Being new to STEEMIT, this is eye opening.. I need to study this more. Did you pull the blue, green, red curve off the block chain directly?
I noticed that there's some big whales in this community, and getting paid a huge amount based on content that's not justified. In the long run, I have a feeling that it just can't be self sustaining as you mentioned.. good job
I pulled it from SteemSQL which is a database populated with data from the blockchain by one of the witnesses called @arcange. I massaged it a bit to make it a 7 day moving average to smooth the line a bit.
The first (and hardest) lesson to learn here is that it's not just about making good content, it's also about building a social network of users who will support you. Some of those whales might not have as good content, but they have lots of friends on here who support each other. For better or worse.