Starting yesterday afternoon and continuing to this moment, Logos con Carne’s page view stats have exploded far beyond anything I’ve seen here in the thirteen years of this blog:

I’m pretty sure this is due to an automated process, not a sudden popularity. The number of visitors is roughly normal, even a little low today, so it’s one entity “reading” all those posts, and the click rate seems too fast for it to be someone actually reading the posts.

And, of course, no Likes or Comments, so I have no clue WTF is going on.

Anyone else seeing a huge uptick in stats? I’m a little freaked out about it. I’m not one to be paranoid, but could this have anything to do with the recent election? The only reasonable theory I have is that someone is training a pet LLM and picked my blog for source text. (Clearly because of the superior writing therein. 😏)

Many of us left field bloggers fantasize about popularity, but — after some initial excitement — this obviously isn’t that. But what is it?

Anyone else seeing this? (I just made that image, but as I go to click [Publish] the count is up to 4,715 and growing with every refresh.)

Stay low-key, my friends! Go forth and spread beauty and light.

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