Literally fake news. Apparently there are at least 180 uncritical idiots on lemmy.
sigh
Overstated
That’s not how Trends works.
Trends looks at searches for a keyword (or topic) compared to all searches performed (in that area) and then the data is normalized.
In short, Trends looks at “is it hot or not” (e.g., popularity of a term, NOT actual search volumes) and 100 is peak hot while 0 is peak cold. So that curve up today means it is starting to get hot when you compare to the rest of the data except that spike which is around when he dropped out. Narrow your view gap from 12 months to past 1 month and you’ll see a much different story.
Source: am former SEO and this shit was part of my daily job.
Right it’s not nearly as popular now as when the story broke (by a lot), but it’s more popular now than it was a month ago. Meh.
For sure. In any case, people are really stupid. 😢
I’m pretty sure comparing this spike to the spike from when he actually did drop out is exactly what they intended to do. They’re showing that even though this spike exists relative to recent weeks, it’s small compared to the number of people who were relatively on the ball.
TEN WHOLE PEOPLE are curious about Biden on election day???
I understand the graph isn’t labeled but I’m pretty sure that’s a percentage. I.e. 10% of the peak when he actually dropped out was searching it today.
The unfortunate drawback of democracy: these people get the same vote the most well-informed altruistic voters do.
They must be driving around seeing all these Harris and Trump yard signs being so confused
Maybe they think Harris is running for local/state office. Sheesh.
It’s easy to forget how uninformed a lot of people are
Behold the undecided voter. These people decide the election if they actually show up to vote.
My fellow Americans, please stop being ignorant as fuck?
It’s not their fault.
We’ve been cutting rich people’s taxes by destroying public education for decades.
I’m actually surprised thousands of my fellow Americans don’t drown staring upward whenever it rains.
We chose die alone aka “I’m a temporarily embarrassed, ruggedly individual millionaire” over live together aka “we live in a society.”
That has consequences we are now feeling at a new level. The Nordic nations understand this and are the happiest people’s on Earth because they get taxed massively and understand it benefits the society they live in.
That’s an absolutely foreign and highly contemptable position to most Americans. After all, If everyone gets their basic needs met, how can I have mooooaaaaar than everyone and shove in their poorie faces while they die in the gutter? And what good is wealth without that, amirite?
A nation as wealthy as ours need not have any economic losers dying in the streets and not being fed in school. We insist upon it, because America runs on schaudenfreude.
No lie, a few days ago, one of my coworkers, 22, said she thought George W Bush was the first president when some of us were taking about him.
I overheard someone while I was at a drive-through say that they didn’t know Biden was president. They thought it was still Trump.
Ugggh, seeing my idiot parents eat the onion on every damn election story not questioning a thing there fed…
It’s pretty disappointing.
[Kentucky accent] no deal
He dropped out? Waaaaaat?!
(Kidding. Kidding.)
I made sure to do my part. I wrote in Beau Biden!
Yeah! He had a heart attack and died!
And then Obama’s daughter took his place!
They think we can’t tell, BUT WE CAN TELL!
(This is sarcasm, because SOMEONE will take this seriously.)
The gay frogs jumped off the rainbow chemtrails that shot out of Brandon’s chest after his death.
They came to Karmala Obama with gold, frankincense, and aborted fetuses to deliver the prophecy.
