My favourite is still and will always be the negative reviews on Amazon for Yankee candles correlating with Covid outbreaks.
this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2025
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What's the story about that?
Just a guess based on "covid" and "candles", a ton of people negatively reviewed candles for not smelling good/right/at all, not realizing they had lost their sense of smell from covid at the time.
I know my spouse had the realization our cold was covid because we couldn't smell the candles we had bought (and smelled) the week before.
I had been a bit sick and I had the realization when I went to sniff some weed and I couldn't smell it. I'd been able to smell earlier in the day and it was a weird realization. I went around and sniffed everything I could hoping to get a whiff
It was extremely bizarre. I've had muted sense of smell and taste because of a sickness but never an absence of the sense
Conversely I woke up in the middle of the night with a cold and couldn't smell Vick's VapeoRub, which usually has an extremely strong menthol scent.
I got tested, talked to a doctor, and didn't have COVID. It's possible we lose our sense of smell sometimes with other types of colds too, but we never noticed because we didn't panic about it.
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Yankee candle rating dropped sharply (or at least statistically significant) during covid with reviews of them being negative because they had little to no smell.
Loss of smell being a covid symptom.
Edit: oh and yeah it would go up and down based on larger outbreaks. So it followed the early waves of mass outbreaks basically 1:1
Which is wild in retrospect because holy shit they smell SO strongly.
What's more surprising to me is that there's a big enough stream of reviews for a candle to see this effect.
People are extremely opinionated on scented candles it seems.
You got some responses but here is an article about it https://www.newsweek.com/covid-scented-candles-reviews-1551248
I tend to wake up every morning amazed that: A) We're generally still here and B) I'm specifically still here. Then the disappointment hits.
Don't give us too much credit just yet. Dinosaurs were around for about 180 million years.
Our earliest ancestors are about 2 million years ago, our closest ancestors are about 300,000 years and our actual ancestors who are like us are only about 50,000 years.
We're still just a tiny blip in earth's history and if we wipe ourselves out, it'll be pretty hard for any future archaeologist to figure out who we were and what we did, or even to know that we were even here.
Sure, but forget 50 kiloyears. Just considering the events of the last century is sufficient to make me marvel that we haven't sterilized ourselves -- and the rest of the planet. But, as you say, it's early days yet. I'm sure we'll manage to irrevocably cock it up any moment now.
I mean climate change might've already done it. Just need to wait 500-1000 years for the full effects to all take place.
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Dinosaurs is a clade, not a species. Humans belong to the clades hominoids and simians, which have been around for 13 and 42 million years.
or even to know that we were even here.
What about our megafauna extinctions, nuclear tests, mass biosphere degradation and destruction, the Anthropocene extinction event, the fish bones of 2-6 trillion fish we torture to death every year, the bones of trillions of monstrous chickens, anthropogenic climate change, plastic... and soon the upcoming anthropogenic climate-change cascade and the Anthropocene mass-extinction event?
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You find yourself on the planet of half-intelligent disaster hominids.
Ganbatte, xxce2AAb.
Thanks. I guess there's nothing for it but to venture deep into the woods at night, alone and carrying only a high-power laser pointer and a large sign reading "for the love of everything pure and good, abduct me!"
^(I^ ^consent^ ^to^ ^reasonable^ ^amounts^ ^of^ ^probing)^
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I was in the path of totality and there were so many glasses available to everyone around its hard to believe this.
I had like 5 seconds of panic because there was a gray spot in my vision after I accidentally looked at a baileys bead completely unfiltered through my telescope the second the eclipse ended. Turns out I just had a smudge on my glasses :P
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Why does the data for eyes hurt start before the eclipse even happened?
Surely it's just the sum of searches during that period, just to cover the interval. 🤷♂️
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human race = Muricans
ok
Plenty of stupid people everywhere.
Can confirm.
Humans do live in America, you are correct
Couldn't the search be, how do I see the eclipse without hurting my eyes?
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Definitely has to be pretty low in Buffalo NY...
...since it was fucking OVERCAST!
FML
Same in Toronto. I wonder what the results would be like from Sherbrooke, since we had crystal clear skies there.
... I feel like you teased me with a rickroll & then in fact left me hanging all deserted, intentionally.
Well done!
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That wasn't a problem where I live, it was totally overcast that day. Though I'm sure it would have had the sun been visible.
God bless the USA! ?
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