Yeah. I've seen posts like that too.
I mean.. on the other hand I really get that the start is hard and frustrating if you don't want to invest some money to push yourself so you are looking for as many followers as possible...
But I just don't believe that you will get far by that, because most of those followers don't really give a shit about your content and are just blindly following and upvoting.

Currently I still like to believe that if you really create some good content for a while you will finally see a result and get rewarded. Otherwise this platform wouldn't work.