What is with the upsurge in New visitors?

[UniQueLyEviL]

I'm just curious.
Was there like a specific viral video or discussion about old school anime? The golden age.
Where'd y'all come from? HI HEY HELLO NEWBIES!!

[Daniel]

Hi. I noticed that to, and while I'd like to say that we just got really popular, the reality is that after looking into it I found that most of it seems to be from bots such as OpenAI opening tons of connections to the server while doing their web scanning. If I can find the time I'd like to do something about this, but for now at least you basically should just ignore the user counts that the forum shows. Sorry to disappoint...

[davemerrill]

I see some of the view counts are ridiculous, it definitely points to automated something doing something.