The unusual (trickle) drops part 2

I was watching this morning's drop very closely. Normally I would start seeing items at 3:15 EST and they would drop until about 4:30. I would then sometimes see drops on the hours starting at 5 AM. During that time AI would continuously be going up. Well, now I am seeing a small drop of like 4 items between 3:15 and 3:30 and then nothing after that. The AI items count is going down as well. It's now 4 AM and AI is down to less than 7000 and still dropping and my RFY has stopped at 4 useless items. My brother has VINE as well and his is exactly the same.

I am wondering if this is because the Chinese are still celebrating NEW YEARS. It started last Wednesday and usually goes 16 days. Hopefully, this is the case and things get back to normal.

It is a waste of time getting up early for the drops if this is going to be the norm. I always thought by getting up early I could monitor closely and beat the VH users but as we were discussing in the other "trickle" post if this is the norm then VH users have a huge advantage because now we never know when the drops are going to be. They get notified.

Is everyone else getting tiny drops from 3:15 to 3:30 and then nothing? I am headed back to sleep since absolutely nothing more is dropping and AI continues to drop. Its Kind of frustrating.

Hopefully starting a new "trickle" post is ok. The other one was getting very large.