Don't any of you have IRL friends who join forums or teach neighbors or friends about forums?
No. Not a single one, and that's why I find it incredibly hard to believe--especially since this particular forum has had a major problem with account farming, alt accounts abusing campaigns/bounties, and alt accounts contributing to the overall low quality of discussion here. Let Occam's Razor slice your way through to the truth, no?
On the other hand, I have no idea what communities are like in other countries or if the younger generation (which I am assuming you are a part of) would be more likely to be into bitcoin and tell a friend about bitcointalk. Still, even as I wrote that sentence the thought that popped into my head was why someone would tell somebody else about this forum--and it'd probably be "Hey, did you know you can get paid to write posts?".
There's not enough reasonable doubt here IMO, but I'm not tagging any accounts either.