AI answer boxes are reportedly wiping out a majority of organic search traffic for some blog categories in 2026 — while others have barely lost a visitor, and the split comes down to one thing

A version of this story gets repeated in every publishing group chat I’m part of, and it goes something like this: AI answer boxes are eating the entire internet, every blog is doomed, pack it up. It’s a tidy story. It’s also wrong in a specific, useful way, because it treats every blog as if…