thousands of spam accounts
On December 15th, 2025, a Bluesky account by the name of “Mansa Agents Craft” (@agentscraft.bsky.social) posted a video advertising an “enterprise-grade Web3 platform”, which was rapidly reposted by a large number of spam accounts. The accounts that amplified the Mansa Agents Craft post are part of a spam network consisting of thousands of accounts that also amplified a handful of other Bluesky posts around the same time, including both cryptocurrency and music-related content. In the days since, both the Mansa Agents Craft account and the majority of the spam accounts promoting it have been suspended, although some of the other posts amplified by the network are still online.
As with the accounts amplifying Mansa Agents Craft, the majority of the account‘s followers are (or were) spam accounts, all created on December 15th or 16th, 2025. Most have interacted with no accounts other than Mansa Agents Craft, although a significant minority have also amplified a handful of posts from a specific set of cryptocurrency and music-themed accounts. The Mansa Agents Craft account itself claims to be an “Ultimate AI Agent Creator” in its biography, and its profile contains a link to an associated website, mansa(dot)world.
In addition to reposting and following the Mansa Agents Craft account, the spam accounts also liked, replied to, and quote posted it with a similar degree of spammy enthusiasm. Many of the replies are brief phrases such as “Good project”, “Let’s go”, and “To the moon”, and are reminiscent of similar spam that has regularly appeared in the reply sections of cryptocurrency posts on X (formerly Twitter) over the last several years. Between the accounts that reposted, followed, liked, replied to, and quoted Mansa Agents Craft, the spam network consists (or consisted) of at least 2512 accounts.
The website linked from Mansa Agents Craft’s profile, mansa(dot)world, purports to provide “…one platform to create AI agents and generate all AI content”. The types of AI-generated content allegedly available include chatbots, images, voiceovers, articles, and more. The fine print on the website reveals that using the site’s services requires paying with an obscure cryptocurrency token, $MUSA, and most screens on the site have a prominent “Connect Wallet” button displayed in the upper right corner.
The graph above shows a fourteen-hour snapshot of the spam network’s posting activity. The majority of the posts are reposts (1444 of 2147 posts, 67.3%), followed by replies (405 of 2147, 18.9%), followed by quote posts (298 of 2147, 13.9%). The account most frequently amplified during this period was Mansa Agents Craft, although a handful of other accounts (some themselves now suspended) turned up as well. At its peak, the network posted over 100 times in the course of ten minutes.
During the period in which the spam network was amplifying Mansa Agents Craft, it also reposted at least four other posts from four distinct Bluesky accounts. Two of these posts contain links to songs on various streaming services and are still online. The other two posts are from suspended accounts, @kajlabs.bsky.social and @jkasr.bsky.social, both of which appear to have been cryptocurrency-themed accounts. The fact that the spam accounts amplified content from a variety of accounts with different themes suggests that the spam network is some type of general spam-for-hire network, as opposed to something specifically created to amplify Mansa Agents Craft.