>>57977074I went and analyzed the first Saturday of June since 2015 (Except 2018 because that's when the beta leak happened and would mess with my results).
This is the percentage of gooner threads created on those days compared to other threads. Every thread that was targeted or baiting sexual subject matter towards a character whether female, male or Pokemon was considered 'gooner'. Deleted threads were excluded.
It starts at ~2% in 2015 and peaks at ~19% today. However, I don't think this gives us the full picture as the catalog right now has a lot more gooner threads than that right now. I believe that's because gooners are more assertive towards keeping their threads alive vs. others. I'll have to consider different metrics to see what the real difference is. As anon said, if archive.org didn't blacklist 4chan we'd have a clearer picture.
At least this proves that there are way more gooner threads being made daily than in 2015 and that it wasn't 'always like this'.
Sources:
https://archive.palanq.win/vp/search/deleted/not-deleted/type/op/start/2015-06-06/end/2015-06-07/
https://archive.palanq.win/vp/search/deleted/not-deleted/type/op/start/2016-06-04/end/2016-06-05/
https://archive.palanq.win/vp/search/deleted/not-deleted/type/op/start/2017-06-03/end/2017-06-04/
https://archive.palanq.win/vp/search/deleted/not-deleted/type/op/start/2018-05-27/end/2018-05-28/
https://archive.palanq.win/vp/search/deleted/not-deleted/type/op/start/2019-06-01/end/2019-06-02/
https://archive.palanq.win/vp/search/deleted/not-deleted/type/op/start/2021-06-05/end/2021-06-06/
https://archive.palanq.win/vp/search/deleted/not-deleted/type/op/start/2022-06-04/end/2022-06-05/
https://archive.palanq.win/vp/search/deleted/not-deleted/type/op/start/2023-06-03/end/2023-06-04/
https://archive.palanq.win/vp/search/deleted/not-deleted/type/op/start/2024-06-01/end/2024-06-02/
https://archive.palanq.win/vp/search/deleted/not-deleted/type/op/start/2025-06-07/end/2025-06-08/