This is why whenever I see a post about followers being irrelevant to one’s performance on Medium, which is true, I comment that every follow is priceless to me because I have no illusions that I will ever make meaningful money on Medium https://medium.com/illumination/is-medium-a-malignant-narcissist-1f3d55793bf6 but I am here to get noticed by the universe for helping people and when I get a follow (not from a bot) I know that something I wrote, whether in a story or just as often a comment, as I write substantive comments, not just platitudes, meant something to someone in some way, shape or form