Firstly I think the bot thing started because insta shadow banned her and she was probably at risk of losing her account, then off the back of that things were getting quite heavy here and she started to panic. A lot of influencers have copped on that their threads are deleted if they're under a certain amount, I believe Joanne wanted her thread gone. Can't remember what had been uncovered at the time but it was pretty shady, could just have been the university stuff which is fairly old news now. She definitely was not hacked or plagued by bot accounts following the GTT comp, she totally made that up, she's quite cunning really. But to go on the radio and openly make a tube of herself with this lie is bonkers. Notice she forgets herself and says she only received fake messages from fake people telling her she'd bought her followers, hahaha I bet she did.