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Demographics
Episodes · 12 months
13
Nov 2025–Oct 2026peak share, Jan 2026
Share of analysed episodes per month, Nov 2025 to Oct 2026: 0 of 3,584, 2 of 3,862, 4 of 4,115, 1 of 4,226, 0 of 4,731, 2 of 4,438, 1 of 4,230, 2 of 4,319, 1 of 4,515, 0 of 4,419, 0 of 4,624, 0 of 4,594.
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31
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31
took a position
Where they standLast discussed
4d ago
Nov 11, 2026
Who's talking
Top voices on this topicThe eight guests on the most episodes about this topic in the last 13 weeks, not counting their own shows or clips they were only heard in, most episodes first. VoiceRank (their score across the whole corpus) is shown for context and only breaks a tie. Each strip is that guest's episodes week by week, and the newest week is still in progress.
#Guest · last 13 weeksEpisodes, sorted, most firstVoiceRank
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Episodes on this topic, by weekEvery analysed episode tagged with this topic in each of the last 13 weeks, across all shows and whoever was on them. The newest week is still in progress, and recent weeks fill in as transcripts are analysed. Point at a name, or tab to it, to highlight the weeks that guest was on an episode.
All shows
Episodes on this topic per week, weeks starting Aug 17 to Nov 9 (the last still in progress): 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1.
Where they stand
Camps of opinion · 2Positions people took on this topic in transcripts, grouped by school of thought. The bar shows each camp's share of the people sorted into a camp. It is not a poll and not a share of any audience, and people whose position fit no camp are left out of it. Within a camp, people with demonstrated expertise on the topic come first, then those who reached the most listeners on it. Positions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
Share of people placed in a camp15 people
87%
13%
- Address population decline risks13 people · 87%
- Contest demographic change narratives2 people · 13%
Address population decline risks
Declining birth rates and demographic shifts pose serious, long-term existential, economic, and societal threats that require intervention.
13 people · 10 episodes
SS
Population decline will lead to severe humanitarian crises in countries without robust social support systems.
“It's places like Thailand where fertility is below one and the money is not there to support a big social security system for old people. That's and where the health system is not as strong or like India or increasingly African countries, those are the places where the death toll will become apocaly”
Chris Williamson · May 2026 · 5 episodes · 3.3M views on this topic
The world is experiencing an accelerating population collapse as the largest generation retires and no subsequent generation of sufficient size exists to replace them.
“in the entire Advanced World populations are aging at the same time they are shrinking and what other thing when you industrialize for the first time you don't just get roads and Rail and electricity you also get antibiotics and medical care so mortality rate collapses”
Triggernometry · Aug 2022 · 2 episodes · 1.5M views on this topicPM
The current era of global population decline is historically unprecedented because people now have both the capacity to control fertility and high life expectancies, which was not the case in the past
“I do not believe we've remotely seen a society where we've had fertility rates down below one and a half historically what we have seen historically is the black death or the 30 Years War and that cuts populations but it's tended to cut them across the board”
Triggernometry · Mar 2025 · 1 episode · 743K views on this topicContest demographic change narratives
Concerns over birth rates or demographic shifts are overstated, culturally biased, or represent attempts to maintain power structures.
2 people · 2 episodes
Hasan Piker argues that concerns about declining birth rates in the West are rooted in a desire to maintain cultural and social superiority rather than genuine demographic necessity.
“you only care about that if you ascribe like a certain value to the west and you think it's somehow inherently superior to everything else and you believe that there should be more people because otherwise if there are less people then it'll be overtaken by you know lesser uh forces”
HasanAbi · Aug 2022 · 3 episodes · 809K views on this topicSE
Shelly EUnrated
The speaker supports people having fewer children if they do not want to take care of them and opposes the reproduction of those with left-leaning ideologies.
“I'm equally fine on a personal reason that they won't be breeding more leftists so to reproduce. And that's personal. But philosophically, if you don't want them, you're not going to take care of don't have them.”
Pop & Politics · Dec 2025 · 1 episode · 5K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
In the transcripts
Episodes discussing this topicIncludes episodes tagged with a narrower subject. Each is marked with the subject it came in through.
70%
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Over time
Share of episodesThis topic's episodes as a share of every episode we analysed, in each complete month. We analyse more episodes every month, so a raw count would mostly show that growth. Recent months fill in as transcripts are analysed.
Complete months · first on record Aug 2022