In Soviet America, electric sheep dreams of android!
Seriously, though - I had a captcha last night that was unreal.
There is a sort of thermodynamic law in effect for human conversation. Any time you have a unified channel of comms, there is a sort of natural rate of conversation where the many present will simply listen to what is being said. Even when multiplexing (which is having multiple conversations on the same channel), there is a point where people slow what they are saying.
During daytime breads, I might post once every two or three breads. During night breads, I might post five times. Night breads do tend to go a bit slower than day breads, but there is generally more posting per id.
It is my understanding that we also got rid of creating breads other than the general or already pinned bread topics. So we have constricted everything down to effectively a single channel.
This all compounds on another trend. We are all atypical people. Even the shills and shitposters. Typical people rarely interact with the internet, or generally stay on social media platforms. I, personally, have been on forums and internet boards since long before Facebook was a thing, and really even before google. I kept track of a number of people I met via those platforms, and most are either exceptional in their careers, or the 'sagely' types in average careers who have their ears to the ground.
It's highly possible that news of Q saturated that category of people very quickly. I had never been to the chans prior to Q. I was 'here' within the first couple weeks of Q's initial posting. News of Q traveled fast through the active communities and those interested bit down.
The growth has been among "normies" who just don't usually adventure on the internet. Even then, most of them find it fascinating and are waiting for something to shift. Those who dismiss it or who think it is just another fringe conspiracy theory will catch on after it becomes undeniable that something is very different about this administration - and that their ideas about the world are probably far less correct than they thought possible.