The Day I Became Popular On The Internet

The above is a line chart showing this blog’s daily hits for the past few weeks; it is not doctored in any way. As you may notice, it is almost completely pointless to look at, as most line charts are when one set of data points is in the 10’s and another set is in the 1,000’s. Also, as you may imagine, I became very confused when logging into my blog and seeing this. I was also briefly excited; had my audience of ten of so somewhat regular (meaning annual) readers blossomed overnight? Why the hell would my visitors jump overnight from a whopping 4 on April 5th to 3,904 the next day, and 7,805 the day after that? I hadn’t suddenly become more interesting, that much is for sure. Take another look:

Over half of the visitors to this blog, ever, have come here in the past three days. Depressing, yes, but also hilarious. What did I have to credit for this sudden success? The reason why became evident very quickly:

Lady Gaga.

Oh, the irony. My one paragraph blurb on Lady Gaga in my last article, along with the accompanying picture, apparently took hold in some search engines and became a top search result. In particular, the image of Lady Gaga I used has now become the 4th result on any Google Image Search of her. Google Image Search happens to be the same way I found the photo, in case you cared to know. I assure you it’s not a Tino Exclusive (TM).

You may also notice that while I now have in excess of 16,000 hits, I (hilariously) still have only 85 comments (and about 82 of those are from two different people). I’m thinking people are just searching for images of Lady Gaga in one of her trademark CRAZY outfits and don’t care much for the context it’s in, and certainly wouldn’t take the time to write a comment scolding me for what I wrote. In that case, whatever Lady Gaga is doing is working, because she’s clearly a big deal right now, and in some weird way I’m playing into it by making light of her CRAZY CRAZY act.

I’m actually somewhat relieved that my nightmare scenario of hundreds of angry Jason Mraz and Lady Gaga fans flooding my comments or e-mailing me or whatever to tell me what a horrible person I am for badmouthing their crappy musical heroes hasn’t come to pass. Should I be surprised Lady Gaga is blowing up? I guess not, certainly not at a time when Fast And Furious is the biggest movie in the country, but still, I feel this place is sort of tainted by all of these hits. The message was lost; an image of Lada Gaga in a blue one-piece, however, was not.

Oh well.

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