Over the past few years, we have watched one of the wildest transitions in media happen. People forget that just five years ago, we didn’t give much clout to how many “followers” you had on a social-media platform. In fact, to many people, the thought that over 100,000 people were “following” someone online was weird. It prompted head scratching and confusion, rather than instant respect and validation (as it does now). It has only been recently that your follower count and status on various social platforms is seen as an accurate representation of your “value.”
