Influish Doomscroller Job, Udaipur: Every Verified Detail and How the Reel Went Viral

By Influish Editorial Team · Published 6 November 2026 · Last updated 6 November 2026

Last checked: 6 November 2026 · all nine reports and Influish's public channels

Who is Influish?

According to its own website, influish.com, Influish offers tools for Instagram creators: an automatic DM tool (which sends a message when someone comments a chosen keyword), brand collaborations and growth tools. The site names Sankalp Nag as Founder and CEO. It has a “Careers” link in its footer, but when we checked on 6 November 2026 its homepage listed no open roles and did not mention the doomscroller job. Every news report describes the company as based in Udaipur, Rajasthan. The website’s visible text gives no company address, but its Organization structured data (machine-readable markup in the page code) lists Udaipur, Rajasthan, as checked on 6 November 2026.

The video itself came from the Instagram account @gangsofstartup, whose display name is “The Viral Startup Office”. Its bio reads “Startup name - INFLUISH”, which is what links the account to the company. Dainik Bhaskar’s English site also describes it as Influish’s account. (Dainik Bhaskar Digital (English))

What did the Instagram video announce?

The reports describe a short video featuring Influish staff, posted on 4 November 2026 and framed as a Diwali-time opening. In it, a man says the company will pay someone who loves Instagram to scroll Reels all day and report what is going viral. Asianet Newsable, on 5 November 2026, quoted the pitch as: “If you really enjoy using Instagram, we will pay you for it.” (Asianet Newsable) India Today, Asianet Newsable, NKTV, Dainik Bhaskar and Times Kerala describe the speaker without naming him. (India Today) (NKTV)

Two Hindi outlets, Salam Hindustan and The Printlines, name the speaker as Sankalp Nag. Salam Hindustan also gives his age as 26. (Salam Hindustan) (The Printlines (Bharat Express News Network)) Influish’s website confirms that Sankalp Nag is the company’s founder and CEO, but none of the other reports confirms that he is the person in the video, and the age appears in only one report. We therefore treat the speaker’s identity as reported by two outlets, not established.

The call to action was simple: comment “Hi” on the video. Udaipur-based candidates would then receive the application link by Instagram DM, and a Google hiring form was also linked from the account’s bio. That process, and what the form asks for, is covered step by step in how the application process works.

How fast did the story spread?

Very fast. The earliest report we could verify was published on the afternoon of 5 November 2026, and by late evening the story had appeared in English, Hindi, Marathi and Malayalam. The table lists the reports we read, in order of publication time (Indian Standard Time).

At the time those articles were written, most said the video had more than 300,000 (3 lakh) views; India Today said it had crossed 340,000. That is not a contradiction — the count was rising between articles. Seven reports also carry a figure from the company: more than 11,000 people had requested the application form. That number has not been independently checked by anyone, and two headlines describe those 11,000 as people who “applied”, which is not what the article bodies say. Requesting a form is not the same as submitting an application.

If you want the full, minute-by-minute record — including outlets that were indexed by news aggregators but could not be verified — the dated coverage timeline (our sister guide, Doomscroller News Tracker) keeps it.

Why did the doomscroller post go viral?

How did people react? Asianet Newsable reported on 5 November 2026 that the announcement “sparked jokes in the comments section”, with one person calling it the “perfect job”; NKTV reported similar “dream job” comments. (Asianet Newsable) (NKTV)

No outlet analysed why the post spread. The following is our own reading of the factors visible in the coverage:

• A relatable joke. Many people scroll Reels for hours every day. A job that seems to pay for exactly that is instantly shareable, and the headlines leaned into it (“get paid to watch Reels”).
• Festive timing. Five reports frame it as a Diwali-time opening, a period when light, upbeat stories travel well.
• A one-word action. Asking people to comment “Hi” makes participation effortless, and each comment pushes the video to more viewers.
• Multi-language pickup. Hindi, Marathi and Malayalam outlets covered it within hours of the English ones, widening the audience well beyond English-language feeds.

One piece of context is not mentioned in any report: Influish’s own product is an Instagram tool that automatically sends a DM when someone comments a keyword. The “comment Hi, get a link by DM” mechanic matches what that kind of tool does. We mention it because it explains how the replies could be sent at scale, not as a claim about how the company actually handled them.

Where do the reports disagree?

The core story is consistent. These are the points where outlets differ, and how we handle each one:

Is the Influish doomscroller job real?

Here is what can be checked, as of 6 November 2026. Influish is a real company with a public website that names its founder. The Instagram account that posted the video names Influish in its bio and links a form labelled “Hiring Form”. Nine outlets independently reported the same offer. Those facts make it very unlikely that the post is a hoax by an unrelated party.

What cannot be checked is the substance of the job: pay, hours, location, number of openings and whether anyone has been hired. The address doomscroller.influish.com, which might be expected to host an official page, did not resolve when we checked. Until Influish publishes terms, the most accurate description is: a genuine company announced a genuine opening, but the job’s terms are unpublished.

• Company exists and has a public website — Checked
• Instagram account names Influish and links a hiring form — Checked
• Offer reported consistently by independent outlets — 9 reports
• Pay, hours, openings, deadline published — Not disclosed
• Dedicated official job page live — Not live on 6 Nov

Official channels checked directly on 6 November 2026: influish.com and instagram.com/gangsofstartup. Moneycontrol also published a story according to news indexes, but its page returned an access-denied error, so nothing here is taken from it.