I felt the same (not that it really matters).
Do the math; there is at least one other person (the photographer).
Lighting, could just be a flash..
I think Dan and Ned know what they are doing in terms of reward pool and bots, etc.
There are a lot of bots out there; we know nothing about what may be involved there as well.
And then we have Whaleshares (I always wondered what Dan things of that).
I just wanted to say thanks for reading my comment, and if you are doing the other math, finding people who actually READ comments and blogs is a rare event in terms of the number of steemians. I believe HF-019 took care of some of the bot issues you have mentioned, but I also believe we will see some type of roll-back in HF-20 since there was a huge drop-off in real curation. A happy medium is out there somewhere.