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[edit]Anthropology Wikipedia page
[edit]Does anyone know why the Wikipedia page for "Anthropology" jumped to 6 million views on Dec. 25, 2024?[1]https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&start=2024-12-18&end=2025-01-07&pages=Anthropology 136.26.125.34 (talk) 23:28, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
- Probably just a glitch. Such things happen all the time. Shantavira|feed me 09:54, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Previously, a spike for views of a particular page was due to some device or other (a digital assistant?) suggesting searching for the topic as part of its default demo or a tour of its features. Obviously I can't remember any specifics but it was along those lines. So a reasonable theory is that a lot of people got a device for Christmas that did something similar, although "try asking about anthropology" seems an unlikely way to show off a new phone's AI gimmicks, but maybe. Perhaps the spike was a side-effect of whatever the gadget really said. Card Zero (talk) 11:08, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Clearly, this is a result of extraterrestrial aliens abusing this article as a source for humanoid porn. Homo erectus and relatives are depicted in full frontal nudity which may excite the libidinous erectiles in our solar system, the Milky Way or the Andromeda Nebula. --Cookatoo.ergo.ZooM (talk) 18:42, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Who are you to call us humanoid porn addicts, Earthling? Besides, we were only doing research. Yeah, that's it. Clarityfiend (talk) 21:56, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
- Pssst I've got polaroid snaps of nude bare-naked skeletons. What do you have to swap? Philvoids (talk) 17:17, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
- Who are you to call us humanoid porn addicts, Earthling? Besides, we were only doing research. Yeah, that's it. Clarityfiend (talk) 21:56, 13 January 2025 (UTC)