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In the chance that you're not Chuzo, EDM was insanely popular in the Netherlands even in those days, and signed Dutch producers were really a dime a dozen, even in respected labels like Spinnin, Ultra, etc. and very few of them made it anywhere close to where Afrojack got, both in EDM and in pop.
Sure he had appeal and everything, but a good chunk of his competition did too, and at the time making it as an EDM producer/DJ wasn't that contingent on your presentation. A lot of popular DJs at the time, who got the same opportunities as Afrojack weren't really attractive or charismatic at all.
For example one of the biggest names of 2009/2010 was Wolfgang Gartner, who looks like pic related, comes from the US (which didn't have a fraction of the scene the Netherlands had), and is on record saying that in his first gigs he was so nervous he couldn't place the needle on the disc from how hard his hands were shaking.

Besides, Afrojack having those advantages doesn't negate what I'm saying because if he came up today with everything exactly as it was back in the day (same looks, presence, music, etc) he wouldn't go anywhere specifically because his music isn't up to today's standard.