“Schadenfreude” Google Trends Spike

If you watch a 7 day window it might be true, try a 30 day one and you might be surprise.

Does this even mean anything?

If you see 5 year trends, it shows random noise.

True, for a few days, there is a "trend". However, what the graph shows is "relative trends".

So, if there were 20 searches for a term in past 7 days, 20 per day, and on 8th day, the searches were 40, it means there is a 100% jump.

But if you expand the time period, and the last week you had 100 searches per day, then this week there is a 80% decrease.

These trends are mostly useful only in the long term.

I love how these types of posts get front page to get around the 'no politics' rule

Number 5 on the list: "United States Presidential line of succession" --eye-roll--

I chuckled and then pressed flag.

I contributed to this spike. I wanted to make sure I didn't mangle the spelling in my FB & reddit posts regarding President Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis. In case anyone is wondering, the gist of my posts was this: "For all the poetic justice or schadenfreude one may feel right now, this is really a very bad development."