ALON.WTF PRESENTS · EXPERIMENT 016

🌦 SOCIAL-FORECAST

The nightly news weather segment, except the region is a social topic and the rain is engagement. Top creators are cities on the map. Quiet ones get sunshine. And when somebody runs hot enough above their own weekly average, the severe weather desk names a hurricane after them.

PICK A REGION

flagship broadcast: /forecast/roblox

HOW THE DATA BECOMES WEATHER

hourly engagement vs weekly avg→ each city's weather — sunshine when quiet, storms when surging

surge ≥ 1.8× weekly average→ a NAMED HURRICANE, category 1–5

topic sentiment→ regional temperature — warm when the internet is pleased

rank overtakes (last 6h)→ tornado warnings on the severe weather crawl

top viral post→ a lightning strike, with the actual post text

real hourly series, extrapolated→ the 12-hour forecast — come back and check if we were right

The forecast strip is real: it extrapolates the cohort's actual hourly engagement series (trend + what this hour looked like yesterday), with confidence that honestly decays. It is occasionally wrong, exactly like your local meteorologist.

POWERED BY 🌗 LUNARCRUSH

Every reading on the broadcast — creator rankings, hourly engagement, sentiment, viral posts — is live social intelligence from LunarCrush, tracking creators across X, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit and Instagram in real time. Click any city for the creator's full LunarCrush profile.