I've learn from my short experience on Steemit that like the number of views, the number of followers doesn't matter either.
It's only a few who you've made bond with who actually bother checking your profile and upvoting. Other than that it's mainly autovoters on Steemit. Most old timers and a few new ones are kept on autovoter by big bag holders and they keep getting the votes even when they upload a single picture with one liners. So my question is, how can the new timers who put efforts into thier work get the attention of big bag holders? I'm sure the answer will be of great help to many good content creators who have been putting out good content constantly but aren't receiving much back in return.