I think that it is obvious , the crypto hype was to blame and is directly correlated. And the merit system could not have had any real impact on the traffic back then since ,as we all know, the spammers had the option to make new accounts and still particapte in sign. campaigns.

I think that there is a real possibilty that we will see some changes in traffic regards the last merit system adjustment.


Allmost all social media traffic is because of bounty hunters so it is not much of criteria.

In my mind the traffic that counts is the organic one, which comes from people actually searching for stuff mostly relavent to blockchain.