PSA: You don't need followers to make money online. You need ATTENTION on your offers. Followers are just the easiest (not the only) way to get it. Direct traffic beats a huge following any day. Email lists beat followers. Strategic partnerships beat followers.

The problem is everyone's obsessed with the vanity metric. Meanwhile, someone with 5K followers and a real offer is making 6 figures and someone with 50K is broke.

Stop measuring success by your follower count. Measure it by the revenue your attention actually generates.

Full stop.