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"We'd start off like liking something on Facebook. Then we go to SoundCloud and listen to a song. Then I use another account to follow someone on Facebook. Then I follow them on Twitter. Then I sign into DeviantArt and view and like someone's art. Then I'll like the same first Facebook page. Then I go to a Kickstarter and donate a dollar to a certain cause (they had paid our company previously). Then it's another SoundCloud song."

We'd count that as an especially productive Saturday, but Albert described all that as the work of a few minutes. "You'll multitask. A song will be going while you go to different sites liking things. You need to sign in and out of different accounts, and one tab will be the Facebook tab. Another will be the Twitter tab. The Instagram tab. The YouTube tab." We're tired just hearing about it, but that's the game.

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"We're tracked by how many likes we give a day. It could be a viewing or a listen, but 'likes' is the word we use for it all. If we're below where we're supposed to be, we'll get a verbal warning, and if we're still behind in a few hours ... they'll turn off our personal fan for half an hour. Not the lower fans on the computer, but the fan on us. You can be fired if you have too many slow days. And sometimes it's not even their fault. They may put a typo in a fake password or an email, and when they try to log in, it won't happen. Sometimes the email will say it's detected that it's gotten some unusual activity and they need to verify it. We go on to the next one if it comes up, but you know how tight my schedule is. A few of those can cause you to go off-pace."

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The people in Albert's position are very much on the losing end of the digital revolution. "It's not a good job. You get depressed very easily because you're stuck inside doing this all day. And they won't pay you for the day unless you work all of the hours you're assigned. There's no leaving early, especially on days when a site asked for a million likes. They need all those likes, and you need to do a constant sign in, like, sign out over and over again, for hours."