On all those trend graphs, where the increase begins in early December is around the time I joined Steemit and started telling all my buddies about it.
Granted only three joined so far lol, but they arent spam bots at least.
I post daily, and I do feel my posts may get drowned out in the sea of posts sometimes... wonder what it wouldve been like if I had joined just a couple months sooner! Damn
Thanks for the statistics on the state of Steemit. I use this to convince my friends to join. They're all just skeptics by nature, but for some reason not of their corrupt gubberment... well anyways..