Kerley quite obviously bought followers, makes no sense that he is so far ahead of Lyles etc otherwhise. Even McLaughlin, who still has loads of followers from high school and college days and obviously has to advantage of being a beautiful women, "only" is at 1.1 million followers compared to Kerley's 1.2
jokes aside, obviously Kerley followers are bought, probably not by him as literally anyone can buy followers to another person, and they are extremely cheap.
Kerley pretty clearly buys followers. Look how few interactions (likes/comments) he gets on his posts relative to other people with 1M followers, most of his are not real. Hes getting like 5K likes and 30 comments on most of his posts, Jakob gets 50-80K+. Probably trying to make himself look more marketable to sponsors
jokes aside, obviously Kerley followers are bought, probably not by him as literally anyone can buy followers to another person, and they are extremely cheap.
He probably has like 300k real followers
Thank you, don't know why people are adamant that he himself bought the followers, people bot other people's accounts all the time to make them look bad lol
Maybe same reason Angel Reese somehow has way more followers than Caitlin Clark
Angel Reese has a lot of engagement though. They both have millions of followers but I think Angel has more instagram appeal cause she's also into fashion and looking good.