…and, yes. I know there are actually lemmings there, and they’re cute as hell.
Your chart of world-wide interest in the search term Lemmy as a social network shows a peak in July 2023, probably caused by the Reddit API drama. Iceland, meanwhile, is curiously the country with the most imterest in this search term.
Google offers three categorizations for the search term Lemmy:
- this social network,
- the musician Lemmy Kilmister, and
- a film about his life.
I looked up interest in the search term Lemmy in Iceland specifically without applying any categorization, for all time and for the last five years.
On the first chart (all time), there are two noticeable peaks: one in 2015, the year Lemmy Kilmister died, and one in 2022, about a year before the Reddit API drama.
On the second chart (last 5 years), there are noticeable peaks every summer since 2022. I googled Iceland Lemmy, and stumbled across a bar, restaurant and music venue in Reykjavik called Lemmy. I’d guess it’s named after Kilmister. This venue’s Facebook page was created in October 2021. Some more research brought up a rock festival organised by the venue called ROKKHÁTÍÐ LEMMY which seems to take place every year since 2022 in late July or early August.
My guess is that Google, to some degree at least, confuses interest in this festival for interest in the social network of the same name.
I further looked up interest in the search term Lemmy as a social network in Iceland over the last five years and found a peak in November 2024.
I can’t really find a good explanation for that. Lemmy Kilmister was both born and died in the month of December, but this doesn’t explain an Iceland specific peak only in the year 2024, nine years after his death and 79 years after his birth. There was also a concert by the band GulaR bauniR at the Lemmy bar in Reykjavik in November 2024, maybe that’s the reason?
I was advised to compare the search terms with something else, as to make it comparitive to a “known control”.Maybe the November 2024 spike was caused by VPN users?
Bro wtf that lemming is so cute
There’s a Lemmy bar in Reykjavik
I wonder how many people are in the middle of that particular Venn diagram
It’s a pretty cool place. Good food and drinks.
Lemmy bar? Like an Internet cafe but with lemmy and booze?
I think it’s a punk bar themed around the late Motorhead frontman, but I only walked past it a couple of times
Oh damn bro, Ive never actually looked up lemmings before. That thing is like a super puffed guinea pig
I’m confuse. The mascot is a Lemming or a Lemur?
I thought it was a mouse
Certainly doesn’t look like any moose I’ve ever seen.
Well they do have their own instance: feddit.is
someone is apparently planning an Icelandic lemmy instance
That’s probably all me.
God damn, if I had the money, I’d escape to Iceland. Has been a dream for a long time now, but it just gets more and more desirable.
If you haven’t already visited you definitely should! I never had the chance to live there but did spend a couple of weeks visiting and it was awesome. Reykjavik, driving the ring road, all those cliffs, waterfalls, national parks, it’s all great. That was before this Lemmy bar existed otherwise I would’ve visited that too.
I’ve too wondered how feasible it would be to relocate and/or retire to Iceland but that seems pretty far off from reality.
Don’t worry, after we
invade and occupypurchaseGreenlandRed, White, And Blueland, I’m sure we’ll “purchase” Iceland, too. Then we can all go live there…Sadly, as I’m not from the US, it would not really help me (in fact, make it harder). Funnily enough, Iceland was actually occupied by the US during World War II - which they did pre-emptively, worrying the Nazis may pull off another stunt like with Norway and endanger shipping from there if they don’t.
Well, they do have cliffs
That’s how I see myself, but I’m from Germany.
And not as plushy.
