Rewards From Delegating to Boomerang Have Cratered

I have delegated to Hive account@boomerang for quite some time with very nice profits - with almost 4,400 SP delegated I was pulling in almost 10 SBD a day. It's crashed to maybe half that recently. It might be because they were targeted by Hive account@grumpycat, who is demanding that all vote bots limit their buying window to 3.5 days, ostensibly to prevent abuse (or maybe Hive account@grumpycat is just trolling us all for fun). Posts that used Hive account@boomerang were being downvoted big time by the cat, and this would explain why people stopped using Hive account@boomerang so much.

Hive account@boomerang submitted under duress. It's almost impossible to fathom how big an impact one rich dude (or duddete) like Hive account@grumpycat can have on the entire platform. He's throwing his million dollar weight of SP around and no one is interested in downvoting him back.

So now Hive account@boomerang has a 2.5 day buy window - why 2.5 instead of 3.5, I have no idea. But the votes haven't been coming in at the same rate.

Will it bounce back? I'm not sure. It's the best bot to delegate SP to, as it pays back 100% of the SBD used to buy the votes right back to the delegators, as well as some of the curation reward. So we'll see.

For right now, you might actually be able to get a larger vote than usual since less people are using it.