Classic nodes went up 1300-1400 in a day. You saying 1300-1400 people brought nodes online all at once? Not saying it's impossible, but pretty unlikely. There is someone now boasting on reddit about owning 800 nodes in the cloud, paid through May.

It shouldn't need to be said, but one person controlling 800 nodes can do more harm to the network than good. Sure, they can help bootstrap new nodes and relay blocks. But that level of centralization means that nodes that are predominantly communicating with his nodes are open to Sybil attack.

I validate on a listen-only node, so my Core node does not count towards "reachable nodes." But I assure you, I will only be running Core. In any case I don't find one person running hundreds of nodes a compelling reason to support a Classic fork. LOL. Sybil away, Classikkers! We'll see how far you get.