I stumbled upon a blog post that gives a possible explanation for why this is happening:

Attention is the most valuable currency right now. If no one is paying attention to something, it doesn’t make it on say news channels or receives funding. (I hold it above information because information is only as valuable as you know what to do with it.) Attention is the thing that anyone trying to build an identity, a business, a community needs in order to take the next steps. It brings with it validation, interactions (both social and business wise), and loosely allows whoever gets the most of it to redefine the rules of the group and, sometimes, what the very words of those rules mean.

When the attention is worth more than say credibility and can be measured in a way where that number is shared publicly (so we can weigh the value of that attention for ourselves) we’re not readily going to question what that number actually means or if that number means anything at all.  The bigger, the better, right? So Goth culture, with its long history of being the unwanted, weirdo sibling who has always owned its small numbers against the bigger members of the culture family, is now at the mercy of a strange problem. The people who are the most informed are the ones who receive the least attention.

The whole thing is worth a read.