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Putting more perspective on this - here's a week's worth of visits to Inkbunny. Obviously, this is an English-language site, which may cause some bias (particularly in areas where English-language competence is not seen as valuable) but we get plenty of traffic from elsewhere to show that the site is accessible and known in those locations:

North America    62.9%   229,901
Europe           21.3%    78,005
Asia              6.5%    23,909
South America     5.5%    20,005
Oceania           2.3%     8,339
Central America   1.0%     3,657
Africa            0.2%       818

What this doesn't show is that the proportion of traffic from North America is decreasing. Specifically, other locations are growing faster, particularly in Asia, South America and Central America, but also parts of Europe. It could be that this is a site-specific factor, but my gut feeling - based in part on the growth of conventions in those areas - is that it's a fandom-wide phenomenon.

Breaking that down a bit, you can see that even now the USA is the majority of traffic, despite a long tail (0.3% was unknown):

USA          55.5% 202,791
UK            5.4% 19,674
Canada        4.7% 17,272
Germany       3.8% 13,816
Mexico        2.7% 9,838
Australia     2.0% 7,338
Brazil        2.0% 7,212
France        1.7% 6,122
Japan         1.6% 5,992
Argentina     1.2% 4,501
Poland 	      1.2% 4,257
Italy         1.0% 3,545
Spain         1.0% 3,481
Netherlands   0.9% 3,256
Sweden        0.8% 2,875
Chile         0.7% 2,518
Finland       0.6% 2,189
Philippines   0.6% 2,115
Norway        0.6% 2,057
Vietnam       0.5% 1,893
Colombia      0.5% 1,837
Thailand      0.5% 1,807
Taiwan 	      0.5% 1,803
Denmark       0.5% 1,791
Indonesia     0.5% 1,788
South Korea   0.4% 1,620
Peru          0.4% 1,607
Malaysia      0.4% 1,576
Czechia       0.4% 1,475
Russia        0.4% 1,355
Ukraine       0.4% 1,321
Belgium       0.3% 1,269
Hungary       0.3% 1,169
Austria       0.3% 1,163
Romania       0.3% 1,100
Venezuela     0.3% 999
New Zealand   0.3% 966
Ireland       0.3% 963
Puerto Rico   0.3% 955
Singapore     0.2% 896
India         0.2% 874
Portugal      0.2% 743
Switzerland   0.2% 670
Hong Kong     0.2% 645
South Africa  0.2% 556
China[blocked]0.1% 506
Ecuador       0.1% 479
Costa Rica    0.1% 457
Panama        0.1% 456
Guatemala     0.1% 400
Israel 	      0.1% 400
Saudi Arabia  0.1% 393
Bulgaria      0.1% 367
Slovakia      0.1% 360
Belarus       0.1% 331
Croatia       0.1% 300

The USA may no longer be a majority of visits within the next five years, but it will remain at the fandom's core for decades to come. Similarly, while many languages are represented within fandom (WikiFur has projects in over 20), it may take a while to overcome the ~70% native English speaker bias. Those in the middle or upper classes who are most likely to have free time to participate in fandom may also be more likely to have English as a second language than their compatriots.

We're blocked in China, and were in Russia; some use VPNs, via e.g. the Netherlands or Vietnam respectively, to evade this.

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