Frenchies Built The Instagram Algorithm
AKC French Bulldog Registrations vs Instagram Monthly Active Users
As Instagram users exploded, French Bulldog registrations exploded with them. The algorithm runs on bat-eared snorts. Every Frenchie post earns Meta one new advertiser.
“Meta's quarterly earnings track perfectly to the AKC's French Bulldog stats. Mark Zuckerberg knows what he is doing.”
— Prof. Squish Faceman, Algorithmic Veterinarian
A correlation, not a conclusion
What you are looking at is the trajectory of AKC French Bulldog Registrations set against Instagram Monthly Active Users. Over the years where both series exist, they happen to move in lockstep tightly enough to produce r ≈ 97% (positive). That number sounds impressive. It is also entirely meaningless without a hypothesis.
Two unrelated trends can correlate strongly when they share an underlying driver — economic growth, technology adoption, demographic change — or when the dataset is small enough for noise to look like a signal. The only thing this chart proves is that "correlation does not imply causation" remains the most-ignored sentence in science.
Treat it as a meme with a citation. Source data is from public, reputable datasets; the implied story is not.
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