I don’t know exactly where to post this - both not discussing or discussing it would look suspicious, so I’ll take the middle road: post about it on the altstack where I post… Reviews and erotica.
Concretely, I suspect that a certain person has been view/sub botting, and that has resulted in 200 botted subscribers subscribing because they recommended me. For the purposes of honesty, I will post the view/sub stats of my main blog.
I refuse to comment on who I think is view/sub botting; for what it’s worth the publication would have had roughly the same subs with or without the bots.