The average person I talk to IRL on a daily basis don’t know what it is, have never used it, and likely never will.

ChatGPT.com is visited approximately 5.24 billion times each month. That makes it bigger than Twitter, Instagram, and even Wikipedia.

https://explodingtopics.com/blog/chatgpt-users

I don’t use Twitter and don’t know anyone that does but that doesn’t mean it isn’t popular.

Your argument basically amounts to “nu uh”.

ChatGPT has been the biggest Internet thing since Google. If it wasn’t, we wouldn’t even be talking about it here. I shouldn’t have to quote statistics for something well known.