Why in Django many-to-many relation shows wrong data in the admin panel

I'm trying to implement the many-to-many relation to support in the user model these features:

1. user followers (persons who follows the user)
2. user following (persons the user follows)

To achieve that I'm using double relation on the same model because followers/following are the same User models.
Basically it works hoverwer I'm facing a weird behavior in the Django admin panel. When I add some user to other user to the following list (in the shell everything ok), the Django admin panel shows that user in the followers list but he should be in the following list. I can't understand why it happens.
<br><br>Many thanks for any help!
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My models.py

from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractUser
from django.db import models


class User(AbstractUser):
    followers = models.ManyToManyField('self',blank=True,related_name='user_followers',symmetrical=False)
    following = models.ManyToManyField('self',blank=True,related_name='user_following',symmetrical=False)
    pass

Supppose Admin wants to follow Neo. Neo should have follower - Admin. Admin - should have Neo in his following list.
Shell commands and result:

admin = User.objects.filter(username='admin')[0]
neo = User.objects.filter(username='neo_anderson')[0]


// check that everything is empty
neo.user_following.all()
<QuerySet []>
neo.user_followers.all()
<QuerySet []>


// --- admin wants to follow neo ---

// add the admin to the neo followers
 neo.user_followers.add(admin)
 neo.save()

// add the neo to the admin following 
admin.user_following.add(neo)
admin.save()

// check if admin follows Neo
admin.user_following.contains(neo)  
TRUE

// check if neo has the follower admin
neo.user_followers.contains(admin)      
TRUE

But in the admin panel I see that for the user Admin the user Neo is in the followers section but it should be following because Admin wants to follow Neo. Not vice versa

First of all use:
admin = User.objects.get(username='admin') to avoid having a list, that you need to index... (cleaner)

Second:
I am not sure how the "related_name" property is working exactly and how it would behave, but have you tried switching / using the opposite? I would assume followers would follow "me", meaning they have the following attribute, instead of the followers attribute!?

Maybe I am wrong, but try:

followers = models.ManyToManyField('self',blank=True,related_name='user_following',symmetrical=False)
following = models.ManyToManyField('self',blank=True,related_name='user_followers',symmetrical=False)

(remember to migrate those changes to the database)

I would be curious what the behavior is then, please let me know