But there's no comments for hours at a time and there's always fewer than 15 people if that talking. How is that alive 
https://www.reddit.com/r/XtraBYtes/ The reddit is 99.9999% Dead.
https://www.reddit.com/r/XtraBYtes/ The reddit is 99.9999% Dead.
I would put money on a good majority of those members/subscribers/followers being alt accounts that were made by the team. Go look around Reddit, the Xtrabytes forum, or on Bitcointalk. There is a large percentage of accounts that made a few comments - all positive praise towards Xtrabytes - and then were never used again. Theres numerous accounts that only pop up every so often just to sing praises to Xtrabytes, then are completely dormant for months after. Heres a list just from the Xtrabytes forums:
Cryptokingbyte: 11/22/17 - 12/24/17
Webwakko: 11/21/17 - 2/27/18
MushroomCloud: 11/6-12/2/17
Rwin: 11/26-12/20/2017
Shixy: 11/16/17-1/27/18
Marcus: 12/16/17-1/4/2018
Silvercaveman: 11/16-12/15/2017
Jonnypromises: 11/15/17-11/15/17
Mightyman: 11/15/17-1/6/18
Cau: 11/16/17-12/7/17
ekosaputro: 11/18/2017-11/20/2017
All made around the same time in the span of about a month during the height of the bullrun. Most made only a couple positive comments and then were never used again. Extremely likely that these were alts made by the team to make it appear that Xtrabytes had/has more support than it really does. Its no secret the team has tons of alt accounts and that they buy accounts. Both of these facts were proven by Reddit mods.
BTW, Dave just admitted that their Twitter has 8000-something followers. So why does the website say 10,000+ Twitters followers? Thats objectively false. As is the claim that the subreddit has 5200+ followers. It has 4700. Proof: https://imgur.com/a/gvZxx5D. It begs the question - what else is the team lying about?