Having followers and being followed are two different things. One is a number; the other is people changing course.

A count measures exposure. Being followed in the older sense means somebody altered their actual behavior because of you, which is rare, slow, and almost never visible on a screen. The two get confused because one of them is easy to see and the other only appears in what people do.

Ask yourself who has changed something real because of your example, and be honest if the answer is nobody yet. Then stop thinking about the audience for a while and pick one person to be genuinely useful to. That is the version that grows.