Consumption of tears
Its quietest recent week still sits 66% above the old baseline. A news spike leaves the floor where it was.
Share of the last four months of extra attention that landed in its busiest seven days. High means a single story, not a trend.
How much of this topic's shape repeats every year. The annual cycle is estimated per topic and divided out before anything is measured.
Bot and scraper traffic is flat across the week. Anything with implausibly low day-to-day variation, or with no weekday/weekend pattern at all, is dropped before it reaches this page.
Long enough to separate this year's move from last year's level.
No second source yet. Common for consumer and culture topics, which do not show up in developer data.
Lachryphagy is the practice of feeding on tears and other eye secretions. Certain bees, butterflies, and flies have been observed feeding on the tears of reptiles, birds, and mammals, including humans. Lachryphagous insects gather nutrients, especially sodium and proteins, from the tears. Lachryphagous feeding can be unbothersome or painful, with some feeding insects damaging the eye and introducing pathogens to the host. Lachryphagy has been studied as a form of parasitism, commensalism, and puddling.