I did not call it random. Please do not assess any disrespect into my post because of a word I did not use. I only looked at your numbers and why they were high does not matter for that. I literally told so. The somehow includes it being due to your hard work and people noticing it. But as I also explained, people can not notice it twice for the first time, with yours truly as an example.
Also, your new numbers reinforce my viewpoint. You went from 1k to 8k in about a month and plummeted down to 2k a month after that already. I would not call this graph showing constant numbers.
If those numbers could be split into referals, you could be sure, that people previously came from popular browse and now do not.
But even if so. What is cause and what is effect. And any popularity ranking reinforces itself by nature.