I don't know if that's irony or not, but I do remember a couple of years ago someone here tried to start up a forum where members would get paid to post there.  They even hired moderators from bitcointalk--but the thing turned out to be not only a scam, since nobody got paid, but the forum got zero traffic.  The posts that members there did make were god-awful shitposts.  Just what you'd expect from a new forum that skims the dried up fecal matter from the bottom of this forum.

Interesting to see that most traffic is coming from Russia lately.  And I highly doubt bitcointalk is in trouble.  I'd like to ask OP when the forum was getting 30 million views per month.  That was probably in 2017?  If so, that makes sense.  People tend to flock here when the price of bitcoin does its little firecracker act and starts shooting towards new all-time highs, because then the shitposters start really getting interested in earning via bounties and whatnot.  And when bitcoin is down, like it is now, fewer people come here.

OK, that's basically what I was trying to say.  You beat me to it.