The concept of audience "ownership" seems to be the piece most often missed here on Steemit. You own the audience you create for yourself. You "own" that audience because you've engaged with it, attracted it with your value. (Not that you own it in the sense you can control it, but in the sense that you've gathered it.) And you're not entitled to the audiences of others because you haven't done that work. But you're pointing it out and others are, too. Hopefully the message will get through eventually.