I definitely agree with you @natevegas, there is an over abundance of topics about crypto that hit the trending / hot pages. A quick glance shows that at least 30-40% of topics on the trending page right now are crypto related.
I have my own theories on this (whales upvote whales and whales are crypto) but for Steem to hit a larger growth trajectory it needs to find a way to compartmentalize topics better and make the community more user friendly for a typical social media user. Curation in my opinion is broken.
I would love a subtract option. Trending - (Crypto+Streemit) :D
THAT would be great
Yes it seems to be populated like that. I don't know if it was worse 10 months ago or not as I wasn't here.