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A lot of things unraveled around 2012.

https://wtfhappened2012.com

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The iphone + fb/instagram = kids spending more time on the screen than irl

Since, youth suicide, depression, anxiety, etc have hit record levels. Coincides with the smart phone adoption and negative emotion graphs.


I love how Covid lockdowns clearly show up in so many graphs going across the past few decades. It's going to be a real gem for researchers in general going forward.

90% of those charts have no notable change or inflection point around 2012.

That is an impressive number of graphs and very cool! I wonder if the author would consider repeating with KDE plots instead of splines, so the pretty shape of the curves has some statistical meaning also



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