Hmm- that actually can be a motivation too - good point!
Sometimes people do even weirder things to promote their stories.
It happened to me on isnta where in DM I usually eather help people with coding or talk to fans that I got fallower and as I fallowed back (yeah I do it on insta too) I got DM in meaning “Hi love if you are interested read my story”…
I am interested if somebody would even try to open the story if it is so “pushed” in your face