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almost 1 download for every human on earth
"BUT IT'S NOT POPULAR! ALL THE DOWNLOADS ARE FROM JANUARY 1ST 2005 AND NOBODY EVER DOWNLOADED IT EVER AGAIN! IT'S ALL A CONSPIRACY BY BIG TRAFFIC CONE! I DON'T WANT FACTS LALALALALA" --this guy
Big Traffic Cone is coming for you. It cautions us all. That's why it's orange with reflective stripes. You should have heeded it's warning. Be afraid, very afraid.
If all those downloads were from 2005 to 2015, and there's only been a few hundred in the last nine years, that would mean the popularity has declined.
But we don't know that. We don't know if the downloads have increased, decreased, or stayed the same based on the proffered numbers. We only know a flat number from the last twenty years.
Thats the point theyre making, not that its unequivocally unpopular now.
Also you're about three billion shy of one download for everyone on earth.
(to the entire public) STOP HAVING FUCKING BABIES
When I was in my prime it was 6 billion, and we liked it. Now get off my lawn!
The original article (https://www.lowpass.cc/p/vlc-five-billion-downloads-vision-pro-app) states
so there has been at least 2 billion downloads in the last 5 years. Also,
damn me if this is not the best Brand New Sentence I have seen in a long time. congrats!
LOL what are you even talking about? You ever heard the phrase "lies, damned lies, and statistics"? If not, you should look it up.