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How to complete the Under the Influence challenge in BitLife

Social media can get a little wild.

Now that we’re done with peculiar festive events, it’s time to dive into BitLife once again and take on the Under the Influence challenge. This time, our character is chasing social media fame while tackling a few addictions.

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BitLife Under the Influence challenge guide

BitLife’s Under the Influence challenge has five tasks to complete:

  • Be born in Germany
  • Get Verified on 3+ different social media platforms
  • Develop an alcohol addiction
  • Develop a gambling addiction
  • Troll 5+ people on social media

Although you’re not required to purchase any special career packs or expansions for this challenge, having ones like musician, athlete, or modeling will make it much easier to become famous and gain social media popularity. The Hollywood Star can also achieve a similar result. If you don’t have either and want to avoid spending money, though, you can finish this challenge without pursuing these routes.

Be born in Germany

Your first task of the Under the Influence challenge is to create a character born in Germany. Your gender and city don’t matter for this challenge as long as you select Germany as your country in the character creation menu.

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Once you make your German character, age up and create some social media accounts. You can access this by going to Assets, Social Media, and any platform you wish. Right away, you can make a Twitch account and join the Affiliate program, giving you an avenue to become famous early on through streaming. Otherwise, there are other methods you can use.

Get Verified on social media platforms

After joining Twitch as your first verified social media platform, you have two main paths to getting other verified accounts: actively post on various platforms until you cultivate a following, or become famous through other means before making your accounts. Becoming famous makes this much easier, but you can use whichever strategy you prefer.

BitLife offers multiple ways to become famous, with the jobs below being just a few examples:

  • Writer
  • Chef
  • DJ
  • Magician
  • Socialite
  • Musician (Special Career Pack)
  • Actor (Special Career Pack)
  • Model (Special Career Pack)
  • Astronaut (Special Career Pack)
  • Athlete (Special Career Pack)
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Being royalty achieves the same result, but this is much harder to accomplish, even with the celebrity dating service added in 2024. Generally speaking, becoming famous requires you to land one of these jobs and work hard for a few years until you get lucky and catch the public’s eye. From there, you can create a few in-game social media accounts, age up once or twice, and request verification to knock out this task.

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Develop addictions

The next two tasks of the Under the Influence challenge are to develop alcohol and gambling addictions. You can gain addictions in BitLife by repeatedly engaging in the activity. With alcohol, visiting a nightclub through Activities > Nightlife will quickly get you there, while gambling requires visiting the casino multiple times a year.

Troll people on social media

The final objective is the easiest, as it just requires you to troll five people on social media. To do this, head to any of your social media platforms and select Troll. From here, you can troll friends, family, celebrities, or BitLife App themselves, but the last option will give you various illnesses that can be difficult to cure.

Once you troll at least five people, you’ll officially complete BitLife’s Under the Influence challenge and receive a mystery gift box.


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