I Randomly Received 400+ Votes On My Post

So this is a bit of a different post from my usual output, and it'll be a short one. I'll also be tagging it differently than usual since it concerns Steemit as a site rather than the niche I usually make my posts in. So hi, I blog about anime, but to most of the people who might see this that might be irrelevant and it's also irrelevant to this post. After waking up and taking a look at my latest Steemit post, which you can find here:

https://steemit.com/anime/@alberenza/caligula-episode-1-some-musings-about-otaku-culture-included

I discovered that despite the fact that (at the time) the post had less than 40 views, it had somehow managed to accrue over 400 upvotes, reach the top of anime trending, and make just over $50. I haven't been with Steemit for very long, but I don't think I've ever seen anything like this happen to other creators. Given how strange this is, I can imagine most people are going to assume that I paid some people or made some deals in exchange for these upvotes. I can't really stop you from thinking that, but I can promise that I haven't made deals with any of the people who upvoted me. All of the accounts seem to be legitimate, as upvote bots usually leave a comment I believe, although there was at least one account which somehow had a ton of followers but no posts or comments, which is highly suspect. I haven't really talked with many people on Steemit thus far, and typically most of my votes don't receive all that much attention. So while I was posting in hopes of getting a bit more exposure, getting so much so fast is more worrying to me than exciting. I feel like random posts blowing up is a normal occurrence on this site, but from my understanding, posts like that receive attention based on dealings behind closed doors. This is something that just kind of happened to me, all I did was write the post.

Given the view count and the singular human comment, it doesn't seem like as many as 400 people actually read the post. Again, prior to now, I was a small content creator who never received much attention, despite a few odd comments and votes here and there. It almost feels like a Monkey Paw's wish, since the end of the post expresses a sentiment for some more attention on the platform. It feels like this may come back to bite me later.

So, what do you guys think? I'm completely at a loss. I don't think most of these upvotes were legitimate, and while it's exciting to think that I may get some exposure and some money from this, if that post is just a random flash in the bag thing then I'm more worried than anything that something weird is going on. I don't think it's sustainable for a post to suddenly blow up like that, and slow and steady long time growth is what you want in the long run.