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No worries, buddy! The strange traffic shift you’re seeing is actually a little hiccup with GA4. You see, paid search events are wrongly ending up counted as organic or direct traffic – it’s a bug. You can track this issue online. Here you go: [Google Issue Tracker](https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/241258655).