Hi Larken, I've been here almost 6 months now and have right at 400 followers. That's it. I usually watch or read all of your posts within a day or so. I've left a few comments in the past almost 6 months.
I usually keep myself pretty busy I would think I would have more followers. One thing about Steemit I believe is that as many bots there are, I bet there are more bots then there are actual people. I know of several people that have alternate accounts. Jeff Berwick, and Adam Kokesh do that. I mean if you had two accounts, wouldn't you upvote your other account and vise-verse? Making yourself more money voting yourself a little more at a time? It wouldn't surprise me if a bunch of little teeanaged Indian boys in India are running several bot accounts loading up on tons of Steem, and constantly pumping up each account with upvotes upvoting the bots off each other making little at a time slowly getting rich. They need like lets say 10 bot accounts to make enough money to support their lifestyle. More or less.
There are times I see them using Steemit to lead us on another greed game based on scarcity.