Okay ima be honest here. It wasn't the internet that was screwing me over. Now I don't know why and I really hope I'm not the only one who has experienced this but...
Recently whenever I push on the little follow icon on a follower so I can follow them back, it just unclicks basically, on its own. I don't know why.
At first I was like maybe I can only follow 1000 profiles. But that theory was blown out the window after some research and I awe someone who followed like 10k people so no that's not the problem.
So I guess, because I don't know if it's working for you, sorry if you've had like 10-20 notifications from me saying that I'm following you. This is the reason why in case you have. I really hope it doesn't do that but if so my apologies.