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Giving yourself thousands of likes would require creating a lot of accounts.
The Scheme bot has to continuously follow users with the same centers of interests (find them with hashtags) and unfollow users who didn't follow back after a certain time. The bot shouldn't go too fast, you need to emulate an autistic human doing it all by hand. Of course, you should also avoid using the official API : this simple protocol is so efficient that you'll be banned quickly.
In the meantime, automatically create content related to the aforementioned (popular, non obscure) centers of interest by reposting content from the accounts you subscribe to.