This seems like a case of "I don't see it, so others don't either"

Do you want to see me chewing gum? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Don’t see ads for it anymore either. I kinda miss the old “how it feels to chew 5 gum” ones

I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum.

Not only is the plastic gross, but the artificial sweeteners are nasty.
Some of us don't taste sweetness, we taste the chemical.
Gum stopped being fun.

Doesn't help anything that most "gum base" has PLASTIC in it.

I chew gum every day.

I chew gum

I feel like the consumption of gum has shifted from just chewing it to being a more glorified mint/on the go way to brush your teeth.

Well, it's in their mouth, duh.

I got offered some gum on the a plane ride the other day and it really made me to stop and think how I went from doing that every time to not doing it for years.

Why is all made with fake sugar now. That shit hurts my stomach

They're probably vaping instead.

I smoked for about 10 years and replaced that with vaping. Then I replaced vaping with chewing gum in January.

I chew 2 pieces of Extra 6-7 times a day and Blockheads multivitamin gum twice a day.

I also carry strips of foil I can spit into if I'm at my desk or not near a bin.

It's me. I'm singlehandedly keeping the gum industry alive.

Im not big on chewing literal microplastics… I used to love chewing gum before I learned that though

You don't know what I see and don't see. How dare you.

All out. Time to kick ass.

I see it occasionally. I wonder if it dropped in popularity when cigarettes did. And everyone has their heads up their phones. So they are less observant of what's going on around them, and maybe there's less demand for walking-around-diversions like gum.

If I see a balding, shorter guy with a buzz cut and a tan line on his face from his wrap around sunglasses, I expect him to be chewing gum.