A discord server to be active must have its members inherited from a previous community or start out as an already established community. In failure that one of the previous traits is not established the server will ether transition into one of two outcomes:

i. Fade into inactivity

ii. Dissolve into an established community.

When a discord server is nuked a power vacuum is built. Popular associates of the server create their own splinters in an attempt to gain the members of the deceased server. (If successful) the splinters become the new established community so a cycle begins. The community becomes so far distant to its forefathers that the culture of the original server dies and thus the paradox continues.

This paradox in theory would mean that almost all discord servers can traced back to servers created in 2015 when discord first went public.
Person 1: I dont know how to make my server popular, everytime I make one it dies within a few weeks.

Person 2: Have you heard of the Discord Server Paradox?
by Vitrial June 20, 2021
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