Hey @cryptoeater I have come to a very similar conclusion recently. I noticed just the other day, when I made my last post, that I instantly had 40 new followers in the space of about 2 minutes. I utilise ginabot on Discord and found that my phone buzzed non-stop of that short period of time after the post went through.
I was quite amazed and did some digging on the new 'followers' and found that most of them are not really active at all - most of their blog contains resteems or some other vitriol. Granted, some are real users, which is great, but I would be inclined to say that most are not.