gm. warpcast's follower number ticked over to the next higher rounded unit 🥂

(hello to humans among the 93000)

husband, father of two sexy girls, crypto community manager, bizniz owner and opinionated conservative. jesus guns girls america 🇺🇸

@wake.bsky.social

Gm Wake! I've made it up to 2700 (baby steps) and I also wonder how many of them are real. I didn't lose too much during the reevaluation of followers, but I do know that my biggest gains seemed to be mostly bots months back (I guess they are active). Many of the artists that follow me that are real left though.

Photographer of magical places and collector of experiences. /enchanted-forest 
https://linktr.ee/KristinPiljay

follower counts are a vanity metric. influencers use them to look important, but they're too bloated to mean anything imo. anyway! congrats to meeeee lol

Artist | Designer | illustrator | Content/Design Researcher

the number contributes to the feedback loop, yeah. people see it, assume that person has value, and are more likely to follow. that, in turn, trains the algos to surface the influencer because they appear to be popular because they appear to earn followers.

the loop does require occasional action from the entity (in this case, me), but much of the growth isn't due to my contributions, it's just the big getting bigger. i could probably stop using farcaster right now and still hit 100k followers.

I guess that's what makes them influencer. The follower counts gives them the influence. But if you're not giving back to the counts, you lose the counts. Congratulations!