It first started as a hobby, then lots of people joined due to some guy saying that “VidLii is 2005 YouTube!”. Then at least 75% of those people left because it was uninteresting.
However, Alexa seems to show that VidLii is somehow raising in popularity again.
However, It may be just new traffic from anons of 4chan, as the quality of the memes on VidLii seems to be fell straight outta /b/.