In the past 14 days there have been 1185 direct and 780 + 695 + 250 + 225 + 204 + 186 + 159 + 157 + 130 + 98 + 89 + 88 + 87 + 83 + 75 + 72 + 60 + 59 + 57 + 57 + 41 + 37 + 35 + 34 + 33 + 33 + 33 + 31 + 29 + 29 + 29 + 29 + 28 + 26 + 26 + 23 + 23 + 23 + 22 + 21 indirect hits, making a total of 5381 hits, all for my picture of [www.crypticide.com] as above.

Particularly, the image seems to have plugged into a trend in younger-person blogging, to paste up a “found” image and add some manner of poetry beneath. Examples of the above can be found in spanish, turkish, swedish and incoherent english, so it’s arguably a world phenomenon. Most of my experience of that sort of thing has been limited to regressing thirty-somethings on LiveJournal, but apparently – according to my stats – Xanga actually holds the lion’s share of this “yoofblog” market.

It’s not just that one, either – some of my original stuff gets linked from the most unlikely of places.

Having discovered this, I suppose my question is: whether I want to do anything about it? Maybe surreptitiously link them to some therapy? Subliminal advertising? However the #1 hit is from the website of a Dutch woman who seems to have a significant fanbase, but I have no idea who she is…

…and I still wonder how many of them spot that the “little girl” is Winston Churchill?