CURIOSITY: Why is the number one person in terms of followers someone who appears to only resteem? Digital archaeology/anthropology

I was taking a look at steemwhales.com today as it's been awhile since I looked. When I sorted by followers there was someone I hadn't actually heard of that sorted to the top. @joanaltres

12,724 followers. That's some impressive stuff. How did I miss this person?

I scroll down to look at her posts...

I keep scrolling...

and scrolling...

Lot's of resteems... I'm still looking for something original.

What am I missing? Why are people following this user in such large numbers?

It is clear I missed something, yet for the life of me I cannot see what it is?

This is not me bashing or attacking someone. I am truly curious as I do not see why there is so much interest here?

Oh and they are following an insane amount of people, so is it just a case of YOU FOLLOW ME, and I'LL FOLLOW you?

I spent quite some time scrolling... I found an original post from 8 months ago. I may have missed some, she is very active in resteeming.

So I continued my journey. Consider this a bit of that digital archaeology I mentioned in my most recent post besides this one.

And then I made it to the initial introduction post... so unless I missed some I see 3 original posts in 9 months. A ton of resteems, which could be good. This is kind of like the "Joan of Alt" channel. Tune in to see what she likes. This might be brilliant.

So as of today this is the account with the most followers on the entire steem blockchain.

Steemwhales lists the account as valued at $139 and the wallet looks like this:

So what does this tell me? If money is your goal then simply resteeming is not very profitable. If you want lots of followers whatever she has done is genius, but it doesn't appear to have translated to much of a gain for this account.

In looking at the transactions she does get a lot of donations for resteeming and other things, so in reality this account has done a lot more than the $139 you would think this account has. That simply shows that in terms of steem power there is not much in the way of investment. The money that does come into this account is occasionally sent out.

She could be sitting on it, or she could be surviving on it. That's good. This is a pretty mysterious account as it has an insane number of follows, it receives a lot of donations and payments for resteeming, and yet very little of that actually stays on this account.

Let's dig deeper... I haven't looked at comments yet, perhaps she is really active there.

That is the KEY... here is a big answer. She is very active in comments, and she offers positive encouragement and helps people out that way. This is beginning to make sense.

She is a good example of how engaging in conversations can make a big difference. I believe the primary reason her account is not worth an insane amount is that she is almost completely funded from tips and donations. When we post and are paid 50/50 steem power/steem dollars then half is going into steem power. Unless she is rewarded from comments (which she is some) then her steem power wouldn't climb a lot.

This account is pretty unique, and appears legit and different. She is showing a VERY different way to use steemit and it appears it is likely working for her.

It gave me a mystery and a journey today. I did not mean any of this as an attack on her, I was just truly curious and this dovetailed nicely with my reference to digital archaeology and anthropology.

I think there may be a little bit of genius here in her approach... It is not something I myself can really tap into though. It is pretty alien to how my mind works.

EDIT: I missed @stellabelle's interview of @joanaltres. She did a good job if you want to know more check out her posts Interview With @joanaltres Who is Ranked #1 With The Most Followers, 10,000+ on Steemit