Ok.
So I didn't want to post anything until I saw a pattern over a couple days, but I have now seen this happen for at least three days straight and I am beginning to think this is a pattern.
So I usually post my daily update around 4-5amEST because that is around the time I wake up and I have a couple hours to myself before the rest of the family gets up. Anyway I noticed a couple days ago that a couple hours (at most) later the backer total was around 20-30 backers less than when I posted. Now of course the total number of backers fluctuates throughout the day and goes up and down. However I was surprised to see so many backers fall off in such a short time. So I decided to check again, and sure enough the same thing has been happening for at least three days now. Currently the backer total is at 7,459 when it was 7,479 this morning when I updated.
Now the big issue for me is that this continual drop has at least, for now, not affected the backing in a negative way (outside of maybe that one day where it lost backers). However if we count just the days I have been watching this phenomenon the Snow C.A.T. could have maybe 100 more backers than they currently do, and be even closer to funding. The hard part is that it means the Snow C.A.T. has to make back a bunch of backers every day before going forward with positive backing numbers which makes everything harder and slower.
(Conspiracy theory time)
Could there be a dedicated group out there who are pumping up the numbers every night to make it look like the positive momentum is continuing? Then the next morning they pull their backing and repeat the process again in the evening?
(End of conspiracy theory time)
Anyway, as I said, I noticed this pattern and wanted to wait a few more days to see if it was playing out the way I was seeing things. At the least it is still gaining backers daily, but it just makes it harder with the constant daily drop every morning.