I had almost 300K followers on Instagram when I shut it down
That sinking feeling you get when you see your follower or subscriber count drop is very probably a remnant of that ancient terror your ancestors felt when they found themselves abandoned or sidelined by their tribe. It is existential in a very real sense, and in that same sense, it is also something that tends to devalue your individuality.
Prisoners of identity
How many of your favourite influencers are prisoners of your expectations? How many of them are interested in appearing to be who they seem to be rather than being who they are expected to be? And here is an even more interesting question - how many of them are not who they appear to be and are only putting up the pretense because there is profit and / or social currency in being who they are pretending to be?