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The top 10 neighbors form a tight cluster of journalists, activists, authors, and politicians — with activists making up the plurality. Similarity here measures how closely two entities' audiences resemble each other in composition; scores across the top 10 run from 0.97 to 0.98, a band narrow enough that no single neighbor stands apart.
Three fellow journalists anchor the upper end: Nikole Hannah-Jones (0.98), Wesley Lowery (0.98), and Charles M. Blow (0.98). But the largest subcategory in the set is Activists — five of the ten neighbors carry that label: Brittany Cunningham (0.98), Samuel Sinyangwe (0.98), Michael Skolnik (0.97), Sherrilyn Ifill (0.97), and DeRay Mckesson (0.97). Clint Smith (0.98) is the lone Author, and Ayanna Pressley (0.97) the lone Politician in the top 10. The audience that follows Jamil Smith, in other words, looks more like the audience for civil-rights activists than for journalists alone — even though Smith's own subcategory is Journalists.
The flat shape and compressed score range signal a cohesive audience with no single dominant pull: this is a community that moves across journalism, activism, and progressive politics as a unified bloc rather than clustering around any one figure.
