>>258668People that drove meaningful activity got jobs and whatnot and only have their private circles
Most people looking down at their phones are texting friends or consuming ai videos
There's something called a signal to noise ratio and things like politics, viral marketing and ai are noise
>>258691People used it as a social outlet and got obsessively attached which makes people do crazy shit like getting into internet fights and they made chat servers like discords because they were underage or retarded which makes it get really bad
There were also only 3 real tf2 servers to play on because dead game so people who hated anime and lolicon were shoving themselves in and trying to change it desperately
None of them play tf2 now because something that cool will never happen again and they get bored in any other communities