Vent: Hit 10,000 views on my blog post about chemtrails and it spooked me bad

I run a small site breaking down weather modification patents and I hit 10,000 views last Tuesday on a single article about barium aerosol testing. That number shocked me because I normally get maybe 200 views a month total across all my posts. The weird part is I didn't share it anywhere new, no social media push or anything. I checked the analytics and the traffic was coming from .gov and .mil domains mostly, which feels off for a random hobby blog. Makes me wonder if someone's watching what we talk about in these conspiracy spaces. Has anyone else seen weird traffic spikes on a post they thought was low key?

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willowroberts1mo ago

Honestly feels like you're reading way too much into this. A 10k spike is weird but .gov traffic could just be some bored analyst or intern clicking around, not a whole surveillance operation. You're probably fine, nobody's losing sleep over your blog.

sandralee1mo ago

Hold up, let me play the other side here. You're jumping to conclusions thinking .gov traffic means surveillance, but it could just be researchers doing their jobs. Government agencies like NOAA and the EPA have to monitor all kinds of environmental data, including fringe theories, because they get asked about this stuff in public meetings and by lawmakers. A 10x spike from .gov domains might mean some office got a request to review your claims, so they assigned a few interns to read it and forward it around internally. And honestly, if the government wanted to silence or track you, they wouldn't need to browse from a .gov domain where anyone with a browser can see the IP. They have better tools for that kind of thing, so the visibility means it's probably just some bureaucrat doing a routine check, not a deep state operation.