I hate being proven right about how much corruption and manipulation there really is in the mainstream.

It’s likely going to add a steady influx of new users to steemit who may not have found it so quickly otherwise. I’m just surprised that people are surprised, but I guess that’s how it is. Maybe it’ll come out that both sides of the isle pay a variety of companies to manipulate elections and there is a gross misuse of our data at all the major tech giants, both intentional and unintentional. None of it would surprise me. That would most certainly lead to steemit becoming a huge player very quickly.