I kinda understand calibrating to an audience, but a caution is perhaps warranted about trying to only conform to opinions outside yourself. It's always good to be open, especially when you're learning (and we're always learning hopefully on some level). But the voice you should always be cultivating is your own.
Trying to figure out what people like is a bit like a puzzle, and I can see the gamesmanship of it as something to keep your motivation alive. But be certain you're not losing the voice inside yourself.
I mean, the corporate wisdom since the internet came onto the scene, and number crunching and data mining and creating business websites that get huge numbers of followers can sell for millions of dollars. All that is contemporary. But stats also show that it's far from infallible. Example of Amazon that follows practically every keystroke to know what TV shows to produce. They got it wrong because they thought the numbers rule, without someone at the helm with experience enough to spot a winner. And so they made a bunch of crummy shows.
Numbers are great when you have someone who can use them as an argument in the whole mix. It needs someone at the helm who has the ability to make decisions using their brain.
So please don't put too much weight on what you think the trending look is. . . unless that's also coming from inside you. Then it's merely another argument in support of what you're deciding to do.
And if you're not looking at this in the way I assume you are, and are merely going "Ain't that peculiar. And go fig, but they like my stuff, so that's a bonus and at least I'm getting noticed", then never mind.
But don't lose yourself is my caution, for what it's worth.
BTW, I though Eve was a little more zoftic. . .