In pursuit of a joke, you didn't actually answer the question: have you looked in the folder labeled "Spam" in Gmail? You might be receiving more spam messages

In pursuit of a joke, you didn't actually answer the question: have you looked in the folder labeled "Spam" in Gmail? You might be receiving more spam messages in your inbox than in the past, while Google continues to block 99.9% of spam messages sent. Both can be true, and the only way to tell would be to compare your Inbox to the Spam folder. Your experience might be worse without Google's performance being worse if the input stream itself is worse. Or the vagueness and the jokes, that works too.