@Parallel Black
I wouldn’t be surprised if younger people used AI disproportionately more so that probably is the case to some degree.
Part of that is likely because if they don’t have any drawing skills yet then that’s one way to do things if they want to show off their characters (I mean just look at all the Pony Town or ponycreator uploads people have done in the past which are tools for people in a similar way).
Part of it could also be though that younger generations are always more open to new ideas and whatnot and more willing to pick up such things vs say someone in their 30s who is already skilled at one method of producing art and less willing to change.
After all I don’t think anyone would be surprised to find that say most computer users in general are younger people (well maybe not quite as much these days with how widespread tech is, but certainly in the earlier days of the internet when it was a newer thing). That’s just how it be.
Beyond that there may be some inverse factor though, like yeah AI stuff rose in that period but the number of images total seemed to drop month to month other than in August, so perhaps some factor also caused fewer artists to upload things in general. Maybe a lot of artists are actually people in education (like college) and summer break is not free time but rather time they have to spend working another job. Who knows.