I think the main reason was:
John mcafee name was tagged to the project banner
In every project you see this name you need to avoid it , he charged people money to shill their project on his Twitter and some of them were rubbish, I am very glad he can't do that at least for a while, paid shillers need to be stopped, that is not a very effective way for marketing, instead of focusing on the project and their product they focus on marketing, I have seen some of them who promoted scams, and they don't care about if it is a pull rug or not , NOTHING would take place of DYOR and no matter how many paid shillers , shill it, it still could be a scam!