That's not many followers at all. Thats why she hasn't posted yet as she knows It will never take off
I think Lauren looks for get-rich-quick schemes and continually vastly over-estimates how popular she is. She probably thought the Youtube channel would have thousands of followers within a few weeks and everyone would be waiting with baited breath (if you were naive and thought Instagram was an indicator of popularity, you'd expect Subscriber numbers to be 10, 20 times more).
It's a really shallow, sad lifestyle. Lauren would be better directing her time and energy towards something more useful rather than diminishing returns. It appears (from reading on here, at least) that she's even given up on her OnlyFans account - though you'd have to be incredibly stupid to think the digitally altered avatar is Lauren Goodger, anyway.
Maybe seeing how other TOWIE members are faring makes her not want to give it all up (arrogance, jealousy or delusion, who knows) and she thinks she can milk more out of the z-list life.
She's not very bright, she's not an aspirational person, and she doesn't really have anything to sell as far as talent or personality goes. Worse, she doesn't have the determination and grit to stick at something and really find out what shes's good at. It sucks but she's had her time. You can only spend so long being notorious or famous for being famous, others then come along.
Lauren also has that awful aura of entitlement about her that so many Insta-begs have, and it makes her deeply unlikeable and un-relatable as a person. She's never grateful or shows generosity of spirit, she always sounds fucking bored with life, as if she thinks she deserves more.
Hopefully Gemma Collins' sell-by date will be up soon, I can't stand her either.