It is interesting that you wrote this today. I was just looking through some of the people that I am following and I saw the same thing.
" I was just following whoever follows me. It didn't take such a long time to know this cheap tactic." I did that too and those accounts never stopped by my page (I think a lot are bots) again. The big accounts commenting and not upvoting was super depressing lol.
"I just need to exert some effort to find them." I have been slacking off on that too. I really need to go through some of my favorite tags and see if I can find some new people because I know that they are out there.
I know what you mean. I don't even look at my follower list anymore.
Yeah It gets hard to keep to keep track at some point.