A week ago freenode had 78644 users according to netsplit. Bragging about tanking your user count by 10k in a week (and its still dropping, it's at 66715 now) is a weird flex.
Well, some people had different expectations last week (2021-05-19 7:54 UTC):
> -!- ChanServ [ChanServ@services.] has quit [Killed (grumble (My fellow staff so-called 'friends' are about to hand over account data to a non-staff member. If you care
about your data, drop your NickServ account NOW before that happens.))]
> -!- ChanServ [ChanServ@services.] has joined #foo
> -!- ChanServ [ChanServ@services.] has quit [Killed (grumble (My fellow staff so-called 'friends' are about to hand over account data to a non-staff member. If you care about your data, drop your NickServ account NOW before that happens.))] > -!- ChanServ [ChanServ@services.] has joined #foo