I had this same feeling when I was reading all the comments by the downvoters. Seemed like jealousy to me. Another point they made that is false is that his posts per day have increased to take advantage of this. This is clearly not true if you look at his timeline, which it seems they did not.
This is a sad week for steemit. On a week when the value of STEEM almost doubled we should be excited and celebrating and moving FORWARD...instead we have jealousy and divisiveness. Makes me sad.

EDIT: One more thing that makes me uncomfortable is the way they are calling out all his new 25 rep followers. Why? Don't we want this place to grow? The guy is posting on youtube and bringing in new steemians, how is that bad? I am really dumbfounded by this behavior. Fucking bummer!