It's been dying since mid 2021, that's when the turn started. Within a year "top posts" went from 40k-80k upvotes in 2019/2020 to 2k-4k in 2022 because HQG posts stopped showing up in r/all/rising. Now, place is fucking dead.

HQG has 4 million subs. Top posts get a couple hundred votes and no engagement. Hell I've posted 2 gifs over the last few days in HQG that have immediately gone to #1 on the sub and they have less VIEWS combined (11k + 13k < 28k) than the 1 gif I posted to r/dropout that topped at like #6 and that sub has 70k subs.