Energetically speaking, retaining a certain amount of followers without any change is very different from losing and gaining the same amount of followers. If you understand this process of flow - and how these two are functionally, technically and consequentially different - you will also begin to fundamentally understand the flow of money, fame, attention, etc. While, symptomatically, the number remains unchanged - it is the flowing in and out of energy that renews the object or person it is attached to. There's money in the bag. And then there's constant flow and release. You might think these are the same thing - but they are obviously not, they embody two different states of being, and of energetic charge. The vessel through which water flows constantly remains pure. While the vessel that sits unbothered has its contents wilt and spoil. Even if they do retain the same exact amount of water at a time.