That infographic was in the comments at Moviebob's GameOverthinker, in a comment by an irishman named Sabre and with response by me. It's in there, I know it, but I'm having trouble finding it.BloatedGuppy said:I was curious so I checked Kotaku. Looks like the meteoric fall directly coincides with a meteoric rise that was fueled by this entire controversy to begin with. Their post-fall levels are actually above or roughly equivalent to their previous peak, which was in April. So...yeah.Machine Man 1992 said:And they way shit's been going down, the journo's are losing even that. I've been hearing talk of advertisers pulling off Kotaku and Polygon, and there's that one infographic showing a meteoric drop in site traffic after all those "gamers are dead" articles.
Advertisers love how gamers flock to glorified gaming blogs, but if gamers aren't, they're going to take their ball and go find somewhere else that's profitable.
Kotaku has been click-baiting with sensationalistic rubbish for years. It clearly works for them. I highly doubt they're going anywhere. What's the other one? Polygon? What's the URL for that?
EDIT - Nevermind looked it up for myself. Exact same pattern, only Polygon's current level is actually quite a bit higher than their previous peak, and the downward slope is more evidently beginning to level out.
Can I see the infographic? Why do I suspect it only shows the last couple of weeks?
Sites had big controversy. It drove a lot of traffic. Controversy is dying down, and so are site views. News at eleven I guess.
EDIT: Found it! http://i.imgur.com/1wyEap9.png
Edit 2: Very sneaky guys, but look at the bottoms of those graphs; they only show until after July.