Yeah, it's a meme as old as the internet (and decline is older still), but I still think it's true. There are the rare occasions I've seen though where you have

Yeah, it's a meme as old as the internet (and decline is older still), but I still think it's true. There are the rare occasions I've seen though where you have long plateaus (years, not just a few months), sometimes even upswings (and not just from judicious ban-hammering), but you either die in relative high quality on those plateaus or live long enough to see yourself become a subreddit.