I’m seeing Britney, Bill Nye, and Boy Meets World. . . Everywhere!
You are conflating the data-stealing algorithms with “the internet”. You are shown content the algorithms thinks you want to see. Other people are not necessarily seeing it (I’m not for example).
I’m not sure that it is.
Google Trends only goes back to 2004, but using that:
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/2d9e3d22-5fed-4b77-bd43-571765c3e47a.webp

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/8d17a79e-03af-4a30-b88f-4f25cf594970.webp

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/43b58598-7feb-435c-8f43-4a28a9adf46d.webp

They don’t really appear to be surging in interest.
What sources does Google use for this? Because, if it’s web crawling, of course they aren’t going to show up.
It’s what people are searching for.


