I rarely head over to the trending page usually stick to the people I follow occationally picking up a new person based on a comment they made on another post and down the rabbit hole I go.

I have been checking it daily since the hardfork and now find things to actually upvote there :D There are projects and the unearthed art as well as people who were always too far down the list behind the too-highly botted posts.

I think once newer users and thoses with low SP realize the potential of Steem out weights the smaller payout we will really see something magical.

At some point, newer users will see the potential of the tokenized communities and want to be a part of a community theme they love.