You can blame /u/thedesertlynx who is an instrument of the Dash corporation.

I would imagine that the Dash corporation's investors were ruffled after Monero ascended them on the marketcap, and because Dash is driven by profit rather than socio-political ambitions, it acted much like any other corporation would do to try and take out the competition.

Joel Valenzuela (thedesertlynx) has often worked simultaneously for Dash and CoinTelegraph in crafting well-written pieces of FUD against Monero, that utilize subtle attempts at covert hypnosis along with mild neuro-linguistic programming.

It was /u/thedesertlynx who was recently responsible for perpetuating the meme that Monero's community held a poor reputation.

It was also /u/thedesertlynx who wrote a similar article on CoinTelegraph that purported to illustrate that "investors were scrambling to get out of Monero!" and that the entire project was a sinking ship.

Anyone with a genuine understanding of the socio-political variables that surround the cryptocurrency movement would surely be scratching their heads at how someone who claims to be a New Hampshire libertarian would choose self-serving immediate profit, rather than helping to lay down the fundamentals of a genuinely disruptive movement.

We saw the same thing with Amanda B Johnson. So much potential to globally expand libertarianism, and in the end they choose the immediate profits of corporate employment, rather than taking the path of most resistance and helping the community to build something amazing.

Monero has always been a fragile being. It is surrounded by dystopian antagonists at every turn, whether that be the Dash Corporation, the ZCash-hype sponsored by a foreign government, or the Bitcoin monolithic all-seeing blockchain that in its current form tiptoes toward a form of global egalitarianism where privacy does not exist for anyone.

It is always a catastrophic shame when a powerful corporation or a powerful country goes to war against a barebones civilian population, or in the case of Monero, a community of volunteers, cryptographers, and political activists.

But it is a devastation, when someone who professes to be politically active and is demonstrably intelligent, instead chooses a questionable path that would appear to run counter to the politics they exclaim.

Still.

Desite the FUD, Monero will succeed regardless. Because that's what we do, and that's what we always have done.