The week's fastest growers on Instagram share one fight

Findra compared its follower counts for 15 and 22 October, for every account it counted at 5,000 followers or more at the start of the week. The three Instagram accounts that grew fastest all post the same story: a dog fight made with AI.^{Source 9Source 6Source 7}

The top of the table

Caramelinho went from 41,352 to 127,372 Instagram followers, about three times where he started.^{Source 1} Candy the Greyhound went from 75,878 to 128,122, up 69 percent.^{Source 3} Cuca Beludo (@ia.vacalha) went from 210,358 to 294,541, up 40 percent.^{Source 4} On TikTok, Mr. Stretchy grew 78 percent, from 182,011 to 323,980.^{Source 2} Next on Instagram came Massive Unc, from 158,543 to 198,171, up 25 percent.^{Source 5}

One fight, three accounts

On 18 October the fight between Caramelinho and a rival called Doggor went out in two parts. The first part has about 780 thousand views and the second about 911 thousand.^{Source 9Source 10} Both reels appear on the Instagram accounts of Candy the Greyhound and Cuca Beludo as well.^{Source 6Source 7} So does a reel from 20 October about the aftermath, captioned “Pós luta caramelinho x Dogor”, with about 554 thousand views.^{Source 11}

Then the story moved to Candy. A reel on 20 October, titled “THE TRILOGY ENDS HERE”, asks whether Candy will avenge his student @caramelinho.ia.^{Source 12} On 21 October Candy posted a fight announcement: Dogor Mcgregor against Candy the Greyhound, billed for 1 November.^{Source 13} A reel the same night, on both Candy’s and Cuca Beludo’s accounts, says the old champion is back and nobody messes with Caramelinho.^{Source 14}

The same tool behind them

The fight reels carry the caption line “Feito com: @higgsfield.ai”, Portuguese for made with Higgsfield, the AI video tool.^{Source 9Source 11} Candy’s bio reads “Higgsfield Creative Partner”, and so does Cuca Beludo’s, which also names @syntx_ai and @roboneo_br.^{Source 6Source 7} Cuca Beludo’s bio claims more than 100 million views in the last 30 days.^{Source 7}

Also growing

Massive Unc’s bio names @genfire.ai as a partner and promises an announcement at 200k.^{Source 8} Findra counted 198,171 Instagram followers on 22 October.^{Source 5} His newest reel, “Big win”, went up on 21 October.^{Source 15}