What Determines The Top Deviations Listing?

Hi there, my fellow Deviants, how are you doing today? I have a few questions for you, maybe someone has some answers:

Have you recently looked at the the Popular 24h and 8h listings on here and if so then did you notice some changes as to what works are occupying these top spots? No, I don't mean the new format and design, but the actual deviations?

I personally believe that the 8h listing is pretty much as it always was, but the 24h listing seems to evaluate tops completely different, with heavily favoring none-photographic categories (and fringe photographic categories).

To give you an example, the deviation I posted last Tuesday received over 750 favs (and 80 comments plus loads of group acceptances and invites) within the first 8h to maintain a spot in the top 4, but as soon as the 8h were up it disappeared from the top 120, while easily having better stats than most deviations that were in the top 24.

And I noticed that this is not only concerning my photographs, but works from awesome photographers alike. So I begin to wonder if this is an indication that deviantArt is shifting its focus into the other categories! If so then that is fine, but probably not for me.

Any comment?

Ingo