content: Analysizing Google Trends patterns I recently watched this video and found the google trends pattern for the search term "cold war" very interesting. So I began to search for other terms to try and see other patterns.  I found many terms that exhibited patterns such as: "censorship" - Image | Link "hitler" - Image | Link "dictatorship" - Image | Link "totalitarian" - Image | Link "stalin" - Image | Link "communism" - Image | Link "oppression" - Image | Link "women's rights" - Image | Link "nationalism" - Image | Link Is there any reason why these patterns would exist? The video I linked at the top suggested that we are being manipulated through the media in cycles, drumming up concerns or questions about these topics at regular times yearly. Is there any possibility for that being the case, or is there another explanation that's a bit easier to swallow?