How we check the facts on every page

How we fact-check AI-drafted pages

Every guide, hub and trend explainer on the site goes through the same five steps.

1. Gather the facts, with sources

   Before anything is written, each fact for the page is noted with where it came from: the post itself, a Google Trends read, a news report or a reference site. A fact with nothing to point to doesn't go into the draft.

2. AI writes the draft

   An AI model drafts the page from those notes, plainly and with dates. We use AI for speed: across the six AI video remakes of 2026 we timed, Google search peaked a median 4.5 days after the first AI remake. A page that took a week to write would arrive after the peak.

3. A separate AI pass checks it

   A second AI pass, run apart from the one that wrote the draft, opens the sources the page cites and compares every claim with what they say. Whatever it can't support is removed.

4. A script checks what's left

   Our page check stops a page from shipping if a link goes nowhere, a required part is missing or it repeats another of our pages too closely. It also flags pages that cite no sources or mention lyrics, so they get another look.

5. Numbers keep their read date

   Play counts change by the hour, so each one shows the day it was read. Guides and hubs pull trend numbers from the trend's own page as you load them, so they're never older than that page. On 16 Oct 2026, the numbers on all 8 trend pages were re-read that day.

What an AI fact-check can and can't catch

Our checking pass is AI too, so we don't call it an independent fact-checker. It can tell whether a source says what our sentence says. It can't tell whether the source itself is right, and it can miss things.

So we make each source easy to judge. A claim says who it comes from, the post itself beats anything written about it, and when sources give different numbers we'd rather show both than pick one. For the 2022 studio performance behind Hotel Lobby, Know Your Meme counts more than 121M views, while YouTube showed about 131.7M when we read it on 16 Oct 2026. The trend page gives both numbers, each with its source.

What a person does decide is which trends you can make. None goes live here until the person who runs the site approves it; our about page says who that is.

Why spell this out? Google's guidance on helpful content (updated 5 Oct 2026) says AI or automation disclosures are useful wherever readers might ask how a page was made. This page is our disclosure.

What our pages cite: 415 sources, counted 16 Oct 2026

We counted the sources listed on our live guides, hubs and trend explainers on 16 Oct 2026: 415 across 30 pages. Every one of them shows the day we read it.

Read dates: 293 on 16 Oct 2026, 116 on 15 Oct, 4 across both days and 2 on 14 Oct. The site is new: our domain was registered on 13 Oct 2026.

Three trend pages that show these rules

All three are live, and each shows one rule from this page. Add a photo and the free preview still usually takes under a minute.

1. Hotel Lobby ≈137M views · 2 people · 15s The stage, told straight. On 16 Oct 2026, its 32nd day, the page called it slowing: the biggest remakes had barely moved since 14 Oct, though people were still searching 'hotel lobby ai'. It's for two, so bring a friend to the hanging mic. See yourself in it
2. Raindance ≈200M views · 2 people · 28s What we leave out. The music video had about 285M YouTube views when we read it on 16 Oct 2026, and none of them are in the trend's estimate, because watching the video isn't joining the trend. 28 seconds on the pier at golden hour, for you and your person. See yourself in it
3. Smalltown Boy Cats↗ Rising ≈46M views · 2 pets · 21s A hidden number, said out loud. Instagram hides the original's views from logged-out readers, so its timeline gives the likes we could see, about 1.31M on 15 Oct 2026, and says why. It explains the 1984 song without quoting it. Your two cats at the red fence. See yourself in it

How we label what we can't confirm

Some facts can't be pinned down. When that happens, the page says so with one of these labels:

• Estimate. A total we work out from the posts we can read, given with a likely range. Hotel Lobby: about 137M views, likely 87M to 247M, read on 16 Oct 2026.
• As read on a date. If a post won't load when we go back to it, we keep its last count with the day we read it. On 16 Oct 2026 we couldn't read Rumpelstiltskin's Vampire Diaries recast, so its page kept the 1.8M plays from 15 Oct with that date. When it loaded again on 17 Oct, we read it fresh: 1.9M.
• The earliest we found. An origin date is the first post we could find, and an older one may exist, so the page says so. Rumpelstiltskin's page dates the earliest TikTok edit we found to 27 Sep 2026, two days before the edit people often credit.
• By their count. A number we take from another trend site is credited to that site by name, so you know it isn't ours. Some pages add 'not verified by us' when we had no way to check it.

Why we never print lyrics

Song lyrics are copyrighted, and we have no licence to print them. So when a trend runs on a song, its page names the song and the artist, explains what the song is about and why it suits the clip, and stops there.

Alors on Danse shows how that reads: its page says the title means 'so we dance' and that the song is about dancing as a way out when work and money pile up. If you came looking for the words, you'll find the meaning here and the song itself in your music app.

Found a mistake? Here's how we fix it

Email [email protected], the same address as on our terms and privacy policy. Send the page link, what's wrong and, if you have one, a source that shows it. Then:

• We check it against the sources, the page's and yours.
• We fix a confirmed mistake, aiming for 2 working days, the same target as our takedowns. If the source itself was wrong, the claim comes out or gets a better source.
• The page's Updated date moves. It changes only when the words on the page change, never because a number was re-read, so it shows when we last corrected or rewrote something.
• We reply to say what we changed, or why we didn't.
• Not a page error? A video of you made without your consent goes through report content, and a request to correct your own data goes through our privacy policy.