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IndexCulture & MediaNo. 9 emerging

Danbooru

Anime-focused imageboard website

over 60×
vs baseline (short history)
year on year
+10.3%
per month, last 90 days
79
confidence / 100
12 2,937 5,862 8,786 where it used to sit Sep 24 Feb 25 Jun 25 Nov 25 Apr 26 Sep 26
Attention share · views per billion sitewide, weekly 104 weeks to 2 Sep 2026 Normalised, deseasonalised — sitewide swings removed

Why we think this is real

Six tests · all shown, pass or fail

The floor moved, not just the peak

Its quietest recent week still sits 4,162% above the old baseline. A news spike leaves the floor where it was.

42.62×

Not one event

Share of the last four months of extra attention that landed in its busiest seven days. High means a single story, not a trend.

25%

Not the calendar

How much of this topic's shape repeats every year. The annual cycle is estimated per topic and divided out before anything is measured.

54%

Human traffic

Bot and scraper traffic is flat across the week. Anything with implausibly low day-to-day variation, or with no weekday/weekend pattern at all, is dropped before it reaches this page.

0.98× weekend

Enough history to judge

Long enough to separate this year's move from last year's level.

1051 days

Confirmed somewhere else

Independent activity outside Wikipedia. Corroboration raises confidence; it is never required.

1 of 4 sources

What it is

Wikipedia

Danbooru is an English-language imageboard and image hosting website focused primarily on anime-style illustrations. It was launched in 2005 by a programmer known as "Albert" and is frequently described as one of the earliest and most influential "booru" style sites, using collaborative tags to organize…

Excerpt from Danbooru on Wikipedia, by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Trimmed for length.

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