the follow button has been gone for a few days now. whats going on?

its there for me

This usually happens because one of your chrome extensions is interfering with the site layout. To confirm if this is indeed the issue, open the site in another browser or private mode, and check if the follow button is there.

If so, then disable your extensions one-by-one until you find the problematic one.

Usually it's an adblocker

it actually was my adblocker thanks for the help. strange that this has happened now tho i've been using the extension for a long time and i had always seen the button ¯_(ツ)_/¯