"Coolest Continues Its Death Spiral in April"

Latest Room Average is BELOW 5 People!)

 

(Written 5/4/12 by ChristopherK2 for the Uglier MDers blog)

 

In hindsight, Coolest's dramatic plunge from an average of 7.8 people in January to just 5.8 in March may soon be considered their "good ol' days."  In April, the average number of people in the Coolest room again dropped dramatically, to just *4.8*.  One drop could be seen as a fluke, but two is a clear trend.

 

As with March, there were two ugly trends that were the main culprits for their decline.  Coolest entirely lost three more people: Feefers, Hooters, and Pretty.  Hooters was the biggest loss there because she had been a steady attendee for a very long time.  Now she's gone...

 

But the key factor was again that many of the other regulars decided to show up much less often.  What was a rush in March became a stampede in April. The most influential were monstrous drop-offs by Rooster, Sexydoll, Perky, Bak, Aint, and Ponie.

 

THE CUMULATIVE TOLL SINCE JANUARY

 

People entirely lost: Badest, Notwithout, SMPinkrose, Dee, Eminence, Legs, Muddy, Feefers, Hooters, and Pretty.

 

"Discrete Visitors" dropped from 40 to just 21 (only 15 if you exclude those who were around only a couple of times the whole month).

 

Alan beat out Beth for the largest overall drop, with both dropping by over 90%.  But there was plenty of similar misery.  The combined decline by a large majority of their remaining members (Aint, Bak, Beth, Perky, Ponie, Rooster, Sexydoll, Trikin, and Alan) was almost an incredible *75%*.  And even remaining stalwarts such as Pantry, Felony and Jmbjm plunged significantly.

 

CONCENTRATION

 

As the number of people drops and former "regulars" become "occasional visitors," their room becomes more concentrated in just a few. And most of those are Campers. Their current Top 5 (Zeeke, MAFIA, VOMIT, Wilson, and Jmbjm), for example, aren't exactly all-day Chatty Cathies.

 

I mentioned last month that their early-April peak was just 12 people.  That held for the entire month and, in fact, was the ONLY time their room reached double digits.

 

CANDIDATES FOR THE NEXT ZOMBIES TO VANISH

 

Several of their roomies have been dropping regularly over the past few months and are thus now in the "occasional visitors" category.  They could thus disappear at any moment.  So take your opportunity NOW to say farewell to Azacmon, Rooster, ResLend, Trikin, and Alan.  And perhaps even Beth?  And maybe you shouldn't count on Aint, Bak, or Sexydoll being around all that much longer.

 

BEST SIGN OF THE COMING END...

 

The VAST majority of the time, there are 5 or fewer people in the Coolest room.  The norm is 4, and 3 is common.  More than 6 is very unusual.  8 or more is a rarity.