You know, I think you are right, there’s noticeably fewer people talking about the new season in the episode discussion threads. Hard to say why that is, though. Maybe the fact that it’s been cancelled plays into it somehow? Could also be that it’s because internationally fewer people are able to watch it because it’s now exclusively on Paramount+ whereas years ago it was available on streaming services like Prime Video, which I suspect has more people subscribed to it.
Ignoring for a second whether discussion really has gotten any less, I feel like this show never really garnered all that much traffic and discussion to begin with. As much as fans seem to love it — and I know I certainly do — I suspect its nature as an animated comedy show and the fact that there's never been much of an up and down in terms of quality have resulted in a viewership that’s very content with the show, but doesn’t feel a great need to talk about it. People on the whole are just taking animated comedies way less seriously, so whatever happens on the show, there’s a big chunk of the audience who doesn’t view it as existing on the same level as the live action shows. In the first years of the show we had many people here freaking out about one aspect of the show or another (mostly Mariner’s zaniness, I guess), but those kind of viewers have probably tuned out by this point, come to terms with what the show is or feel it has changed to be less of a thing to talk about. At least these are my theories, haha.
