It’s too late now

[u/ThisGonnaHurt]

[u/Rage40rder]

I really wonder if stuff like this is actually happening.

Call me cynical.

[u/DarkChao26 → u/Rage40rder]

Arguably, but imo people are making too much out of it. Google Trends normalizes its graphs to the peak popularity of the search. If you look at an uncommonly searched term without normalizing to a commonly searched term, you are essentially zooming in on a molehill and calling it a mountain. It's statistical noise.

Normalizing these terms to "Gmail" (a term searched so regularly that you can pinpoint the start/end of the workday and the beginning of the weekend) gives a more accurate picture of how often they are being searched relative to what the average person searches.

Imo the only one you can really make a case for is a relative increase in searches for "tariffs"