It's rare for fees to go up in the weekend though. It looks like many people started consolidating after mempool was empty for the first time in months.
That's definitely not what's happening right now, only exchanges are doing a bit of consolidation as they anyhow pass the fees to the customers, with only a brief moment of 6sat/b confirmations normal users probably are not planning on doing it for weeks.
Besides, if it were for consolidations
we wouldn't have a record in Bitcoin transactions, as consolidations would be bigger in size and thus less possible individual transactions in a block. The culprit is brc20 tokens, which unlike the previous ordinals are no longer constrained by a huge fee based on their size, back then when they were minting they were keeping it under 3-4 sat at max, now, it's different.
Until this new hype dies down I assume we're going to have another weekend with mempool going up rather than down.