Means nothing if they aren't buying. Just like views are not sales. You can argue important to have more followers, but if you don't know who they are, like might be competition watching, the number has no meaning without who. Do you have socil followers and I have none? I have seven buyer followers and you have two. Who sells more?

I think it helps boost new images if they get seen with some instant sales. But I also think most of them are competition. I have 128 and that number also stopped climbing for me a wile back. Used to get a few extra every month but all of the sudden it just stopped.

Regarding changes made recently (I think) that are a step backwards IMO - they've removed the option from More/Advanced Search to look for work by a particular contributor. You can still do it from a a particular image (click on the name to see a portfolio), but you used to be able to do a search and then narrow the results by contributor name, and that's gone.

I'm guessing they don't want buyers to be able to pay too much attention to who produced the work

Thank you all for your input!