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It's all been downhill since 2007. Big Bang Theory made the normies think it would be fun to invade nerd spaces. iPhones brought tons of stupid people onto the internet. Economy starting to shit itself as the elder Millennials were leaving HS and college(this played into the Disney adult thing and other forms of toxic nostalgia).

WoD was pretty culturally relevant(VtM Bloodlines, the Underworld movies etc) but was too tied to Gen X/90's vibes. I liked nWoD but even that just doesn't work with the current year.

I'd argue you can't really group all DnD players together. You have the OSR reactionaries, the tourists who just want to have some licensed products to show off their nerd cred, the freeform theatre kids who just want an escapistic fantasy, the people who play fleeting Discord campaigns because they don't have IRL friends to play with, etc.