Yea, the author performed an argument by selective observation in the followers section. Choosing a GitHub user from a famous TV show to prove his point makes

Yea, the author performed an argument by selective observation in the followers section. Choosing a GitHub user from a famous TV show to prove his point makes the line of argumentation particularly fallacious. I'd need to crunch the numbers, but would suspect that number of followers is highly correlated with GitHub stars, PyPi / NPM downloads, etc.