clubhouse has some unique market niches. Japanese ex-pat community, not really young ladies talking too each other around the world. Source: mrs wife, she has some "friends" around, listens it a lot, sometimes chats, sometimes gets little parcels sent from somewhere (Germany, Israel, Russia), some biscuits or local snacks inside.

Or people just tired of all the snobs and pseudo intellectuals that had infested the platform and went back to their podcasts?