Mysteries of the Falling Downs dashboard

I'll admit right off the top I'm at the dense end of the retardation spectrum when it comes to "technology." In my world, technology means the power tools aisle at Home Depot. When I reformatted the page layout and did away with proper paragraphs - that wasn't me, that was Doublewide the cat walking over the keyboard. I stressed over that for a few months, and then I realized the numbers were going up, so why fix it? The numbers have been going up like crazy. According to the dashboard, it took about ten years for the first half million views. In the next five years, it added another million and a half. Those cannot be real numbers. For one thing, there's only 3 followers showing on the dashboard. Also, how can there be not even 400 comments on a blog that supposedly has well over 2 million views? And many of those comments were from one reader, Ken in Port Moody BC. Hope things are well with you, Ken! Here's my theory. A few years ago, the nascent AI industry started vacuuming up virtually all internet content to train their "Large Language" models. That explains my sudden popularity, in my opinion.