The idea of Couchsurfing became popularized by an American named Casey Fenton. It started during his trip to Iceland, where he randomly selected 1,500 people to ask for a couch to crash on. He got 100 offers, and Couchsurfing began. The website officially started in 2004, and surfers have skyrocketed since. It became popular in the travel world, and plenty of travelers resort to the website to find a place to stay for free. Couchsurfing became the go-to site of backpackers. It is a non-profit organization where volunteers donate and manage the site for free. During that time, Couchsurfing is at its peak. Plenty of volunteers donated thousands of dollars to keep the site working. Yet, in the midst of it all, its non-profit status started to become a for-profit organization. It divided the community, volunteers who passionately work for the site lost interest. It prompted the downfall of Couchsurfing. Few volunteers donated to the site again. Volunteers stopped donating money, and Couchsurfing started to fail and lose its non-profit status. Couchsurfing reorganized as B Corporation and failed to receive the non-profit charity status. It fell because the site began experimenting on charging surfers. This is why Couchsurfingn is failing. It never regained its popularity again. Few hosts and even surfers continue to log into the site, making Couchsurfing a failure.