I was at a popular Dutch festival in my state that draws in 600k+ people a year and got hit by diversity shock. At least 1/3 of the people there were jeet Indians, half were some variant of Asian. It wasn’t just smatterings of couples or small families like the white and non jeet Asians either, it was multigenerational groups of 6-20. This is in a state where supposedly the entire Asian population is ~6% from the 2020 census. So either the census massively lied or the infinity immigration under Biden was far, far worse than the illegals the right put the spotlight on. Mass “legal” chain immigration is the real killer and both sides are in support of it.

Other typical tropes were on full display, every interracial couple was with an obese-morbidly obese white wahman. 1/3 of the white people were Reddit tier gross, 1/3 were boomer tourists who looked happy as can be about their imported retirement plan littering everywhere and the last 1/3 were the only people apparently trying to maintain and interact with their cultural heritage. This festival is very Dutch and was at least very clean, the last time I went was 2019 pre Covid however. Magically with the diversity came trash heaps and littering, to the point the locals now have trash bins on the edge of their yard and a sign asking them to not litter. It’s a weird feeling watching the culture of area erode over time, I honestly doubt the Dutch part of the festival will last another 20 years.

Edit: forgot to add the social media rot culture was all over, people were lining up to take selfies and instagram pics with flowers instead of actual trying to enjoy the point of the festival. It was hilarious watching millennial/ gen z women putting on long sleeves over their spring dress to hide their tattoos when they were posing in the flower beds. Also we really need to ban fat women from wearing spring dresses.

Was doing some digging because I was bored and occasionally stumble back on wow classic for the pvp. The largest populated sever in all of modern wow is Area 52 which has 18k, 2nd is stormrage with 14k, third is Illidan with just under 14k population and 4th is Jubei’Thos with just over 10k per wowprogress.com, those are the only servers with over 10k active users currently there’s 3 servers with 9k, 1 with 8.8k, 2 with 7.6k. So on the top ten servers in modern there’s just under 109k active players, we can safely assume about 200k overall and being extremely generous maybe 250k.

In comparison per ironforge.pro numbers from 4/9/25 to 4/15/25, Classic SoD had 70k active users for what is basically wow vanilla plus. The 4 main servers have 24.5k, 22k, 12.5k and 10k population, again we see 4 servers with over 10k population. But that’s not all folks! WoW anniversary had 96k active users with the 4 main servers at 30k, 27.6k, 17k, and 16k, again 4 over 10k. And last but not least we have WoW classic cata which (at its lowest point currently) still has 111.7k active users. None of the servers in cata classic are over 10k however. What’s interesting is between the wow classic series there’s ~277.7k active users. Even with cross play overlap there still more activity on wow classic than current. This is even aside from Cata classic being in a lull until MoP releases in August.

Bringing this discussion up because the last post and a Forbes article from last year came up simultaneously in the past 24 hours. The Forbes article here: https://archive.is/MC2pV says that in 2024 human internet traffic only accounted for 50.4% of the total, and based on the rate of growth it’s safe to assume it’s now less than half versus bots and this isn’t even including real people who just copy paste chat gpt scripts. This is also the basis of the dead internet theory where your interactions aren’t real anymore, they’re with bots trying to shift the Overton Window.

Heard on timcast the actual numbers are ~8-12%.