A rapidly growing Instagram account featuring an AI-generated rabbi has recently gone viral.
The account goes by the username @rabbigoldman and is an AI influencer. According to Social Blade data, the account gained roughly 617,401 followers over just a two-week stretch in early March 2026, going from around 630,000 to nearly 1.25 million. Its biggest single day saw close to 200,000 new followers pour in.
Over the past 30 days, the account has added more than 1.1 million followers in total. Those are numbers that most human creators spend years trying to reach.
The persona at the center of it all is a Jewish character generated entirely by artificial intelligence. The face, voice and scripted content are AI, though the presentation is polished enough that many viewers appear to scroll right past any skepticism. Videos from the account regularly pull six and sometimes seven figures in views, with the account’s top-performing video reportedly reaching 40 million.
What is the Rabbi selling at the end of all this? A finance guide called “How to Make & Invest Money in 2026,” listed at $9.
The sales page leans hard into urgency and scarcity with language like “today only,” a countdown on remaining copies and a testimonial that reads: “I went to college for 4 years and paid $60,000. This $9 book taught me more about money than all of it combined.”
A five-star rating of 4.8 and a download counter sitting just below 4,600 round out the pitch. The original listed price of $47 is crossed out above the discounted $9 figure, and a progress bar suggests only 404 copies remain before the price resets. These are the same pressure tactics that have lived on sales pages since the early days of the internet, now dressed up in AI-generated religious imagery.
The account was recently highlighted by social media marketer Tomas Cvercko, who analyzed the potential revenue generated by the viral content in a video discussing the page’s rapid growth.
In a video walkthrough of the account, Cvercko laid out the math: “Let’s assume he got 100 million views in the last month… but let’s assume also worst case scenario, he only had a 0.5% conversion rate, meaning 500,000 people bought from his link. Now his course costs $9, so we’re going to assume on the low end, he made $4.5 million.”
But Cvercko’s interest in the account is not purely journalistic. The video functions as a lead-in for his own offering: a course on how to build and manage AI influencer accounts. “If you want to learn how to create AI influencers just like that and get partnered with the brands that we work with, comment toward the link and I’ll send you a DM right now,” he says at the end of the clip.
Cvercko, who has around 15,000 Instagram followers of his own, is essentially using the Rabbi Goldman story as a proof of concept for a system he wants others to pay him to learn. The pitch raises a fair question: if the AI influencer model is as reliably lucrative as the numbers suggest, the more rational move would be to scale the operation aggressively rather than spend time selling tutorials about it.
Rabbi Goldman is far from the only character of this type making the rounds. A separate AI persona operating under the names Yang Mun and Yangmug accumulated roughly 2.4 million followers across Facebook, TikTok and Instagram in approximately three months beginning in October 2025.
That character presents as a Chinese healing monk offering life and wellness advice to primarily American audiences. Researchers who examined the account concluded that every element of it, from the scenery and facial features to the voice and Chinese characters displayed on screen, was generated using AI tools.
In one widely circulated video, the Yang Mun persona delivers this message to followers: “What once protected the child becomes exhaustion in the adult. Anxiety is not a brokenness. It is adaptation. It is the nervous system saying, I learned this to keep you safe. Healing does not come from fighting the system, but from slowly teaching it that survival is no longer required. This is why the 30-day healing journey exists, not to fix you, but to gently guide the body out of constant alertness, one day at a time.” That healing journey is available for $49.99.
Despite adding small AI disclosure labels to some videos, the Yang Mun account has continued to grow, with many viewers appearing to engage with the content as though it represents a real person.
