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Sunday18October 2026
Sources131of 208 · to 15:00 UTC

The number is what arrived in the 72 hours. Each trace is the domain’s 7-day window per 100 reporting sources, 17 Sep to 18 Oct, all eight on one scale; the lead is the open secret with the most sources a day over the week.

Reddit’s rooms are among the sources counted here. Figures made from them are shown while counsel reads Reddit’s terms, and the corpus licence does not cover them. Why

A line by sheet date with a gap where there is no sheet, ending at 4.6 per 100.4.617 Sep18 Oct
Tech, sources a day per 100 reporting · 17 Sep to 18 Oct

Both layers agree on volume; the domain's own number still will not move.

what
today
looks like

The board warms broadly today, six of the eight domains reading positive against yesterday's one. Work extends its lead and gets grounded evidence under it, a French strike movement and a disgraced founder's documentary turning buzz into box office business. Tech stays the softest domain for a third straight day even as Grand Theft Auto VI's launch trailer becomes the loudest event of the week on both layers. Fashion's quiet, radar-only gorpcore climb is the day's most interesting unconfirmed signal.

The read · workWork's lead gets ground under it
The read · fashionFashion's hottest climb has nothing on the open web yetEarly, and worth watching.
watch

Whether gorpcore's radar-only climb turns into an actual sweep story or stays a subreddit's quiet preference is the cleanest test today of early signal versus noise.

The two layers

What the radar counted and what the sweep read, kept apart. The day’s moves:

  1. the layers disagreeGrand Theft Auto VI's launch trailer becomes the week's loudest event on both radar's own youtube board and the open web, even as tech holds the softest reading of the eight for a third straight day.
  2. both layersWork widens its lead for a second day and gets its first grounded evidence this week, a French strike movement and a Theranos documentary's box office projection both confirmed on the open web.
  3. radar onlyFood joins tech as the only domain still reading negative even as six of the eight domains flip positive today, against one yesterday.
The layers agreed on 56 of the 120 moves in 30 sheets and disagreed on 7
Four squares a day; hollow squares are disagreement.··17 Sep30 Sep18 Oct
Four squares a day; hollow squares are disagreement.··17 Sep30 Sep18 Oct
both layers 56radar only 25sweep only 32the layers disagree 7

heard.brief.moves · counts of categories · as the brief tags them. A dot marks a day with no sheet.

People talking carry 86% of what the corpus hears on relationships
← press and chartspeople talking →halfrelationships86%body82%work82%language75%tech65%food56%fashion54%music52%● latest scan · each week since 13 Jul
← press and chartspeople talking →halfrelationships86%body82%work82%language75%tech65%food56%fashion54%music52%● latest scan · each week since 13 Jul

radar.climate_scores, upstream share by domain · tier one is the rooms the registry marks upstream: Reddit, Steam, YouTube, Hacker News, the forums · the dot is the scan of 16 Oct, the small dots each week since 13 Jul · pulled 17 Oct, scripts/corpus-charts/pull.py

In each domain

163 arrived in the 72 hours to 15:02 UTC, 18 Oct, newest first.

tech43 arrived
  1. Bad Vibestheatlantic.com
  2. Are We Too Political?theatlantic.com

4142 more on the listening layer

work1 arrived
  1. The Home Stretch Playbookfwiw.news
relationships1 arrived
  1. What Actually Makes a Strong Connection?powerofusnewsletter.com
body

Nothing arrived in the 72 hours.

What the open web turned up

The sweep’s 6 stories, each with its source and the stage it has reached.

emerging 3settling 3
emergingAI avatars built from stolen stand-up sets monetize themselves as thirst-trap contentWIRED, via radarsettlingA blockbuster trailer becomes a bigger measured event than the game it is sellingKotaku, via radarsettlingYouth and labor mobilization escalates from campus walkouts into a coordinated national strikeCNN, via radaremergingA new coinage names friendship kept alive out of obligation rather than desireWiktionaryemergingPop criticism starts naming the mainstream's narrowing chord vocabulary a problemThe Honest BrokersettlingA disgraced founder's self-mythology converts critical acclaim into real box office businessTheWrap

What arrived

163 stories arrived in the 72 hours to 15:02 UTC on 18 Oct, 99 of them in music
163 stories: music 99, tech 43, food 8, language 7, fashion 4, work 1, relationships 1, body 0. The music tower is cut at 14 floors of 25.99music43tech8food7language4fashion1work1relationships0body
163 stories: music 99, tech 43, food 8, language 7, fashion 4, work 1, relationships 1, body 0. The music tower is cut at 14 floors of 25.99music43tech8food7language4fashion1work1relationships0body

arrivals.domains · counts · measured. One window is one story, four to a floor. Music’s count follows how many music feeds are registered as much as the day; its tower is cut at 14 floors of 25.

As counted, the last sheeted week runs 13% lower than the first; per 100 sources reporting, 11% lower
Sources a day carrying each domain, darker is more.As counted: sources a daytechfashionmusicfoodlanguageworkrelationshipsbody17 Sep30 Sep18 OctThe same counts per 100 sources that reported that day.Per 100 sources reportingtechfashionmusicfoodlanguageworkrelationshipsbody17 Sep30 Sep18 Oct
Sources a day carrying each domain, darker is more.As counted: sources a daytechfashionmusicfoodlanguageworkrelationshipsbody17 Sep30 Sep18 OctThe same counts per 100 sources that reported that day.Per 100 sources reportingtechfashionmusicfoodlanguageworkrelationshipsbody17 Sep30 Sep18 Oct

counted.domains[].w.1d · counts, and a ratio of counts. Open cells have no sheet.

What the charts carried

On 17 October, 128 entries on Apple’s and YouTube’s six lists were not there on 16 October. The largest climb was Pod Save America, 36 places to 6 among Apple’s podcasts.

55 of YouTube UK’s 66 entries were new; Apple apps had 6
Apple apps6Apple books11Apple songs10Apple podcasts6YouTube US40YouTube UK55Trends US30Trends UK30
Apple apps6Apple books11Apple songs10Apple podcasts6YouTube US40YouTube UK55Trends US30Trends UK30

charted.lists[].new_n against each list a day before it · one tick is one entry, new ones dark · counted, not ranked · Google Trends lists are all new by construction

Apple appsUS

6 new of 52

  1. Twitch: Live StreamingTwitch Interactive, Inc.
  2. SnapchatSnap, Inc.
  3. Life360: Family Safety & GPSLife360

largest climb: YouTube, 41 to 16

Apple booksUS

11 new of 52

  1. Shore Trouble An Ellis Kane MysteryDavid Antocci
  2. I Will Find YouMeli Raine
  3. Sword of RageJennifer Anne Davis

largest climb: A Vengeful King Rises, 43 to 12

Apple songsUS

10 new of 52

  1. Lies (feat. Lana Del Rey)Zach Bryan & Lana Del Rey
  2. Lodi WhenZach Bryan
  3. Robot Killed The Working ManZach Bryan

largest climb: expectations, 27 to 17

Apple podcastsUS

6 new of 50

  1. The Ezra Klein ShowNew York Times Opinion
  2. 20/20ABC News
  3. 48 Hours48 Hours

largest climb: Pod Save America, 42 to 6

YouTube trendingUS

40 new of 61

  1. 🔴LIVE | SCUMBAG RAIDERS | HUTCHMF X KONA | FRICK A FAN…843,043 views
  2. Heal My Faith (Lyric Video) Kid Rock and Eminem'176,919 views
  3. GTA 6: NEW THINGS FROM LAUNCH TRAILER & MORE397,597 views

largest climb: Wanuga Tarugana(ft.Jah-Ben & Java Gee), 34 to 10

YouTube trendingUK

55 new of 66

  1. VERITY SPEEDRUNNER vs HUNTERS in Minecraft!212,865 views
  2. MOBLAND Season 2 Episode 6 Trailer Explained27,849 views
  3. GTA 6: NEW THINGS FROM LAUNCH TRAILER & MORE377,464 views

no entry rose since 16 October

Google TrendsUS

30 searches, all new since 16 October

  1. missouri vs ole miss10,000+ searches
  2. osu football schedule5,000+ searches
  3. harry & meghan5,000+ searches

ordered by search volume, as Google bands it

Google TrendsUK

30 searches, all new since 16 October

  1. real betis vs fc barcelona standings5,000+ searches
  2. claudia winkleman2,000+ searches
  3. manzambi2,000+ searches

ordered by search volume, as Google bands it

radar_charts_recent · each list read once a day, 17 Oct against 16 Oct · every title links to its source · YouTube trending is YouTube’s own list; a Google Trends search links to Google Trends

Wikipedia’s top thousand

On 15 October, 271 articles reached English Wikipedia’s thousand most-read that were not there on 14 October; 133 had not been there on any day since 5 July.

The highest first-timersrank · views
  1. GBU-43/B MOAB453,110
  2. Jake Bauers63,765
  3. Jeffrey Donaldson54,739
  4. Mariko Aoki phenomenon39,119
  5. Tomato soup cake34,228
  6. Nelson Dilipkumar31,952
  7. Rafael Câmara27,724
  8. Jake Lloyd26,646
  9. Nightwish26,038
  10. Links between Trump associates and Russian officials24,698
  11. Mirnaa21,496
  12. Emilio Sakraya21,349
  13. October 1521,289
First-timers a day, 9 Oct to 15 Oct
9 Oct 149; 10 Oct 120; 11 Oct 104; 12 Oct 102; 13 Oct 133; 14 Oct 101; 15 Oct 1331499 Oct12010 Oct10411 Oct10212 Oct13313 Oct10114 Oct13315 Oct
7,448 of 16,579 articles held a place one day; 97 held all 103
7,4481 day2,8992 days3,1493–61,4537–1385614–2742428–5525356–10297103days held · one rung = 100 articles, rounded
First-timers a day, 9 Oct to 15 Oct
9 Oct 149; 10 Oct 120; 11 Oct 104; 12 Oct 102; 13 Oct 133; 14 Oct 101; 15 Oct 1331499 Oct12010 Oct10411 Oct10212 Oct13313 Oct10114 Oct13315 Oct
7,448 of 16,579 articles held a place one day; 97 held all 103
7,4481 day2,8992 days3,1493–61,4537–1385614–2742428–5525356–10297103days held · one rung = 100 articles, rounded

radar_pageviews_board · English Wikipedia’s daily top thousand, CC0 · the Main Page and service pages left out; automated traffic is counted as Wikimedia counts it · 16,579 articles reached it in 103 days, 7,448 of them for one day

The open secrets

Slop led 40 of 96 domain-days and taste 39; gender, lonely and values led the other 17
Eight domains by 32 days, each cell coloured by the secret the brief named as leading it.techfashionmusicfoodlanguageworkrelationshipsbody17 Sep30 Sep18 Oct
Eight domains by 32 days, each cell coloured by the secret the brief named as leading it.techfashionmusicfoodlanguageworkrelationshipsbody17 Sep30 Sep18 Oct
slop 40taste 39gender 11lonely 4values 2

heard.brief.weather[].lead · categories · as the brief names them. Five secrets need five hues: the house’s three, then ochre and aubergine.

Relationships carries the most talk on all five of the five open secrets; 5 of 40 cells sit above their usual
sloplonelytastevaluesgendertechfashionmusicfoodlanguageworkrelationshipsbody
sloplonelytastevaluesgendertechfashionmusicfoodlanguageworkrelationshipsbody

counted.domain_system[].w.7d, per 100 reporting, against each cell’s own stamped days · bubble area is sources a day · filled is above its usual, a ring at or below

The rest of today’s reading

upstream and vernacular

Google Trends ran college football and English soccer heavy on both sides of the Atlantic

Google Trends ran college football and English soccer heavy on both sides of the Atlantic

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