The player base actually grew albeit by just a little ever since Matarika started handling Social Media

ive had it happen to me twice in my life, a customer came to my job one time and we were just shooting the shit and we were talking about oldschool indie games and he was like if you want a throw back have you heard of toribash? and i lost my shit xDand i found out one of my friends used to play too

warframe has changed since 2013 though

they got new features, alone the open world stuff was a huge thing.

whats the biggest player seen updaten for tb in the past 10 years? hairs and 3D items. nothing fresh in terms of gameplay.

Yeah ngl I was surprised to see Ancient play Toribash, we then bonded over the fact I 3-0d him 3 times in a row

If you didn't keep peeing on my dog, we wouldn't have broken up.

I'm glad you broke up with him. You can't even imagine how hard it was to get the pee smell to disappear.

It will tho I saw some ads on YouTube shorts.

my family thinks they're so funny

my family commits war crimes

Replying to the original question of whether or not it will ever grow back.

As someone coming back after years of not playing, Toribash is either going to make a comeback or is going to have a similar competitor show up. It has a really cool idea behind it, but there are some problems that make the game really hard to get into. Things like mod selection can be a pretty big problem for new players, and honestly everything they play should be in a box with low gravity (but maybe not mushu). The time it takes to play is also not super great, as you can wait for a pretty long time to end up losing very quickly. There isn't a lot of great solutions to that, and getting into the community can be pretty intimidating, especially if you want to join it through Discord or something.
I think that none of these are problems for long time players, as we have all found ways to cope with it. Toribash is basically the only reason I get work done for astronomy, and the community is pretty nice. A viral social media post could easily get people into the game for long enough that they would get past these barriers, but getting them to that point is hard. I am going to make a TikTok at some point to try to blow the game up, so I just hope that works.