I've been puzzled by all the surreal things I see happening on the Steemit platform and it seems to only have increased the last weeks and days.

I tried to make sense of it all a new theory for the Steemit collapse and the continuing bot-abuse against small fish by the witnesses is as follows:

Who benefits most with Steemit failing?

I see 2 categories:

• the political/industrial establishment that see a big treat in the "free speech" element of Steemit. Some of you might underestimate this element, but I like to test extremes and I have done also on this platform. What I have been able to post here would have been enough on many a forum to get banned for life.

• second category: the competition:
  Facebook, Twitter, Youtube etc. do they really need another competitor?

How easy would it not be for these 2 categories of groups to make some sort of silent agreement and buy a substantial amount of the Steemit witnesses - money is not a problem for these guys. And these witnesses can then slowly but steadily toxicate the climate here, so that people who were lured in to this platform with promises or try to earn a few bucks, suddenly get a mack-bot downvote subscription out of nowhere, get almost no attention and see others with almost zero content upvote by an army of bots from another witness.

And so sadly this platform is phased out. Because it is so easy to do it.