The dev has been hoping a lot with it.
that is how 99% of the altcoins work. a fake hype and then a pump. take a look at the history of each altcoin and you will see that.
only bitcoin grows because of adoption in addition to hype from time to time.
With the lack of the miner's support and LTC SegWit will die ASAP. And i don't see anything was running before in SegWit signaling on LTC.
Totally fake. Their SegWit implementation is seriously no sense in all of the points.