He doesn't say that someone submitted a fictional characters profile as his own.
He says github popularity is a useless metric because even fictional characters have a higher popularity as nearly all github users.
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So the reasoning is, due to having outliers that don't actually exist with multiple thousands followers, the metric won't help for hiring?
Someone with followers still indicates that at the very least some people are interested in that person's projects.
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.
As soon as these metrics lead to job success as soon we get fake followers and stars, like on twitter, instagram, etc.
It just indicates that his account has followers.
A couple of friends or some fake accounts and everbody cam have followers.
The pure existence of followers says nothing just like everywhere else.