General thoughts:
Nothing can stay on the top page of a newspaper/reddit/whatever forever, and the people who were interested or brought on by the last news cycle are already here.

I myself had only been tangentially following along with bitcoin and the last year and a half completely blindsided me. Now it is part of my Reddit front page, youtube subscriptions, and general information feed.

The tech is also not to the point that it can be easily be used by the general public, thus keeping the price in control of the speculation of the future value of the market.

Also, I can only talk to my friends and family about crypto for so long before the conversation gets repetitve/boring without them doing more research on their own.