Well, it seems you’re picking up some traction now (data as of last Friday):
https://public.tableau.com/shared/RCS4JSWX5?:display_count=y&:origin=viz_share_link

We don’t normally see many in-between Rank threads at odd merit count figures (hope this does not turn out to become a trend now…).

Out of curiosity, you are now in the top 5% merited profiles on the forum. As of last Friday:
> 70 earned merits: 1.456 of merited accounts (4,19%)
= 70 earned merits: 23 of merited accounts (0,07%)
< 70 earned merits: 33.245 of merited accounts (95,74%)