Is Medium Now Flooded with Many New Zombie Accounts?

Or, I maybe somehow unknowingly cracked the code to attract followers on Medium, which is unlikely. It is hard to explain a recent huge jump in my followers on Medium.

My Medium tech blog targets a niche audience interested in:

• End-to-end (vi UI) Test Automation
• Continuous Testing
• Software Side hustle or pursue to be a Micro-ISV