Well the monkey did have help from multiple modding communities shadlos and more and ark youtubers also if i recall Shadlos himself said he'll make his Carcharo a stand alone mod if ppl voted for monkey and this was done during a time where apparently there was ppl who wanted carcharo bad mouthing upfromthedepths so yeah with backing like that and a push from modders its votes skyrocked
Having a whole discord following go through a vote would do a lot