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This post isn't intended to discourage people from playing at all, I think red99 is really good to feel an itch for a certain group of people, primarily people seeking a quick nostalgia fix since Red99 has an easier endgame situation than Blue. Having said that, red tends to go through phases where the pop temporarily goes up a bit and people talk about how it's on the rise as if it's going to hit 500+ (or even 100+ pop) periodically and it never does as the newcomers quickly burn out after getting their fix of nostalgia or get burnt out on the toxicity and emptyness of the overall server.

tl;dr play and enjoy the box but don't look too much into periodic spikes in pop as overall trends