Google Trends measures the interest in various words/phrases as far as Google searches over time.
Below is Google Trends data for various atheism/agnosticism terms for the world as a whole. Specifically, for the terms atheist, atheism, agnostic, agnosticism and Richard Dawkins. The data goes from 2004 to present. Worldwide Google searches for atheism/agnosticism searches are greatly down from 10 years ago.
In 2011, atheist Jacques Berlinerblau declared: "The Golden Age of Secularism has passed."
RationalWiki is a wiki run by atheists/agnostics who are politically left leaning. It is predominantly run by "social justice warriors" (SJWs).
A RationalWiki editor who goes by the username ikanreed wrote on October 31, 2018 in relation to the declining editing of their wiki and the decline of the atheist/skeptic movement:
I think it's the massive reputation blow skepticism and rationalism itself has taken over the coarse of the last... I don't know, let's say 4 years... The intellectual clout of rationalism has suffered dramatically, look at the way people talk about skeptics today versus 5 years ago.
According to the web traffic tracking company Alexa, the Rationalwiki has lost global market share since July of 2018. In July 1, 2018, the Rationalwiki website was the 16,000th most popular website in the world. On November 2, 2018, according to Alexa, the Rationalwiki website was the 17,248th most popular website in the world.
The social media website Reddit used to heavily promote atheism and had the atheism subreddit on its main page. Since then, internet atheism has imploded (See also: Internet atheism)
A 2016 Reddit post entitled Why is everyone mocking atheism all of a sudden?declared: "Now making fun of religion gets you labeled as a neckbeard or edgy, when like 2 years ago atheism was the main driving force of reddit?"
A member of Reddit responded to the post indicating:
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A few years ago r/atheism had a "faces of atheism" campaign where people submitted pictures of themselves with some comment on atheism on them. It was so embarrassing and cringeworthy that the reddit mods removed r/atheism from the frontpage/main reddits because the reputation of the site itself was being tarnished. Since then, people started combining the (already existing) "fat neckbeard" stereotype with atheism and made parodies of the faces of atheism, like some ugly/underage fedora wearer saying cringe stuff like "intellect is my blade" etc.
