Pinterest has been declining for 5 years: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&geo=US&q=%2Fm%2F0h3tm0f,tiktok https://trends.google.com/tr

Pinterest has been declining for 5 years: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&geo=US&q=%2Fm%2F0h3tm0f,tiktok https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge... MAUs they report are drive-by temporary users (rather than engaged real users, like LinkedIn of Facebook), that get funneled to Pinterest by Google Image Search. Here is some background: Recently, it has been revealed that Pinterest reverse-image searches Google for uploaded images and adds the Google query result to the Pinterest image page for SEO: https://www.rankscience.com/blog/pinterest-image-seo-growth-hack https://www.rankscience.com/blog/pinterest-image-seo-growth-... This degrades quality of Google image search, for example this Reddit post on removing Pinterest got 77k upvotes: Reddit r/LifeProTips to remove Pinterest from Google searches: https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/hejbl0/lpt_when_using_google_add_pinterest_sans_quotes/ https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/hejbl0/lpt_whe... Earlier Reddit petition to Google to remove Pinterest from search results (66k upvotes): https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/85atho/pinterest_needs_to_be_removed_from_google_imo/ https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/85atho/pinterest_ne... Hacker News discussion of Pinterest's Google scraping: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23701998 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23701998 A very recent HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25538586 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25538586 Earlier discussion on HackerNews (1.1k upvotes): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16613996 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16613996 "Unpinterested" Chrome extension to combat Pinterest spam (10k+ downloads): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unpinterested/gefaihkenmchjmcpcbpdijpoknfjpbfe?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unpinterested/gefa...