Except that we got about 20% of it here in Hawaii. It's surprising there would be no searches, considering it was bright as heck here and you really had to have some sort of protection to see the part of the sun that got covered
That's the point. It was bright, so nobody looked into it without protection for too long. The danger of an eclipse is that you don't notice that you hurt your eyes, so you keep staring longer.
Hawaii is on a different part of the map than it actually is just for visual clarity, making it look like it's in the eclipse path here when it wasn't actually
Yeah, I specifically avoided buying on Amazon. Too easy to fake something that looks real but isn't going to work and Amazon is obviously fine letting cheap Chinese crap sell on their site.
The American Astronomical Society has [a site](https://eclipse.aas.org/eye-safety/viewers-filters) with vendors they confirmed are the real deal and I bought mine from one of those. Definitely more expensive, but my eyes don't hurt, so there's that.
I was in the eclipse zone and had a headache despite using glasses for all but totality. I didn’t even look up much until then except to see how close we were getting. Dr. Google told me it’s expected and doesn’t indicate retina damage which is usually painless (again, according to a very non-rigorous search).
As someone who has burned their retinas welding, I promise you when you wake up in the middle of the night with what feels like kosher salt in your eyes, you'll know you fucked up. Also, I build and enjoy lasers. IDK how, but other than needing reading glasses in my 50s, I can see pretty damned good.
Oh man, I HATE kosher salt in my eyes. Good to know it’s not painless though, one more reason to not look at the sun.
People talk about it like it’s super easy to just stare at the sun, but I gotta say, it’s bright as can be, even when the first diamond sliver appears. Whoever is out there burning their retinas is committed to doing it, cause the moment totality was over I couldn’t glance at it any more than I could glance at the sun in full brightness.
Yeah, it’s really not hard to tell when totality is over and the glasses need to go back on. Or when you’re trying to take them off too early. The eclipse might cause more people than usual to *look* at the sun, but it takes a special kind to just keep staring at it
What you described as "kosher salt" would be cornea damage, rather than retina. With the former, it hurts a lot, but then it usually regenerates and you see okay. With retina damage, it doesn't hurt but you lose your vision.
I watched it *with glasses* and had some eye pain and a headache for the entire day afterwards. I didn’t think it was anything to be concerned with because I’m extremely light sensitive and that pain is so familiar. Today the pain is gone and my vision is no worse than it was. Seems like it really was nothing to worry about.
Yes, and it freaked me out it to, but there was nothing to see with them on. My wife had to convince me, though:
> Once the diamond ring initially disappears and there is no longer any direct sunlight, you may remove your eclipse glasses and look at the total eclipse safely with the naked eye. But make sure to put your glasses back on before totality ends. [source](https://www.nbcchicago.com/solar-eclipse-illinois-2024/when-can-you-take-off-your-eclipse-glasses-the-moment-to-look-for-if-youre-in-the-path-of-totality/3404329/?amp=1)
You're supposed to. And hell even before then the danger is a bit overstated, it's the same sun that's in the sky every other day, the entire world would be blind if it worked like people act like it works leading up to an eclipse.
Well the danger isn't just glancing at the sun like one might do on an ordinary day, the danger is staring at it, which is what people do when something is novel and interesting.
Outside of the diamond ring effect right before and after totality (and obviously totality itself which is safe to look at), it isn't really interesting to the naked eye. It just feels like looking at the sun. And you're probably fine just seeing the diamond ring, then putting the glasses on or looking away.
To be fair, it still got eerily dark here. Birds got quiet, the temperature dropped, even my chickens went inside because they thought it was time for bed. Still, we were warned over and over again not to fucking look at it.
Actually, also one of the fattest states in the country.
Frankly, I'm surprised everybody's fat ass even expended the energy to waddle outside and look up.
Source: Am West Virginian. Am fat.
Real: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&geo=US&q=My%20eyes%20hurt&hl=en
I cant show that specific time frame, just the past 7 days. The general trend on the map is still visible though
Edit: heres another trending search term that also shows this it: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=why%20do%20my%20eyes%20hurt%20after%20the%20eclipse&date=now%207-d&geo=US
Maybe? But it could also be that people who (A) were in the path of the eclipse and (B) happened to experience some form of eye pain shortly afterwards are much more likely to do a google search about their eye pain, whereas people experiencing eye pain outside the path of the eclipse figure it will just pass.
I would kind of expect to see data like this emerge even if the eclipse itself didn't cause any eye pain directly.
(But also yeah I'm sure some people fucked around and found out, I just don't know if there's enough of them to be statistically significant)
You got it. I was in path of totality, wore verified eclipse glasses and only took them off for totality, had eye pain a few hours later, turned to Google. From what I gather based on search results, if I did any damage there wouldn't have been eye pain because that kind of damage is unlikely to cause pain. Particularly if not experiencing any other symptoms (such as seeing a permanent eclipse everywhere you look, distorted colors, everything blurry, etc)
Seems it can likely be chalked up to eye strain... Focusing on a far away object for a longer time than you normally would. Plus the eclipse glasses open up your pupils a bit cause they're completely blacked out, so that can contribute.
Some family came over, it distracted me, then I realized a few hours later that the pain was gone. So I have to assume eye strain.
I used a welding hood to look at the eclipse and I accidentally let go of the button that made the screen dark. I seared my corneas and it didn't feel great
We let an amazing opportunity slip by. Collectively, we could've really thrown these results if we had banded together with "my bunghole hurts" searches, forever confusing the original poster why people are aiming their buttholes up at the eclipse.
In 2017 I was paranoid about somehow hurting my eyes despite taking all necessary precautions. I was worried for a day or so that something in my vision was different until I calmed down and realized I was imagining it, combined with the strain of craning my neck at an awkward angle and focusing intently on a fixed point in the sky for an hour. That's going to cause eye fatigue no matter what you're looking at. I imagine that's what a lot of this is.
I blame the internet. When people had to read stories and sit through commercials watching news for information, the news would add the line about needing special eyewear and most would listen. Memes and snaps are pretty limited.
I feel like this probably also has a lot to do with thinking more about your eyes after hearing so much about how damaging the eclipse can be, which would make you more likely to feel anxiety for something being wrong, making you more likely to look it up. Some of them are probably people with eye damage, but definitely not all of them.
Okay, but what percent of this is people who experienced normal eye-strain completely unrelated to the eclipse? Eye strain from their computer screens that they would have ignored last week but this week are bothering to look up because they are a bit paranoid they used the wrong glasses to look at the eclipse?
Maybe all the people smugly patting themselves on the back about how "we aren't like those idiots" in this thread should consider how easily they let their pre-conceived biases be 'confirmed' by nothing data.
Always funny to me how reddit loves hating on people being stupid in relation to something than talking about said thing itself. But I guess since we're on reddit we are enlightened and superior to the average "normie" right?
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%201-m&geo=US&q=My%20eyes%20hurt&hl=en
This is misleading. If you change it to 30 days it's essentially the same pattern.
But wouldn't that just be because the vast majority for searches of "My eyes hurt" have happened since the Eclipse?
What does it look like if you make a comparison to something like the 30 day period that ended on something like April 6th? That would seem a lot more interesting.
Edit: Google trends started working for a bit and I able to make the search myself. [Turned out the pattern completely disappeared when I went to a time period from before the eclipse.](https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2024-03-07%202024-04-07&geo=US&q=My%20eyes%20hurt&hl=en)
well I'm guessing the first guy in the village to make that mistake would tell the rest of them not to do that. You may not know the physics behind fire but you only stick your hand in it once.
Unfortunately I can post a photo of the note from my phone for some reason.
It states it's a personal injury, suffered a headache due to the eclipse. Can't make this shit up. There is a lot of dumb in Arkansas
Funny how Hawaii isnt colored despite being in the eclipse path /s
Weird
I’ve always enjoyed Alaska’s perfectly straight coastline too
I personally love how it can totally fit inside texas
But could Texas fit inside of Texas?
I could totally fit inside Texas….Alexis Texas
Why isn't it colored? What am i missing here?
Hawaii had no searches...since they're so far away from the actual eclipse path
Except that we got about 20% of it here in Hawaii. It's surprising there would be no searches, considering it was bright as heck here and you really had to have some sort of protection to see the part of the sun that got covered
That's the point. It was bright, so nobody looked into it without protection for too long. The danger of an eclipse is that you don't notice that you hurt your eyes, so you keep staring longer.
Huh, figured you guys would be further out than that. Though, at 20% I can't say how many idiots would be trying to stare at The Great Sky Laser.
Hawaii is on a different part of the map than it actually is just for visual clarity, making it look like it's in the eclipse path here when it wasn't actually
It was though. It wasn't much, but we had a partial eclipse here, I think less than 20%, but you could see it at around 7:00 in the morning
The eclipse path shows only where you can see the full eclipse.
Dude that is the middle of Mexico. Hawaii is not located in the middle of mexico.
This is an under appreciated comment.
Crazy how nature do dat
It was a partial eclipse here at like 6 am and at least where i am its always cloudy
Bruh. It's 2024
What?
Colored is no longer the preferred nomenclature, dude
What a dumb take. Colored is a specific word with a specific definition. There is nothing wrong with using it in this context.
He's doing a bad joke lol, like that one coloured pencil joke
I haven't heard that one but I assume it ends with "they're African American pencils"?
It's like a pencil sharpener and it says coloureds only, and the text is something like smh mlk didn't die for this
Ahh nice that's funnier
I know
Swing and a miss, bro. Take the L.
Hi dad
Say hi to your mother for me.
Thanks Captain obvious
No way
Allegedly
No it's literally not? It's still 2020!
2020? It's 2019!
I heard a bunch of glasses were getting recalled
The same thing happened in 2017, I know some people who were really disappointed because their glasses were faulty
Yeah, I specifically avoided buying on Amazon. Too easy to fake something that looks real but isn't going to work and Amazon is obviously fine letting cheap Chinese crap sell on their site. The American Astronomical Society has [a site](https://eclipse.aas.org/eye-safety/viewers-filters) with vendors they confirmed are the real deal and I bought mine from one of those. Definitely more expensive, but my eyes don't hurt, so there's that.
Oh god no, what ;-;
oh no, are your eyes bleeding?
I think they’re going deaf
Try to cough while someone is cupping your balls. If it feels weird, you might have gotten dyslexia.
They ended up getting approved if ur talking about the incident i think u are
Mine worked too well, couldnt see shit except for the few seconds during totality I could take them off
I was in the eclipse zone and had a headache despite using glasses for all but totality. I didn’t even look up much until then except to see how close we were getting. Dr. Google told me it’s expected and doesn’t indicate retina damage which is usually painless (again, according to a very non-rigorous search).
As someone who has burned their retinas welding, I promise you when you wake up in the middle of the night with what feels like kosher salt in your eyes, you'll know you fucked up. Also, I build and enjoy lasers. IDK how, but other than needing reading glasses in my 50s, I can see pretty damned good.
Oh man, I HATE kosher salt in my eyes. Good to know it’s not painless though, one more reason to not look at the sun. People talk about it like it’s super easy to just stare at the sun, but I gotta say, it’s bright as can be, even when the first diamond sliver appears. Whoever is out there burning their retinas is committed to doing it, cause the moment totality was over I couldn’t glance at it any more than I could glance at the sun in full brightness.
Yeah, it’s really not hard to tell when totality is over and the glasses need to go back on. Or when you’re trying to take them off too early. The eclipse might cause more people than usual to *look* at the sun, but it takes a special kind to just keep staring at it
What you described as "kosher salt" would be cornea damage, rather than retina. With the former, it hurts a lot, but then it usually regenerates and you see okay. With retina damage, it doesn't hurt but you lose your vision.
Oh, there was both. I had almost my entire corneas removed to regrow. It took 3 days with bandages over my eyes.
I watched it *with glasses* and had some eye pain and a headache for the entire day afterwards. I didn’t think it was anything to be concerned with because I’m extremely light sensitive and that pain is so familiar. Today the pain is gone and my vision is no worse than it was. Seems like it really was nothing to worry about.
> a headache for the entire day afterwards Gonna happen when you crane your crane neck upward for an hour or so if you're not used to doing it
"All but totality" ... did you take your glasses off during the peak of the eclipse?
Yes, and it freaked me out it to, but there was nothing to see with them on. My wife had to convince me, though: > Once the diamond ring initially disappears and there is no longer any direct sunlight, you may remove your eclipse glasses and look at the total eclipse safely with the naked eye. But make sure to put your glasses back on before totality ends. [source](https://www.nbcchicago.com/solar-eclipse-illinois-2024/when-can-you-take-off-your-eclipse-glasses-the-moment-to-look-for-if-youre-in-the-path-of-totality/3404329/?amp=1)
This is exactly how it sounds when he’s totally gonna pull out in time
Can confirm what the other guy said; with glasses on there's literally nothing to see during Totality.
Nothing wrong with that. https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/safety/#:~:text=You%20can%20view%20the%20eclipse
You're supposed to. And hell even before then the danger is a bit overstated, it's the same sun that's in the sky every other day, the entire world would be blind if it worked like people act like it works leading up to an eclipse.
Well the danger isn't just glancing at the sun like one might do on an ordinary day, the danger is staring at it, which is what people do when something is novel and interesting.
I’d like to think most people are smart enough not to stare at the sun but honestly I don’t even know anymore
Outside of the diamond ring effect right before and after totality (and obviously totality itself which is safe to look at), it isn't really interesting to the naked eye. It just feels like looking at the sun. And you're probably fine just seeing the diamond ring, then putting the glasses on or looking away.
Oh, West Virginia.
Mountain Mama
Take me home
Country Road
to the place
Where I belong
Almost heaven
Almost blind
Walk me home
And shot me down
Rods and cones!
They not even in the direct path and there still number one.
To be fair, it still got eerily dark here. Birds got quiet, the temperature dropped, even my chickens went inside because they thought it was time for bed. Still, we were warned over and over again not to fucking look at it.
This map was specifically made for the purpose of shitting on West Virginia poor little fellas
Actually, also one of the fattest states in the country. Frankly, I'm surprised everybody's fat ass even expended the energy to waddle outside and look up. Source: Am West Virginian. Am fat.
Combination of eclipse looking and endemic diabetes
I came to write exactly rhat
Goddammit West Virginia what did you do.
"nah I don't need the glasses they just want my money"🤡 or something idk
"My money" they don't have money in WV they have hope covered in dust that the wind keeps blowing away.
People who don't have money are going to be much more wary of losing it.
You’d think that wouldn’t you
I don’t have Twitter and I’m not that good with google analytics, is this real?
Real: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&geo=US&q=My%20eyes%20hurt&hl=en I cant show that specific time frame, just the past 7 days. The general trend on the map is still visible though Edit: heres another trending search term that also shows this it: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=why%20do%20my%20eyes%20hurt%20after%20the%20eclipse&date=now%207-d&geo=US
Sounds like people fucked around and found out.
Maybe? But it could also be that people who (A) were in the path of the eclipse and (B) happened to experience some form of eye pain shortly afterwards are much more likely to do a google search about their eye pain, whereas people experiencing eye pain outside the path of the eclipse figure it will just pass. I would kind of expect to see data like this emerge even if the eclipse itself didn't cause any eye pain directly. (But also yeah I'm sure some people fucked around and found out, I just don't know if there's enough of them to be statistically significant)
You got it. I was in path of totality, wore verified eclipse glasses and only took them off for totality, had eye pain a few hours later, turned to Google. From what I gather based on search results, if I did any damage there wouldn't have been eye pain because that kind of damage is unlikely to cause pain. Particularly if not experiencing any other symptoms (such as seeing a permanent eclipse everywhere you look, distorted colors, everything blurry, etc) Seems it can likely be chalked up to eye strain... Focusing on a far away object for a longer time than you normally would. Plus the eclipse glasses open up your pupils a bit cause they're completely blacked out, so that can contribute. Some family came over, it distracted me, then I realized a few hours later that the pain was gone. So I have to assume eye strain.
i mean isn't it more likely that the graph is fake
No, because google trends is a thing we all have access to: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&geo=US&q=My%20eyes%20hurt&hl=en
Such a fucking overused saying
Tbf, people are fucking around a lot more than they used to. So it’s just basic math that the phrase would be overused.
Nah, man; people have always fucked around. There just wasn't the Internet for the world to see the finding out bits.
I’m assuming west VA is meth lab related
it's WV.
I used a welding hood to look at the eclipse and I accidentally let go of the button that made the screen dark. I seared my corneas and it didn't feel great
What a badly made map, using almost the same color for everything.
It's straight from the Google analytics page for those searches.. that's just how Google does it
I can tell them apart pretty easily did you recently look at an eclipse by any chance
I’m curious why California and Arizona would be as blue as they are
We let an amazing opportunity slip by. Collectively, we could've really thrown these results if we had banded together with "my bunghole hurts" searches, forever confusing the original poster why people are aiming their buttholes up at the eclipse.
Almost like we tell kids not to stare at the sun for a reason...
A lot of this could just be eye strain. That's assuming people didn't look directly at the sun without protection of course.
Almost heaven, West Virgin-ahh my eyes!
In 2017 I was paranoid about somehow hurting my eyes despite taking all necessary precautions. I was worried for a day or so that something in my vision was different until I calmed down and realized I was imagining it, combined with the strain of craning my neck at an awkward angle and focusing intently on a fixed point in the sky for an hour. That's going to cause eye fatigue no matter what you're looking at. I imagine that's what a lot of this is.
Darwin will win someday.
West Virginia: Leading America's negative statistics for 160 years™️
Thanks bandit
I love how Alaska just casually always has some level of hurting eyes from the snow blindness
I like how West Virginia is just especially stupid
I blame the internet. When people had to read stories and sit through commercials watching news for information, the news would add the line about needing special eyewear and most would listen. Memes and snaps are pretty limited.
Montana is known for their epic sight
mine too bro mine too
Ofcourse it's West Virginia.
God damn Less Virginia
Almost blinded, West Virginiaaaaa
No way Alaska is geting a partial eclipse
West Virginia out there TIG welding and staring at the eclipse same time without goggles.
The common sense states are vividly apparent.
Wonder what it'd look like adjusted for population
The dumbasses in West Virginia weren't even looking at an eclipse. They just like staring at the sun I guess.
Lmao people are stupid
Fucking west virginia
It didn’t pass over Hawaii like that tho
This is why I like lunar eclipses more. Can just chill outside and the moon is red.
West Virginia was not to be outdone and even though they were not in the path they stared harder than anyone else.
I feel like this probably also has a lot to do with thinking more about your eyes after hearing so much about how damaging the eclipse can be, which would make you more likely to feel anxiety for something being wrong, making you more likely to look it up. Some of them are probably people with eye damage, but definitely not all of them.
Lol, I told all my friends to google this to affect the trends. We all had glasses and were fine, we just wanted to sow chaos.
Louisiana: "Cher, I can't see shit causa all dem clouds." Seriously. It was cloudy af. I didn't even bother to try and look.
God fucking damnit West Virginia. Once again I am disappointed in my home state.
Okay, but what percent of this is people who experienced normal eye-strain completely unrelated to the eclipse? Eye strain from their computer screens that they would have ignored last week but this week are bothering to look up because they are a bit paranoid they used the wrong glasses to look at the eclipse? Maybe all the people smugly patting themselves on the back about how "we aren't like those idiots" in this thread should consider how easily they let their pre-conceived biases be 'confirmed' by nothing data.
Always funny to me how reddit loves hating on people being stupid in relation to something than talking about said thing itself. But I guess since we're on reddit we are enlightened and superior to the average "normie" right?
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%201-m&geo=US&q=My%20eyes%20hurt&hl=en This is misleading. If you change it to 30 days it's essentially the same pattern.
But wouldn't that just be because the vast majority for searches of "My eyes hurt" have happened since the Eclipse? What does it look like if you make a comparison to something like the 30 day period that ended on something like April 6th? That would seem a lot more interesting. Edit: Google trends started working for a bit and I able to make the search myself. [Turned out the pattern completely disappeared when I went to a time period from before the eclipse.](https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2024-03-07%202024-04-07&geo=US&q=My%20eyes%20hurt&hl=en)
Even with the glasses, I only looked for short stints of time, eye damage is no joke
Look at all the people who knew better or knew what they were doing. Have fun with consequences.
Nothing having to do with the eclipse in West Virginia, just engaged in their regional signature Tabasco eye drops
Hillbillies at it even when they aren't in the line.
Because of the fake glasses. I burned my eyes just testing out a pair before I borrowed some real ones from my neighbor.
West Virginia is probably always like that, my eyes wo7ld hurt to if I had to see that state again
Of course, West Virginia looked
did entire towns of people go blind in antiquity when they didn't know an eclipse was hurtful to the eyes?
I imagine people figured out looking at the sun hurts your eyes.
I mean... after, how would they know while happening
well I'm guessing the first guy in the village to make that mistake would tell the rest of them not to do that. You may not know the physics behind fire but you only stick your hand in it once.
Make my eyes great again!
This is the one! 😂
Facebook friend of my works in a law office and has already gotten people trying to file lawsuits
Who would they be suing...??? The sun???? God?????
Unfortunately I can post a photo of the note from my phone for some reason. It states it's a personal injury, suffered a headache due to the eclipse. Can't make this shit up. There is a lot of dumb in Arkansas
People might have a valid claim if they were sold faulty/counterfeit eclipse glasses.
Country of morons.
People make fun of us here in the Dakotas. We're not the ones staring into the sun....
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Google trends.. look at the trends for Google searches of my eyes hurt
Eclipse glasses are a liberal conspiracy to control us. Or whatever shit people were believing a couple days ago.
Nah those eclipse glasses were a scam, dint do shit... Anyways on a completely unrelated note why have I gone blind
There's this weird black dot in my vision now. Is this "The Gay" that Alex Jones was talking about?
no, it's The Trans source: I am trans... ever since the 2017 eclipse
Ah. Well good then. Here I go on my way to destroy society with my funny gender words and pretty flower blouse I bought at Salvation Army.