This article is kind of trash. It basically starts off by saying you can write off anything that happened after 2016 because Trump winning made twitter go into

This article is kind of trash. It basically starts off by saying you can write off anything that happened after 2016 because Trump winning made twitter go into a downspiral of sadness, when in reality that downtrend seemed to have started in mid 2015 (right around when election coverage started really ramping up, interestingly enough). Then after going through the effort of showing graphs and numbers to make the rankings seem legit, the author describes how the scoring is done, and it seems incredibly skewed by the addition of arbitrary events that each add a point to the score. So basically, if the author wants a day to get a higher score, they can just look into it more to find more events so that its score goes up. If an event happened that day that contributed to happiness, the hedonometer score already reflects that, it makes no sense to double dip by giving the score extra points since that days happiness may have had multiple small contributions rather than just one big one. I don't even really agree with how the hedonometer score was integrated. I think to really see how "happy" an individual day is, it would be better to subtract that day's happiness from the baseline/average happiness of that month rather than the raw score. This gives small happy days in a happy period an advantage over big happy days in a less happy period. I guess if you're just trying to say that day is happy without trying to tie any event to it, the raw data is fine, but I think that's much less interesting. There is probably some fancier math that could be done to weight the scores on a curve that would be more fair than just subtracting from their baseline if you really wanted to get into it. In the end they come to the conclusion that same-sex marriage being legalized is the happiest day on the internet, but if you look at the first graph, it really barely looks like an out of the ordinary day, you wouldn't notice it if it wasn't being pointed out. This really makes it feel like the author came into this article wanting that to be number one and made everything else fit around that.