I would never cringe about this. Even though you do stick animations the animations them selfs are good and you have improved on both art and the flow of your style just in 8 months! (That’s a good thing since the way you do the effects and stuff are really smooth). There are other people who do stick animations and are good at it for example this video https://youtu.be/pH5XyCh5xu8. If you still feel like your animations aren’t good enough I’m here to support you bud! You can try doing backgrounds for your characters too, I think it would be pretty neat (Reference to the video that I posted). Im sure you can make badass animations in the future. You do deserve followers since your animations are good so don’t worry about that and you should never be embarrassed by doing something that you love doing!