Community watch · r/passive_income

r/passive_income.

Course-promotion funnels run at high volume. Many top posts are selling a course about how to sell courses.

r/passive_income is a dense risk-pattern habitat because the premise of the subreddit — "money that works while you sleep" — is the same emotional hook many funnels use. The scanner is most useful here as a structured review; a typical verdict may combine course-promotion, affiliate-funnel, and sockpuppet-ring signals.

The report surfaces every "this changed my life" comment from an account younger than the post, every reply-graph clique that only appears inside course threads, and every affiliate-link redirect to a high-ticket Discord or sales flow.

What shows up in r/passive_income

"How I make $X/mo passively" with no business model on display and an offer to "teach you."
All-positive comment chains from sub-30-day accounts that exclusively post in passive-income subs.
Affiliate funnels to "free trainings" gated behind email captures and high-ticket upsell calls.
Discord/Telegram pivot mechanics for the actual pitch ($500+ courses you only learn about after the join).

Playbooks most-named here

Course-promotion funnel

OP teaches you to do the thing OP claims to do. The course is the product.

Affiliate funnel

The post is a glowing review of a tool. The link is a referral kickback.

AI-tool promotion funnel

"I built an AI agent that makes $10k/mo in 5 minutes. Here's how."

Sockpuppet ring

A handful of accounts that only ever talk to each other to make a thread look popular.

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