I'm more than happy if I express myself honestly. I was counting days, checking the number every day, felt a little frustrated when saw some unfollowing me. But that's okay. As I said, it doesn't bother me. What I have achieved is something my personal milestone does not necessarily have to seem much to everyone.
This is just/only an almost meaningless number. Why? See my profile for example. I currently have 1867 followers, but most of them are inactive nowadays. They left the platform years ago. They came from the Steem blockchain (from which the Hive blockchain is forked). Most of my former followers probably do not even know that the Hive blockchain even exists.
I registered on this platform on 2017.05.17. Many things happened in the previous almost five years.
So seeing someone with a higher number of followers does not necessarily mean that he/she actually have more followers than you at all. They could easily have even much less followers than you.
What is more important is the number of the active people. Everyone should focus on them.
Have a nice day. All the best. Greetings and much love from Hungary.
As I said, it's something my personal goal doesn't have to mean anything to anyone. I know many of the followers are not active and all.
But numbers impact, like people hesitate to follow when they see the number is too low. You can have different opinion on this. But this is what I found.