Right. He made 4M npubs. Right around that time nostr:nprofile1qqsr9cvzwc652r4m83d86ykplrnm9dg5gwdvzzn8ameanlvut35wy3gpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuegpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqcu9929 shot up a lot too, so I would have guessed that Ron or someone else used bots to mass follow will then too.
Everyone else has slowly been consistently rising for a year. But this is besides the point. My point is that it's a shitty metric that so many people are concerned with.