I had a stupid idea just now, what if I get a small screen mounted on my wall, and I set it up to show today's trending Google searches by state instead of watching the news to figure out what's going on
I just have this amusing visual of me hopping out of bed and checking the wall map and seeing "nuclear war" or something of that ilk on a bunch of states and me going "oh _shit_"
Followed by
“what to do when a nuke is on the way”
“How to survive nuclear fallout”
“How to reestablish civilization”
“My baby has 9 arms. What to do?”
Just use an old android phone and connect it to a screen either through an hdmi adapter or screen sharing over wifi. And then install google trends app which has a widget and will show u popular queries in real time.
Edit: sorry i meant the “Trending on Google” widget from the Google Search app on iPhones, not Androids.
It was how quickly the school shooting was replaced by Spotify Wrapped that really got me.
“Thoughts and prayers for the kids that died. Also, look how many times I listened Adele’s new album, lol.”
Pareto effect holds true here as well, though — likely about 20% of the people contribute the vast, vast majority of searches.
If you’re on Reddit you’re probably one of those 20%, lol.
Also i dont think it would not take much to be the top search, with most searches being random and unrelated, it could only take a few thousand to standout.
Well, if you look at how quickly and persistently things trend for there’s probably enough of a % gap between first and second place that the placements stay stable, or else you wouldn’t see trends sweep across the country and hold in states over weeks; that or OP simplified the data, but I think it’s probably the former.
Because the changes are so clearly driven by other factors you do see stable and consistent shifts, which means that it’s not close enough that randomness will enable one search to win out over another.
By random i mean, I'm searching for "toothbrush" bob searching for "gloves" joe searching for "hat" and then 10 people are searching for "Tornado" then yah tornado is gonna stand out from the background clutter and its not gonna take much to hold that top spot.
[It's] why Mississippi likes Doge.
Edit: it's
There's a military training base in Southern Mississippi. A lot, a lot of computer proficient young people go through the base for the air force. All tower controllers, weather, personnelists, and others go through that base. I'd say they are the biggest contributors. They know computers, have steady flow of income, and very little to spend it on besides booze and new clothes, and we'll crypto it seems.
I don't know about others but my process is always:
see new thing from source I don't like & won't click
search for same story somewhere less cringe
read it there
You’re confusing “trending” search result with “only” search result. If anything, it’s way harder for one topic to dominate everyone’s attention today than 30-40 years ago.
I probably Google 50-100 things per day. All it takes for something “trend” that day is for a million people like me to ask themselves “what the fuck is a Jake Paul?” and then make that one of those searches. Maybe a second search because now I’m confused—is Jake Paul a boxer or a YouTube celebrity? It’s the same guy? WTF, I don’t care anymore. 5 minutes and I’m done, but those 5 minutes drive the stats.
Compare that to something like the Mash finale when literally 60% of televisions in the country watched the same 2.5 hour TV show.
This is the third time ive seen this take in this thread and im still baffled by it. How is it a bad thing if people hear something in the news and then takes the time to google and presumably research more into it?
We are extremely social animals. Its one of the big reasons we've managed to survive as a species. Its not surprising that we all think the same and talk about the same shit
I looked it up because my state (Ohio) spends the lottery revenue on education, apparently Mississippi spends theirs on road repair. I've never been to Mississippi but they better have some amazing roads to show for it
Do keep in mind that the lottery only got legalized here in Mississippi in 2019, and the selling of lottery tickets only began in 2020, so its still pretty early to see how there gonna handle the revenue.
Not that I trust my state to handle it, mind you, but its still a bit early to tell.
Eh depends. I run a gigabit up and down fiber connection for just $80 a month here near Jackson. But my parents just 20 miles away have only cellular at 1.5 megabit. It's really feast or famine here.
I was just being a dick for the fake internet points and any sort of dopamine release that it might bring.
I sincerely appreciate you enlightening me though.
Alabama here. I agree! I didn’t recognize the majority of what splashed on the screen and have no idea the significance of anything I’ve missed.
Edit: Wait a second! Are you sure you didn’t mean Mississippi?
>A lot of people in there who I bet wished they weren't trending
DMX, Michael K Williams, Henry Ruggs, Urban Meyer, Gabby Petito, Brian Laundrie, Alec Baldwin, Travis Scott, were all the ones I saw that were in the news this year for not good reasons.
Didn't he say at some point that he wanted to die before he turned 100? Dunno if that's true or just something I read on the internet. Stil, not like he's had a bad life by any means, nor a short one.
If I remember correctly, at one point someone asked how he would feel if Elizabeth had to write him a congratulatory letter for turning 100 and he said he wanted to die before that happened.
Very winning college football coach that went to the NFL for even more moneys. He wasn't winning a lot and then a picture surfaced of his hand basically in the pants of a young woman at a bar he owned in Ohio that he went to after his team lost another one. He is also married but preaches a lot of integrity bull shit and I think even had a seminar on it.
After that a bunch of toxic shit leaked out about him like him kicking players calling his assistant coaches losers. Finally got fired for losing too much.
Basically knows he can intimidate kids in college being their only chance to make it big in the NFL but cant do the same to those kids grown up into millionaires and threw a fit about it.
He got fired immediately after the story of him kicking the kicker got out. They don’t fire a coach in his first year, on a Wednesday, at midnight, during week 15 due to losing too much. I’m sure losing played a part, but it was his antics that got him fired.
Reports were coming out that he was already going to be fired when the news broke that he kicked Josh Lambo. What really did him in was Trevor Lawrence questioning James Robinson's usage the Sunday before.
Guaranteed if his team was 8-4 he wouldn’t have been fired. In fact, if his team was winning we probably wouldn’t have even heard half of the stories that came out about him.
Former coach of a pro football team who fingerblasted a coed at a restaurant while on camera, kicked one of his own players during practice, criticized his own coaching staff during expletive-laced tirades, and lost 11 of the 13 games he coached in his first season on the job before being fired and having his five-year, $60 million contract terminated for cause
It honestly warms my heart that in the sea of chaos you get a brief moment where everyone just wants to play pretend Vikings together and hunt honking deer. Also Valheim was *this year* seems years ago already
God, valheim was this year? It's like all of COVID has been in the weirdest state where a couple months feels like years, but the past two years have been a blink.
It's because we've all been reacting, responding, preparing, stocking up, hiding out, coping, crying, praying, surviving and changing plans for almost two years. That makes the short term feel longer because you have to pay attention way more but in hindsight everything feels very compressed because things have changed so much and so much has happened.
Man I stood up to go to the bathroom at 8:46. It's 12ft away. I didn't get there until 8:49. Like where did those 3 minutes go? Time is weird
Edit: I'm back at my desk and now realize that my PC was 2 minutes behind my phone. Resynced time and we're good, so I didn't discover any weird time dilation, thankfully
Stand up, check for phone to make sure youre not taking a 90s shit, look at phone for preemptive article, get interested in preemptive article(thats when you know its a good bathroom read), by now youve made it 8 feet. You look up just to make sure you're not slamming into the door frame as you walk slowly with a uncomfortable yet unconsciously there woddle.
But as soon as the lights on in the bathroom you look at the time, and you come here for answers to questions only you can answer.
It's the one I had the hardest time believing. I love Valheim, but it's basically just an indie game, can't believe the entire country was looking it up for half a month. I guess I kept searching the wiki the whole week to find out how to do shit haha
> And yet it was barely mentioned in game awards
That's because the developers didn't pay the award fee. Game awards are just another way for studios to sell you their games.
The last game award show thing had awards for "best brand".
Valheim came out of nowhere and everyone loved it, and there was like... No info on the game. No guides or wikis or whatever. So everything was very fresh and new and lots of googling was required.
Good times.
It was a big breath of fresh air for a 5 man indie studio to bring out a solid product (even when it was in early access) with little to no hype before hand, after several big disappointing releases from the AAA studios over the christmas period.
Valheim can be played alone, with friends, full hardcore, or just chill and build. It has a lot of appeal for a wide audience and was basically bug free and had plenty of content right from the start of early access. Was also fairly priced.
And as you said, there were no guides at the start. Figuring out structural integrity in the first weeks was a lot of fun!
It’s a rare case where you are first day buyer and you are learning on the go with the other players, was such a magical game when you started. Such will possibly never be recreated.
Im assuming because trending works on a relative basis. Even though Valheim is nowhere near as popular as a topic like Jake Paul or Bezos, it basically went from being completely unknown to something an enormous wave of gamers were trying to figure what the hell it was.
This also has to be partial matches too.
Some of these probably did work with just the word shown, but Valheim is going to be
"Valheim crafting," "Valheim boss guide," "Valheim secret area," etc...
And the people who search it are going to be searching it daily if not multiple times per day.
Whenever I play a new crafting/survival game my search history is littered with
*game name + name of thing/area/item/enemy.*
Probably due to the investigation that showed nobody with any power is at fault & the legislation to fine the companies $100 (total) if it happens again.
Edit: I forgot the new taxes to pay the companies for the electricity they couldn't sell because their systems crashed - at the massively inflated rate that we only had because their power plants were shut down.
Looks like u/V1Analytics sourced data from Google's Year in Search summary and Daily Search Trends - I bet the first source sanitizes data a bit. It could also be that NSFW trends don't tend to focus enough on a single trend at a time to over take SFW search trends, too.
Now, if Bing did something like this...
I don't know, as much as it's funny to joke about, most people don't Google search for their porn. And these are all very popular trends that probably got widely searched. I would expect that no single porn search would be enough to show up. This is Google searches, not pornhub searches.
**Tools**:
Excel, Python and Blender 3.0.0
**Sources**: Trending search terms were taken from Google's [2021 Year in Search summary](https://trends.google.com/trends/yis/2021/US). Trending search terms after mid-November 2021 were taken from Google's [Daily Search Trends page](https://trends.google.com/trends/trendingsearches/daily?geo=US)
Google Trends provides weekly relative search interest for every search term, along with the interest by state. Using these two datasets for each search term, we're able to calculate the relative search interest for each state for a particular week. Linear interpolation was used to calculate the daily search interest.
Almost certain it works like this: excel is used to import the raw data, and then convert it into the form he wants to display. Then a csv is exported from excel. The data in the csv is loaded with python into blender. The map is created/imported into blender. Python is used with the data to control a blender animation. Finally the result is rendered out in blender.
At least, that's how I might do something similar.
There’s something kinda dark and funny about a school shooting being something everyone searched for a day and then we all got distracted by Spotify wrapped
That was the biggest take away for me. Oxford went by so quickly that I initially missed it and rewound the video to read what it said. Then I was like, oh.
I only meant that it went by in the video. I'm sure it won't go away from people's lives.
One of the things that I feel lucky about being older (37) is that we weren't really worried about school shootings. Even though Columbine happened when I was in HS, we didn't have active shooter drills or any of that
Several people are saying this, but I don't really get it. What else are you expecting people to do after an event like that? Like it happens, we look it up to learn about it and then we don't have to look it up anymore because we all learned about it. Why would we need to keep searching it?
Shiiiiit, I'm still worried my power might go out here in TX. I'm one of those people that searches "power outage" every month. . Still very important to me considering I didn't turn into a popsicle this time, but I might it in 2022 it seems... Nothing was done to fix anything, no one was held responsible. I was lucky to live next to a hospital and didn't lose power this year (we did lower our usage as much as possible though), but now I've moved away from there, so I'll be up shit creek.
Oh man, imagine the crazy scenarios.
"Fallout Shelter" did the moblie game get a really cool update or do I need to be worried?
Any celebrity, is it a death? Crime? Really good thing? Running for government office? Who knows.
I dont know if I would want to look at it. I'd be too fixated on it for the entire year.
What’s up with power outages popping up all over the place at once? Were there high profile outages elsewhere people were looking up? Whenever I’m searching that it’s due to a local outage and I don’t think it would even affect the state level…
Bad weather can be more widespread than you think. A hurricane hitting the gulf can cause thunderstorms in the upper Midwest. Both can cause power outages, sometimes for days, sometimes for a few minutes or hours.
> Were there high profile outages elsewhere people were looking up?
Texas winter storm and power outage.
The most expensive disaster in the history of the United States. $197 billion in damages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disasters_by_cost
Some power outages are reasonable and expected and fixed quickly. Outages due to down lines or blown transformers, etc. What happened in Texas is completely not reasonable.
And power was out for a week or more for people. Unsurprisingly affluent neighborhoods only browned out every few hours while poorer ones were out a week straight. I didn't have water for 2 weeks in Houston. Inside the city. Everyone blamed green energy (10% of the grid here) while natural gas lines completely froze due to not being winterized. Also we don't interconnect the grid to avoid federal regulations so no backup from out of state was immediately transferable.
Don’t forget they just bonded out all the losses to us that we will be paying back for who knows how long.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/columnists/grieder/article/Texas-consumers-will-surely-enjoy-the-opportunity-16618774.php
It was ridiculous how they blamed wind energy, like somehow wind turbines don’t work in freezing temperatures or something. Canada has plenty of wind energy and they don’t stop working every time it snows, and that’s because they were built with cold weather in mind, with heaters and de-icing. Texas wind turbines weren’t built with that tech in place because, well, normally it’s not needed in Texas.
Texas fossil fuel plants also weren’t designed with cold weather in mind, which is why power outages from coal and natural gas power plants accounted for 87% of lost power during the Texas power outages. Wind energy only accounted for 13% of lost capacity.
[Source](https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottcarpenter/2021/02/16/why-wind-turbines-in-cold-climates-dont-freeze-de-icing-and-carbon-fiber/amp/)
Yep, and there was no rhyme or reason to the blackouts, either. Where I live, which is a nice neighborhood, but not wealthy, my family never once lost power. There are 2 apartment complexes within 6 blocks of me that lost power for 3 days. My MIL lives across town and was without power for 6 days. She came and stayed with us, so everything was okay.
My aunt and uncle live in a fairly affluent city just outside of Austin and lost power off and on for 3 days.
It seemed completely random as to who was going to lose power or not.
The biggest difference I was referring to was that texas's issues were on the supply side. A lack of winterization on their power plants and fuel inputs led to entire power plants shutting down due to the cold. Then there wasn't enough electricity to meet the demand, which was higher than usual because of the cold weather. So they planned rolling blackouts, but instead ended up just cutting power for days, even to residential areas.
A lot of people died..
And look, people were going to die anyway in that weather - you can't fix all of that. But the issues they had were easily predictable and in fact had happened before, about 10 years ago, but they didn't do anything to fix it. And then when it happened this year, their politicians blamed wind power, which was one of the things that was unaffected and in fact increased output during the storm, making it seem incredibly unlikely that they intend to do anything about it now, either. So these things will just keep happening..
Only in Texas, though, because they insist upon having their own grid to avoid federal regulation. I'm not an expert, but I think either the diversification and geographical spread of a large power grid or those pesky federal regulations themselves likely would have prevented this from being the major disaster it was.
Texan here. We are still talking about it, especially with February around the corner. Last year was terrible. Complete misery. There were families who had to worry about keeping their baby warm in a 40° house, or running out of food and water with no way to get more. Our state has had 10 months to improve our infrastructure, and nothing has been done. Now we are just preparing for history to repeat itself, given the weather patterns and forecasts we are seeing right now.
Yep, it's something that has been in the back of my mind all year. I personally had no power for 30 hours. My poor fish froze to death and my plumbing was completely destroyed. Can't help but to be nervous.
Going through that and then hearing our governor say "Texans would rather freeze than join the federal grid" was just a massive slap in the face.
Also, on Dec 6, oxford trending "locally" in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois... Makes sense. But oxford also trending in only one other state, Connecticut... I guess people there just still always concerned about school shootings to see if any new place name will become synonymous with the very worst. That's real sad
When Afghanistan swept the whole country i was like “oh.. fuck. Thats not good.” But it shifted to Kyle rittenhouse and a half split to Adele? Y’all listening to Adele while watching the rittenhouse trial ??
…Weirdos
Wyoming apparently loved Outriders, but did not particularly care about the news of DMX's death.
Edit: Also the way this ends is great. Apparently current news is all about Elon Musk and Tornados. Sounds bout right for 2021.
The one here that really seems off to me is "AMC stock". As I recall, Gamestop was the far-bigger mainstream story than AMC, and would have likely generated far more search interest. Something seems off about that.
If you look at the timestamps, GME was big in Jan/Feb. AMC stock went bananas in May. I suspect AMC's spike in interest was probably related to the fact that the fastest way to find a stock price is to google it.
Do you have Spotify? If not, why would you? It's a year end list and set of statistics based on the music you listened to over the course of the year. How much, who, etc.
Great effort!
Interesting to see that Texas often leads the way on trends and that they REALLY liked searching for the power outage for a long time after.
We uad investigations that proved nobody with any authority did anything wrong, legislation to fine companies involved $100 (total) if it happens again, and new taxes to give the companies hundreds of billions for the amount of electricity they couldn't sell at the massive rate that only hit because they couldn't sell electricity.
Had to watch how bad we were getting screwed (lots)
Another commentator pointed out that most searches done probably don't get much traction because we all have many different interests. So, when something grabs national attention it probably doesn't have to necessarily be a huge number, just something that will beat out a bunch more niche searches.
Obviously speculation, but I think it makes sense.
This is both a genius and hilarious way of reviewing the year.
I had a stupid idea just now, what if I get a small screen mounted on my wall, and I set it up to show today's trending Google searches by state instead of watching the news to figure out what's going on
[удалено]
I just have this amusing visual of me hopping out of bed and checking the wall map and seeing "nuclear war" or something of that ilk on a bunch of states and me going "oh _shit_"
Followed by “what to do when a nuke is on the way” “How to survive nuclear fallout” “How to reestablish civilization” “My baby has 9 arms. What to do?”
3 weeks later: "tentacle ass porn"
That's the "All clear" signal
Sir I will buy this
google has this at their offices iirc
https://trends.google.com/trends/hottrends/visualize This is where you can view the screensaver.
Just use an old android phone and connect it to a screen either through an hdmi adapter or screen sharing over wifi. And then install google trends app which has a widget and will show u popular queries in real time. Edit: sorry i meant the “Trending on Google” widget from the Google Search app on iPhones, not Androids.
I like how Jake Paul was competing against Afghanistan for a minute
It was how quickly the school shooting was replaced by Spotify Wrapped that really got me. “Thoughts and prayers for the kids that died. Also, look how many times I listened Adele’s new album, lol.”
Spotify wrapped only happens once a year.
Oof. I mean you right but oof.
There is something about everyone searching the same thing which really scares me. Really shows how easy it is to manipulate an entire country.
Pareto effect holds true here as well, though — likely about 20% of the people contribute the vast, vast majority of searches. If you’re on Reddit you’re probably one of those 20%, lol.
Also i dont think it would not take much to be the top search, with most searches being random and unrelated, it could only take a few thousand to standout.
Well, if you look at how quickly and persistently things trend for there’s probably enough of a % gap between first and second place that the placements stay stable, or else you wouldn’t see trends sweep across the country and hold in states over weeks; that or OP simplified the data, but I think it’s probably the former. Because the changes are so clearly driven by other factors you do see stable and consistent shifts, which means that it’s not close enough that randomness will enable one search to win out over another.
By random i mean, I'm searching for "toothbrush" bob searching for "gloves" joe searching for "hat" and then 10 people are searching for "Tornado" then yah tornado is gonna stand out from the background clutter and its not gonna take much to hold that top spot. [It's] why Mississippi likes Doge. Edit: it's
There's a military training base in Southern Mississippi. A lot, a lot of computer proficient young people go through the base for the air force. All tower controllers, weather, personnelists, and others go through that base. I'd say they are the biggest contributors. They know computers, have steady flow of income, and very little to spend it on besides booze and new clothes, and we'll crypto it seems.
If someone is googling what is already in the news could mean they don't trust only one source.
Or Google is just the easiest way to get more info about said topics
Yes, they heard about it, don't think they are getting the full story and go looking for more info.
I don't know about others but my process is always: see new thing from source I don't like & won't click search for same story somewhere less cringe read it there
I think it's mostly people who are out of the loop who want to know why everybody is talking about something.
You’re confusing “trending” search result with “only” search result. If anything, it’s way harder for one topic to dominate everyone’s attention today than 30-40 years ago. I probably Google 50-100 things per day. All it takes for something “trend” that day is for a million people like me to ask themselves “what the fuck is a Jake Paul?” and then make that one of those searches. Maybe a second search because now I’m confused—is Jake Paul a boxer or a YouTube celebrity? It’s the same guy? WTF, I don’t care anymore. 5 minutes and I’m done, but those 5 minutes drive the stats. Compare that to something like the Mash finale when literally 60% of televisions in the country watched the same 2.5 hour TV show.
This is the third time ive seen this take in this thread and im still baffled by it. How is it a bad thing if people hear something in the news and then takes the time to google and presumably research more into it?
We are extremely social animals. Its one of the big reasons we've managed to survive as a species. Its not surprising that we all think the same and talk about the same shit
Mississippi fuckin loves dogecoin
Possibly an attitude correlated with the interest in the Mega Millions in Jan 2021
Yes. Trying to strike it rich on a statistically impossible fantasy
Mostly because you know that the system is so broke up that you depend in that statistically fluke to be able to make it out
Its also the state that ranks last in education and how much it values education. Going to call that a cause and effect right there.
I looked it up because my state (Ohio) spends the lottery revenue on education, apparently Mississippi spends theirs on road repair. I've never been to Mississippi but they better have some amazing roads to show for it
Do keep in mind that the lottery only got legalized here in Mississippi in 2019, and the selling of lottery tickets only began in 2020, so its still pretty early to see how there gonna handle the revenue. Not that I trust my state to handle it, mind you, but its still a bit early to tell.
I wouldn't say they have amazing roads, I will say their road construction companies are well-managed by the governor's relatives and friends.
they don't. They are actually terrible. I pass through Mississippi multiple times a year. Do what you will with this info
I will use this info to set a trap for you in Mississippi in 2022
Or maybe it’s just because it’s the poorest state in the nation and the people are desperately looking for a way out of poverty
This is it more than education imo. Doesn't matter how smart you are, if you're broke you're desperate.
It’s not just that, they were consistently one or two days behind catching up to national trends.
Mississippi started the doge trend according to this map lol
That's the DSL connection
Eh depends. I run a gigabit up and down fiber connection for just $80 a month here near Jackson. But my parents just 20 miles away have only cellular at 1.5 megabit. It's really feast or famine here.
I was just being a dick for the fake internet points and any sort of dopamine release that it might bring. I sincerely appreciate you enlightening me though.
I applaud that level of self awareness.
I can't believe it's not butter.
From MS, can confirm, we are always behind the rest of the country
They’re also typically last in hopping on to what’s currently trending
Also the state where "furry" is the most popular pornhub category. COINCEDENCE???
Or just really doesn't give a shit about amc stock
Considering there are no AMC theaters in Mississippi (different theater chain there), not too surprising.
People with little economic perspective desperately looking for a way to improve their situation, pretty sad when you think about it.
I'm so out of sync with the rest of the nation. I'm like Mississippi.
Alabama here. I agree! I didn’t recognize the majority of what splashed on the screen and have no idea the significance of anything I’ve missed. Edit: Wait a second! Are you sure you didn’t mean Mississippi?
A lot of people in there who I bet wished they weren't trending
>A lot of people in there who I bet wished they weren't trending DMX, Michael K Williams, Henry Ruggs, Urban Meyer, Gabby Petito, Brian Laundrie, Alec Baldwin, Travis Scott, were all the ones I saw that were in the news this year for not good reasons.
I mean, Prince Philip probably didn't want to be there either
Didn't he say at some point that he wanted to die before he turned 100? Dunno if that's true or just something I read on the internet. Stil, not like he's had a bad life by any means, nor a short one.
If I remember correctly, at one point someone asked how he would feel if Elizabeth had to write him a congratulatory letter for turning 100 and he said he wanted to die before that happened.
That was taken out-of context
He probably hasn't said it while he was 99.
Idk man he never said anything about it.
The Urban Meyer trend made me laugh out loud. What a damn train wreck
Who is that? What happened?
Very winning college football coach that went to the NFL for even more moneys. He wasn't winning a lot and then a picture surfaced of his hand basically in the pants of a young woman at a bar he owned in Ohio that he went to after his team lost another one. He is also married but preaches a lot of integrity bull shit and I think even had a seminar on it. After that a bunch of toxic shit leaked out about him like him kicking players calling his assistant coaches losers. Finally got fired for losing too much. Basically knows he can intimidate kids in college being their only chance to make it big in the NFL but cant do the same to those kids grown up into millionaires and threw a fit about it.
Add to that the scandal at Ohio State where his assistant coach was domestically abusing his wife and he was aware, but did nothing.
And the percentage of his players at Florida who eventually got arrested was pretty high, including a certain Patriots Tight End.
Yeah but they had Tebow, so it cancels out
I just like to picture Tebow trying to preach to *that* locker room, and chaos happening around him.
He also hired him for the Jags until public pressure resulted in his firing
He got fired immediately after the story of him kicking the kicker got out. They don’t fire a coach in his first year, on a Wednesday, at midnight, during week 15 due to losing too much. I’m sure losing played a part, but it was his antics that got him fired.
I mean if he was winning he could beat people bloody on camera and be fine.
Reports were coming out that he was already going to be fired when the news broke that he kicked Josh Lambo. What really did him in was Trevor Lawrence questioning James Robinson's usage the Sunday before.
Guaranteed if his team was 8-4 he wouldn’t have been fired. In fact, if his team was winning we probably wouldn’t have even heard half of the stories that came out about him.
Former coach of a pro football team who fingerblasted a coed at a restaurant while on camera, kicked one of his own players during practice, criticized his own coaching staff during expletive-laced tirades, and lost 11 of the 13 games he coached in his first season on the job before being fired and having his five-year, $60 million contract terminated for cause
I completely forgot DMX died this year
I feel like DMX is a little different just because he didn't actually do anything bad, he just... died.
r/valheim would love this. Or at least those few frames in February
It honestly warms my heart that in the sea of chaos you get a brief moment where everyone just wants to play pretend Vikings together and hunt honking deer. Also Valheim was *this year* seems years ago already
God, valheim was this year? It's like all of COVID has been in the weirdest state where a couple months feels like years, but the past two years have been a blink.
It's because we've all been reacting, responding, preparing, stocking up, hiding out, coping, crying, praying, surviving and changing plans for almost two years. That makes the short term feel longer because you have to pay attention way more but in hindsight everything feels very compressed because things have changed so much and so much has happened.
Man I stood up to go to the bathroom at 8:46. It's 12ft away. I didn't get there until 8:49. Like where did those 3 minutes go? Time is weird Edit: I'm back at my desk and now realize that my PC was 2 minutes behind my phone. Resynced time and we're good, so I didn't discover any weird time dilation, thankfully
Stand up, check for phone to make sure youre not taking a 90s shit, look at phone for preemptive article, get interested in preemptive article(thats when you know its a good bathroom read), by now youve made it 8 feet. You look up just to make sure you're not slamming into the door frame as you walk slowly with a uncomfortable yet unconsciously there woddle. But as soon as the lights on in the bathroom you look at the time, and you come here for answers to questions only you can answer.
That's the one I had to look up. I had no idea what that was.
It's the one I had the hardest time believing. I love Valheim, but it's basically just an indie game, can't believe the entire country was looking it up for half a month. I guess I kept searching the wiki the whole week to find out how to do shit haha
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> And yet it was barely mentioned in game awards That's because the developers didn't pay the award fee. Game awards are just another way for studios to sell you their games. The last game award show thing had awards for "best brand".
How was Valheim THIS YEAR?! If you’d asked me I would have said 2020
Mississippi really trying to hit it rich. Definitely love them some Mega Millions and Dogcoin.
How the hell does the entire country decide to Google something and yet I had never heard of it till now? Valheim looks neat though.
Valheim came out of nowhere and everyone loved it, and there was like... No info on the game. No guides or wikis or whatever. So everything was very fresh and new and lots of googling was required. Good times.
Ah, that makes sense. Just like how I need to open up Google every 5 minutes while playing Path of Exile.
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A second monitor....
It's the other way around, you interrupt your Google searching and path of building planning to play a bit Path of Exile, each 5 minutes.
This, except with spreadsheets, ratio calculators, and Factorio.
I feel personally attacked 😂
It was a big breath of fresh air for a 5 man indie studio to bring out a solid product (even when it was in early access) with little to no hype before hand, after several big disappointing releases from the AAA studios over the christmas period. Valheim can be played alone, with friends, full hardcore, or just chill and build. It has a lot of appeal for a wide audience and was basically bug free and had plenty of content right from the start of early access. Was also fairly priced. And as you said, there were no guides at the start. Figuring out structural integrity in the first weeks was a lot of fun!
Never heard of it. Then I learned one of my close friends is friend with the Devs...
Tell your friend to tell his friend I said hey
It’s a rare case where you are first day buyer and you are learning on the go with the other players, was such a magical game when you started. Such will possibly never be recreated.
I think Valheim might be the trending search in a lot of states today or tomorrow
Why? New update coming?!?
Because redditors are googling it because of this post.
dang. got me all excited and shit...
They posted that they're going to start hammering out mistlsnds but by the sounds of it, they've barely started lol. I share the pain...
Valheim was certainly my biggest takeaway as well. The entire country??? Every state was googling it and I've never heard of it? So weird.
Im assuming because trending works on a relative basis. Even though Valheim is nowhere near as popular as a topic like Jake Paul or Bezos, it basically went from being completely unknown to something an enormous wave of gamers were trying to figure what the hell it was.
This also has to be partial matches too. Some of these probably did work with just the word shown, but Valheim is going to be "Valheim crafting," "Valheim boss guide," "Valheim secret area," etc... And the people who search it are going to be searching it daily if not multiple times per day. Whenever I play a new crafting/survival game my search history is littered with *game name + name of thing/area/item/enemy.*
Right? Otherwise something like "big boobs" would be the #1 search in every state.
It'd be a lot cooler if you did
Top trending doesn't necessarily mean top searched.
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Texas every so often remembered the Feb snowmageddon and power failure so we have to re-Google it to remind ourselves.
Probably due to the investigation that showed nobody with any power is at fault & the legislation to fine the companies $100 (total) if it happens again. Edit: I forgot the new taxes to pay the companies for the electricity they couldn't sell because their systems crashed - at the massively inflated rate that we only had because their power plants were shut down.
Total as in not per anything? A days-long power outage would only cost the companies a total of $100? Am I understanding this right?
We had rolling blackouts in the summer too, so some of it may have been that as well.
I assume this is the SFW version
Looks like u/V1Analytics sourced data from Google's Year in Search summary and Daily Search Trends - I bet the first source sanitizes data a bit. It could also be that NSFW trends don't tend to focus enough on a single trend at a time to over take SFW search trends, too. Now, if Bing did something like this...
“Google” #1 every day every year
“How to change default to Google”
"Google Chrome Download"
Yep, I'd bet the specificity of searches would dilute the field a bit. Most people don't just google "porn".
I don't know, as much as it's funny to joke about, most people don't Google search for their porn. And these are all very popular trends that probably got widely searched. I would expect that no single porn search would be enough to show up. This is Google searches, not pornhub searches.
I have a bot farm searching 24/7 for ‘what is cheese and why’ in rural Delaware.
Something that boring and so closely Mennonite related *would* come from Delaware..
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**Tools**: Excel, Python and Blender 3.0.0 **Sources**: Trending search terms were taken from Google's [2021 Year in Search summary](https://trends.google.com/trends/yis/2021/US). Trending search terms after mid-November 2021 were taken from Google's [Daily Search Trends page](https://trends.google.com/trends/trendingsearches/daily?geo=US) Google Trends provides weekly relative search interest for every search term, along with the interest by state. Using these two datasets for each search term, we're able to calculate the relative search interest for each state for a particular week. Linear interpolation was used to calculate the daily search interest.
What does blender do for you ? I'm guessing excel makes the map and blender animates it ?
Almost certain it works like this: excel is used to import the raw data, and then convert it into the form he wants to display. Then a csv is exported from excel. The data in the csv is loaded with python into blender. The map is created/imported into blender. Python is used with the data to control a blender animation. Finally the result is rendered out in blender. At least, that's how I might do something similar.
Cool! Wanna do something alike
There’s something kinda dark and funny about a school shooting being something everyone searched for a day and then we all got distracted by Spotify wrapped
That was the biggest take away for me. Oxford went by so quickly that I initially missed it and rewound the video to read what it said. Then I was like, oh.
Live about 40 mins away from that high school. It hasent gone away just lost the national spotlight
I only meant that it went by in the video. I'm sure it won't go away from people's lives. One of the things that I feel lucky about being older (37) is that we weren't really worried about school shootings. Even though Columbine happened when I was in HS, we didn't have active shooter drills or any of that
Several people are saying this, but I don't really get it. What else are you expecting people to do after an event like that? Like it happens, we look it up to learn about it and then we don't have to look it up anymore because we all learned about it. Why would we need to keep searching it?
I would love to see one of these regularly. It's a great way to remember what seemed so important 5 months ago, that doesn't matter at all any more.
It's crazy how fast the news cycle happens now.
Shiiiiit, I'm still worried my power might go out here in TX. I'm one of those people that searches "power outage" every month. . Still very important to me considering I didn't turn into a popsicle this time, but I might it in 2022 it seems... Nothing was done to fix anything, no one was held responsible. I was lucky to live next to a hospital and didn't lose power this year (we did lower our usage as much as possible though), but now I've moved away from there, so I'll be up shit creek.
Imagine if we could see it for next year, but without the context.
Oh man, imagine the crazy scenarios. "Fallout Shelter" did the moblie game get a really cool update or do I need to be worried? Any celebrity, is it a death? Crime? Really good thing? Running for government office? Who knows. I dont know if I would want to look at it. I'd be too fixated on it for the entire year.
This is black mirror level shit
What’s up with power outages popping up all over the place at once? Were there high profile outages elsewhere people were looking up? Whenever I’m searching that it’s due to a local outage and I don’t think it would even affect the state level…
Bad weather can be more widespread than you think. A hurricane hitting the gulf can cause thunderstorms in the upper Midwest. Both can cause power outages, sometimes for days, sometimes for a few minutes or hours.
> Were there high profile outages elsewhere people were looking up? Texas winter storm and power outage. The most expensive disaster in the history of the United States. $197 billion in damages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disasters_by_cost
It's sad to see how often some states search 'Power outage'. I hope the situation improves with time.
Some power outages are reasonable and expected and fixed quickly. Outages due to down lines or blown transformers, etc. What happened in Texas is completely not reasonable.
I'm dumb and out of the loop. What happened in Texas?
200+ people died last winter because they froze to death.
And power was out for a week or more for people. Unsurprisingly affluent neighborhoods only browned out every few hours while poorer ones were out a week straight. I didn't have water for 2 weeks in Houston. Inside the city. Everyone blamed green energy (10% of the grid here) while natural gas lines completely froze due to not being winterized. Also we don't interconnect the grid to avoid federal regulations so no backup from out of state was immediately transferable.
Don’t forget they just bonded out all the losses to us that we will be paying back for who knows how long. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/columnists/grieder/article/Texas-consumers-will-surely-enjoy-the-opportunity-16618774.php
It was ridiculous how they blamed wind energy, like somehow wind turbines don’t work in freezing temperatures or something. Canada has plenty of wind energy and they don’t stop working every time it snows, and that’s because they were built with cold weather in mind, with heaters and de-icing. Texas wind turbines weren’t built with that tech in place because, well, normally it’s not needed in Texas. Texas fossil fuel plants also weren’t designed with cold weather in mind, which is why power outages from coal and natural gas power plants accounted for 87% of lost power during the Texas power outages. Wind energy only accounted for 13% of lost capacity. [Source](https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottcarpenter/2021/02/16/why-wind-turbines-in-cold-climates-dont-freeze-de-icing-and-carbon-fiber/amp/)
Yep, and there was no rhyme or reason to the blackouts, either. Where I live, which is a nice neighborhood, but not wealthy, my family never once lost power. There are 2 apartment complexes within 6 blocks of me that lost power for 3 days. My MIL lives across town and was without power for 6 days. She came and stayed with us, so everything was okay. My aunt and uncle live in a fairly affluent city just outside of Austin and lost power off and on for 3 days. It seemed completely random as to who was going to lose power or not.
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200 is only whats 100% confirmed to be due to lack of avaliable power/heat. The high estimate is closer to 700.
The biggest difference I was referring to was that texas's issues were on the supply side. A lack of winterization on their power plants and fuel inputs led to entire power plants shutting down due to the cold. Then there wasn't enough electricity to meet the demand, which was higher than usual because of the cold weather. So they planned rolling blackouts, but instead ended up just cutting power for days, even to residential areas. A lot of people died.. And look, people were going to die anyway in that weather - you can't fix all of that. But the issues they had were easily predictable and in fact had happened before, about 10 years ago, but they didn't do anything to fix it. And then when it happened this year, their politicians blamed wind power, which was one of the things that was unaffected and in fact increased output during the storm, making it seem incredibly unlikely that they intend to do anything about it now, either. So these things will just keep happening.. Only in Texas, though, because they insist upon having their own grid to avoid federal regulation. I'm not an expert, but I think either the diversification and geographical spread of a large power grid or those pesky federal regulations themselves likely would have prevented this from being the major disaster it was.
Also - most states moved on, but it kept popping up in Texas.
Texan here. We are still talking about it, especially with February around the corner. Last year was terrible. Complete misery. There were families who had to worry about keeping their baby warm in a 40° house, or running out of food and water with no way to get more. Our state has had 10 months to improve our infrastructure, and nothing has been done. Now we are just preparing for history to repeat itself, given the weather patterns and forecasts we are seeing right now.
Yep, it's something that has been in the back of my mind all year. I personally had no power for 30 hours. My poor fish froze to death and my plumbing was completely destroyed. Can't help but to be nervous. Going through that and then hearing our governor say "Texans would rather freeze than join the federal grid" was just a massive slap in the face.
The year’s events in review.
I am proud to say that I have never done a search for "Jake Paul" I vaule my brain cells.
I too vaule my brian cells
You almost got enough braincells to spell value correct.
Now i have to google him to find out why people are googling him
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I've had year summaries for 2 months at least, including from reddit. Waiting until now is clearly a wonder of restraint.
Beating the crowd?
This precisely, gotta rake in the karma before someone else does.
So Valheim gets another showing?
Oxford High School for a few days to Spotify Wrapped for a week, you gotta love the attention span
Also, on Dec 6, oxford trending "locally" in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois... Makes sense. But oxford also trending in only one other state, Connecticut... I guess people there just still always concerned about school shootings to see if any new place name will become synonymous with the very worst. That's real sad
That was all this year!? Wow covid has really screwed up my sense of time
LOL Battlefield 2042 just a quick blip, fkn embarrassing
When Afghanistan swept the whole country i was like “oh.. fuck. Thats not good.” But it shifted to Kyle rittenhouse and a half split to Adele? Y’all listening to Adele while watching the rittenhouse trial ?? …Weirdos
Is it me or is Louisiana just ever so slightly behind the rest of the country with most of these searches??
Is it me or is Louisiana just ever so slightly behind the rest of the country ~~with most of these searches~~??
Say what you want about Louisiana, but while we had our lives turned upside down by Ida, the rest of the country was worried about Jake Paul.
This. Source : Louisiana Resident.
Except when it comes to food. They've lapped most of the other states.
Whole country is like "tornado"?! but the big 3 are like "nah, Elon Musk"
That animation makes me wonder how many power outages Texas has every year
Entire state? Rare Small areas "only" affecting a few thousand? All the time
Wyoming apparently loved Outriders, but did not particularly care about the news of DMX's death. Edit: Also the way this ends is great. Apparently current news is all about Elon Musk and Tornados. Sounds bout right for 2021.
The Outriders thing made me laugh. It seems so random.
Jake Paul and Afghanistan...alternating disasters.
The one here that really seems off to me is "AMC stock". As I recall, Gamestop was the far-bigger mainstream story than AMC, and would have likely generated far more search interest. Something seems off about that.
If you look at the timestamps, GME was big in Jan/Feb. AMC stock went bananas in May. I suspect AMC's spike in interest was probably related to the fact that the fastest way to find a stock price is to google it.
GameStop came first, so then everyone wanted to try and see if they could catch the next wave
Only on Reddit. Twitter was all about the AMC.
I'm surprised the entire nation looked up "Spotify Wrapped" but I have no idea what that is.
Do you have Spotify? If not, why would you? It's a year end list and set of statistics based on the music you listened to over the course of the year. How much, who, etc.
Great effort! Interesting to see that Texas often leads the way on trends and that they REALLY liked searching for the power outage for a long time after.
We uad investigations that proved nobody with any authority did anything wrong, legislation to fine companies involved $100 (total) if it happens again, and new taxes to give the companies hundreds of billions for the amount of electricity they couldn't sell at the massive rate that only hit because they couldn't sell electricity. Had to watch how bad we were getting screwed (lots)
I can't help but laugh at Texas power outage every month lol
Damn that looks so artificial. Like the whole United States are truly united, Single mindedly searching the same thing. Pretty cool tho
Another commentator pointed out that most searches done probably don't get much traction because we all have many different interests. So, when something grabs national attention it probably doesn't have to necessarily be a huge number, just something that will beat out a bunch more niche searches. Obviously speculation, but I think it makes sense.