Days Of The Week
by Berg
Image text: Not pictured: The elongated Halley's-Comet-like orbit of every Rebecca Black lyric.
First off- sorry all for the late post. I went to a Fucked Up concert last night, got jump kicked in the face, and didn't have it in me to tackle this when I got home last night. Without any further ado, let's dive in, shall we?
Since today's post is in itself a kind of explanation of social trends one is able to uncover using Google, I'm going to focus more on how to read the graph, and delve into an insight or two one is able to glean from it. Also, the real image is ginormous, so click on the tiny image above to see the full-size one in all it's glory.
As explained in the image, the graph is a polar graph, charting the relative strengths by which certain phrases are associated with certain days of the week. The closer a phrase comes to the center of the graph, the less the phrase is associated with whatever day of the week that is. Conversely, the further out a phrase is, the more associated with that day of the week it is.
Perhaps the clearest example of this in the above graph is the ladies night line, which has such a strong peak on wednesday that it goes clear out of the bounds of the picture. Likewise, church is so strongly associated with sunday that it goes off the chart there. And, not pictured but mentioned in the image text are the lyrics to Rebecca Black's mind-numbingly poppy hit "Friday," which I can only assume peaks so far out that no perspective which would show it would be of any use to us.
Also of interest are the the less eccentric orbits, for instance "big day" and "so drunk." The fact that these don't clearly peak on any one day indicates that (according to Google, at least) big days are spread out fairly evenly throughout the week (with a minimum on mondays), and so drunk tends to peak on weekends, though it seems fairly evenly split between fridays and saturdays (except in my household, where it peaks on monday afternoons).
Is there a lot of stuff I've missed here? Yes, but that's intentional- the fun of this one is finding the correlations and trends on your own. Hopefully I've given you enough insight on how to read the graph to enable a satisfying level of exploration. Share whatever you find in the comments!
Future Timeline
by Jeff
Image text: Not shown: the approximately 30,000 identical, vaguely hysterical articles titled "WHITE PEOPLE IN [THE US/BRITAIN] TO BECOME MINORITY BY [YEAR]!", which came up for basically any year I put in.
This comic uses the same strategy as comic 715, in which Randall uses Google to search for phrases and then charts the results. This one is charted as a timeline, whereas 715 was charted as line graphs.
2101 - War Was Beginning is a reference to the famous internet meme "All your base are belong to us". EDITED to add "are".
Besides the "All your base are belong to us" (EDITED to add "are") reference, there is not any other out and out references in the comic, the rest are actually results that you can find if you search using Randall's methods. Additionally, I'm sure "War Was Beginning" came up when he googled 2101 as well.
Numbers
by Jeff
Image text: The typical internet user (who wants to share) has an IQ of 147 and a 9-inch penis. Well, better than the reverse, I guess.
Let's start at the top. The first search is from the song "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall" in which every line is the same except the song starts at 99 and goes until the end at 1 bottle of beer on the wall.
The next six are self explanatory: number of boyfriends, grade level, penis size, bra cup size, age without having a boyfriend and number of glasses a day of water.
The next graph is a reference to Star Trek: The Next Generation in which Captain Picard is tortured when asked how many lights are behind the interrogator. There are 4 lights, but Picard is tortured when he answers four. The torturer wants Picard to admit there are 5. This has turned into an internet meme, of course.
The next graph is a reference to the Jay-Z song "99 Problems" in which the chorus is: "I got 99 problems, but a bitch ain't one".
The last graph is a graph of people googling what they consider their IQ number of google results for each IQ number. The image text references the high point on both the IQ and Penis graphs.