I mean, that article was written in March 2023 (which I posted in the title.) I couldn't find a more recent one. Still, I wouldn't say that
five whole months qualifies as "dramatically" out of date.
What's interesting is that if you expand the Google Trends all the way from 2004 to Present, you get two peaks very close to each other: 100 occurs in April 2023, and the next-highest peak (96) is in July 2022. Third-highest is in August 2020 (69, nice), and April 2020 is the fourth-highest.
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When you look at it across only the last 12 months, though, it's more or less stable except for that spike in April:
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I noticed that there was a "+Compare" button at the top. It made me wonder how much of that spike was due to the Open Gaming License debacle earlier this year, and/or the release of the "Honor Among Thieves" movie. They definitely had an effect:
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