In what way? In terms of Fav's or comments? I imagine a lot of americans are currently doing thanksgiving stuff so probs not best weekend to post stuff

I understand just didn't expect it to be so much
As if it wasn't like this in previous years or other holidays. I also look at other authors and it seems like they have everything okay with favs and else, as if I'm the problem idk??

It's hard to pin down what it could be. It's possible that your work has saturated your audience so much that only newer and more exotic things cause them to click on it and thus fav and comments more boil down to how comfortable people feel about commenting. I do feel like unless something just pops out for me (either subject matter or quality/emotion of drawing) i usually don't click on posts.

Personally, i don't comment much on larger artists work as I often feel it either goes ignored or gets lost in the other comments and i feel that sentiment is quite general. If you have other places where you actually are (like your own personal discord server or telegram) people who comment there aren't likely to comment here.

in all fairness i read journals/comments BEFORE checking the art when i hit FA... meaning this journal came up before i COULD have seen any of the art posted lol