"Is Justin Sun (Tron) about to acquire Steemit Inc.?
At this time, it's just rumors and nothing has been confirmed yet. If true, it's huge news."
https://steemit.com/steemit/@penguinpablo/daily-steem-stats-report-tuesday-december-10-2019
Fortunately I saw the commit by 
"According to the Mars Finance Weibo channel, Justin Sun said that his company had received two new companies during a series of acquisitions. Later, the secret source in TRON told Mars Finance that the plans to unite with Steemit are true. More than that, a Chinese news website Huoxing24 reported the same information, however, the article is gone from their website at the time of writing."
https://www.coinspeaker.com/justin-sun-tron-steemit/
Looking at the stats I think Steemit might need Justin to buy it.
Tuesday 10-10