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Then who is to blame since you have immediately ruled out the whales?

Steemit Inc makes the accounts, this is all about bad actors abusing the Steem Faucet, some of them can be whales but I highly doubt it, there are much more efficient ways to abuse the system if you already have Steem Power (and thus a whale).

That's the thing with power, isn't it? It's never enough until it destroys everything.