Monero is a $hitcoin of Cryptonote and Cryptonote itself never did well. It seems like Monero was just a pump and dump by Rpietila, who recently re-entered a psychotic episode and thinks he is a king of some Medieval realm.
http://youtu.be/QANHxv2HTgg?t=10sRpietila has a long history on the internet. Allegations are years ago he was posting all sorts of crazy videos on YouTube, it's overwhelming.
Where to start..
$hitcoin
Monero has the largest and most competent dev team out of all of the cryptonote coins
Cryptonote never did well
What does this even mean? In works, its useful, people use it, so it did well... If you mean it didn't make you any money and now your butthurt then you're pathetic
was just a pump and dump by Rpietila
Was implies its all over now, which it isn't. The Monero bubble is long in the past, so the idea of pump and dump is irrelevant. The fact that Monero isn't a pump and dump might be the reason why not enough people are buying.