What I don't understand is why suddenly everyone needs a space in block? I mean there were not much demand, and now for some reason demand increased.
Ordinals and BRC20 tokens hype and FOMO! Those are the tourists that only come once a year, throw money at expensive garbage stuff, in this case, useless NFT and tokens, and then when the season ends they leave and everything is back to normal
You can have a look at it here, a wave of people paying high fees to mint their tokens on the Bitcoin blockchain.
https://brc-20.io/