As the increase with worrisome events that have been happening recently

There really hasn't been an increase in worrisome events. There's far less poverty, war, or sickness than at any period in history. Current geopolitical tensions pale in comparison with what was happening back in our parents' or grandparents' day. And if domestic politics look polarized today... I mean, look at just about any decade in the last century. The assassination of JFK in the 1960s. The fuel crisis in the 1970s. The recession and bank collapses in the 1980s. Waco, Oklahoma City, The Unabomber in the 1990s...

It seems like almost every "prepper" channel, gear etc seems to stick to the idea that said person is going off to survive in the middle of the woods in the middle of nowhere or "Grab SKS go Innawoods" mentality.

I'm pretty mellow about people who really believe in the "lone wolf in the wilderness" thing. They are still prepared better than a person who is not prepping at all, and to some extent, I think there's strength in diversity of approaches. If everybody is planning to do exactly the same thing, we have common points of failure.

That said, yeah, the reality is that most people in this country live in large cities or in the suburbs, but a lot of our "prepper content" is produced by hardcore survivalists, which probably leads to some silly outcomes. Not just because of the "into the woods" meme, but also because your food preps need to be very different if you have a pond or a 1000 gallon water tank, versus if you're living in an apartment.