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You can be a shill without payment. It is known as fanboyism, involves selling your soul and using that brand/thing to fill the void in your empty life, making it part of your persona. Plenty free of cost zealot armies exist for everything on internet.
That seems like a really big stretch to me. The essence of being a shill is dishonesty. What you're calling fanboyism isn't dishonesty, just questionable judgement.
Fanboyism has a very thin, blurred distinction between passionate enjoyment and shilling.