TikTok Is Heating The Planet
Methane Emissions vs TikTok Monthly Active Users
As TikTok users soared, global methane emissions soared with them. Every viral dance releases a greenhouse gas. Mother Earth is begging you to stop doing the Renegade.
“Each "skibidi" uttered on TikTok releases exactly 0.03 grams of methane. We crunched the numbers twice.”
— Prof. Viral Emission, Climate Scientist
How we paired this data
Stupid Correlations scans hundreds of public time-series datasets and surfaces pairings whose Pearson correlation crosses a comically high threshold. Methane Emissions and TikTok Monthly Active Users hit r ≈ 80% (positive) over the years they overlap — the algorithm flagged it, and we kept it because the headline practically wrote itself.
Crucially, no causal model was tested, no covariates were controlled for, and no peer reviewer was consulted. This is the statistical equivalent of finding two people with the same birthday at a wedding and writing a paper about destiny. Real research adjusts for confounders; we adjust the caption for laughs.
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