Reddit DAU decline due to AI bots and Google

Key details from [Cloudflare’s blog on internet traffic](https://blog.cloudflare.com/agentic-internet-bot-report/) July 1st that explain the lack of growth in DAUs

Bots: 57.4%
Human: 42.5%

AI Training Crawlers: grew to 52% of crawler requests by June of 2026 up from 22% in 2025.

1700% surge from AI agent requests from June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2026. The requests are

Ask anyone in marketing that is involved in DAU sites.