Pinterest is broken...
So my views have been collapsing for over a year, and I only now finally really dug in to see what's going on.
It looks to be a combination of several things.
Bugged links: Some of my top pins in my analytics, when I click on them, I can see the analytics, but the pin no longer goes to my webpage, it now links directly to the .jpg file on my website. How does this happen? I set all links as links to my article URL, now dozens of my top pins are linking directly to the image.
Stolen pins: Hundreds of my pins have been stolen. Downloaded and uploaded to other accounts. Not even with an outbound link attached. They look like normal user accounts that instead of saving, they have downloaded and reuploaded my pin, with my watermark. As a result their pin has hundreds or thousands of hearts, and mine is dead.
How do I report these en masse? Reporting them one by one is hard because even finding the original pin on my account is hard. But it's clearly my pin because it has my watermark.
Is anybody else seeing this? Usually at this time of year my monthly views are around 2-5m. This year it's 300k and falling. And from what I can tell, it's all due to the above issues/bugs.