April 13, 2026
Bot-farm meets Baphomet, chaos ensues
Hacker compromises A16Z-backed phone farm, calling them the 'antichrist'
Hacker hijacks fake‑influencer farm, slaps a16z with “antichrist” meme as internet erupts
TLDR: A hacker briefly commandeered a startup’s fake‑influencer dashboard and queued an “a16z is the antichrist” post, but the company says nothing went live and the breach is contained. Commenters are livid at VC‑backed bot farms, calling it manipulative grift and wondering why anyone funded it in the first place.
Internet sleuths are feasting after a hacker snuck into A16Z‑backed Doublespeed—a startup that runs a phone farm to pump out AI‑made TikTok influencers—and queued an edgy “a16z is the antichrist” meme for hundreds of accounts. The screenshots show a dashboard boasting “47MB exfiltrated… 573 accounts postable… 413 phones dumped.” The meme never actually went live, and co‑founder Zuhair Lakhani says the “unauthorized access attempt” hit an older queuing system and was contained. Still, the vibes: scorched.
The comments? Absolute bonfire. One camp calls it a straight‑up bot farm and can’t believe a blue‑chip investor like A16Z bankrolled it. User n_u bluntly asks, “Isn’t this a bot farm?” while bix6 fumes about “spams AI content… to manipulate people” in a world already on fire. Others roasted the aesthetics—blargey peeped doublespeed.ai and joked the only caption needed was “a16z funded this.” Meanwhile, a few meta‑watchers asked if 404 Media links are still “blackholed,” because even the news about the bots is its own drama.
With Doublespeed previously hacked in December and bragging about evading platform rules to run fake product‑pushing accounts (supplements, massagers, dating apps), critics say the real scandal isn’t the hacker—it’s the business model. Toss in Marc Andreessen’s seat on Meta’s board and you’ve got extra spice. Result: outrage, memes, and a whole lot of “shame bell” energy.
Key Points
- •A hacker accessed Doublespeed’s backend and queued a meme targeting a16z for posting via customers’ dashboards.
- •The hacker claimed 47MB of data was exfiltrated, 573 accounts were postable, and 413 phones were “dumped.”
- •The meme appears not to have been published on customers’ social media accounts, based on a checked handle.
- •Co-founder Zuhair Lakhani said the incident involved an older queuing system now secured; no unauthorized posts were published and no broader impact was observed.
- •Doublespeed previously faced a December 2025 hack revealing at least 400 TikTok accounts and undisclosed product promotions; the startup raised $1M from a16z and aims to expand beyond TikTok.