I've been saying Steem is heading up in the outer space since the fork happened... I don't need graphs to tell that... More people move over to Hive, higher value of Steem goes.

It doesn't require to be a rocket scientist that any bad publicity about the team will cause the value of the coin to go up like a boner. It is also common knowledge that the pumping will end in massive dumping when people cash out all the profits.