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    [OC] "The Grinch" has overtaken "Santa Claus" in Google search traffic
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    [OC] “The Grinch” has overtaken “Santa Claus” in Google search traffic


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    Posted by spicer2

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    1. Wolfhunter9727 on

      I was wondering why all the pumpkin spice retards were now championing a character from a book they probably can’t even read.

    2. dweeb93 on

      I’m seeing the Grinch mentioned all the time on social media lately, I don’t recall that being the case in previous years.

    4. BreIlaface on

      Honestly, it’s been since the 2018 movie. Also people tend to not look up “Santa claus”, when referring to a specific movie, but people will look up “Grinch” to look for the movies.

    5. spicer2 on

      Tools used: Excel
      Data source: Google Trends

      I’ve noticed The Grinch crop up in quite a few marketing campaigns this year, and I realized sometime since the pandemic the character has become almost inescapable across billboards and social media algorithms. I sense-checked this with Google search traffic and sure enough, this year represents the point where he’s now searched more than Santa Claus himself across the world (in the UK and US, the Grinch already leads). The Grinch might have actually stolen Christmas after all.

    6. adeadrat on

      Is it weird that I’ve never seen the Grinch? Honestly think it looks like a terrible movie from what I’ve seen of it

    10. Berntonio-Sanderas on

      I’d be interested to see this again in January with all of December accounted for. There’s going to be way more people searching for the Santa tracker on Christmas eve, that I would expect this to even out. 

    13. gesocks on

      It’s an unfair comparison.

      The Grinch is the Grinch everywhere around the world

      Santa Claus is Santa Claus in a very limited part of the world.
      And even in that part he is more often simply refers to as santa

    16. sivvus on

      What about alternate names for Santa + alternate names for the grinch? It’s cool to see the correlation but people might be searching for Father Christmas etc which means the same thing. Grinch is the same in any language as a specific name; Santa has hundreds. It’s a cool graph but if you’re going worldwide it doesn’t really signify much.

      Fun graph though!

    18. Schmusebaer91 on

      that google trends bs is most often misinterpreted. it shows relative not absolute numbers.

    19. night_b4xmas on

      as far as this data being beautiful, huge miss on not making Santa red and Grinch green.
      (a y-axis label would have also been nice)

    23. OverflowDs on

      Wont searches for Santa Claus spike on christmas eve as people look up things like Santa trackers? Showing the data by the 21st of this year, but not doing the same for other years would bias the data I think.

    25. mikeyvalet on

      How is this “beautiful”. Interesting, maybe. IDK what happened, but this sub use to be about displaying data in a unique and visually stunning way. Not a a scatter line chart…