To be honest I gave up worrying about the Following and Follower count long ago, I'm in way to deep with Following to even think of trying to Unfollow - I keep following new people but to be honest it's a token gesture so they don't think I am ignoring them - I rarely look at my feed for posts, really no time between #SublimeSunday and going through a range of discords, while remembering people through posts comments and keeping up with their posts.
I'm just as bad with SteemMonsters, I don't really understand how to choose the cards to win - but I'm suspecting you need to get loads of cards to progress at all - @holoz0r who knows more then I ever will about it kindly suggested the Market as a place to pick up cards so I might try that.
Everyone thought Verge had grabbed the Netcoins win when on Saturday they jumped by 2000 votes to overtake Steem - but I suspect most of those got cancelled in final checks - I think Steem was pretty much the only contender getting votes from real people instead of Bot Scripts!
I hope you are having a lovely week 🤗 and getting some free time to yourself too.