All one has to do is go to quantcast.com and search on daz3d.com, renderosity.com, and runtimedna.com.
That will give a pretty fair indication of what's going on, at least as far as US web traffic goes, at least up till the start of December, and the Dec. data should be in fairly shortly.

As far as all this other stuff, IMO it's just a sign of the times. In my 62 yrs, I can't recall another time when so many folks spent so much effort trying to make me mad at people I'm not mad at. :-)