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That's because his "followers" are just all fake crap accounts, or people who follow because he's using a bot to follow/unfollow them. Doubtful any of them are willingly paying attention to him. Just look at the wild swings on both sides, as Instagram cleans up the fake accounts.

https://socialblade.com/instagram/user/elijah_oezz/monthly

He has comments disabled on instagram.

Hah. It baffles me that they still gave him the honor of mentioning him in that article. Free publicity to the fake.

He's doing affiliate marketing, it's jackpot for him :/

Of course he does, doesn't want the people he's burned to comment.

Probably because comments usually make it obvious if someone is using an automated bot to grow their Instagram account, which he definitely is.

Great find, thanks for noticing. He probably bought most of them to "fake it" until he (probably) makes it.