Public language / aggregate measure
The mood of the internet
Daily average happiness of public posts, scored with the labMT word-happiness lexicon. The line is the mean across the word-scored sources listed below that reported each day; news tone is on a different scale and is reported beside the line, not inside it.
Daily average happiness2026-09-17: 5.94
2026-09-032026-09-17
Sources
Bluesky — stale — last reported 2026-09-17, 15 days ago
Reddit — no data in the last 30 days
GDELT news tone — no data in the last 30 days
Daily observations and method
Scores describe the sampled public language, not population wellbeing. Words scored from 4 to 6 are excluded; posts need at least two remaining scored words. Each day averages the available source means. Changes in sampling or source coverage can move the line.
| Date | Word happiness |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-17 | 5.94 |
| 2026-09-16 | 5.98 |
| 2026-09-15 | 5.93 |
| 2026-09-14 | 5.95 |
| 2026-09-13 | 6.09 |
| 2026-09-12 | 5.98 |
| 2026-09-11 | 5.99 |
| 2026-09-10 | 5.98 |
| 2026-09-09 | 5.99 |
| 2026-09-08 | 5.93 |
| 2026-09-07 | 6.02 |
| 2026-09-06 | 5.98 |
| 2026-09-05 | 6.04 |
| 2026-09-04 | 6.08 |
| 2026-09-03 | 6.01 |