Who remembers a world without hashtags? What a much more pleasant world that seems in hindsight despite their use as search terms across many platforms, and a way to form common threads so the content you want can be more easily found. So I thought I’d just try and create a word cloud of popular hashtag search terms (on the day I made this map – last Friday).

No idea if it’s #accurate or #truthful or even #ethical but it’s some sort of #map. #FTW

Original Prompt (ChatGPT)

Can you create a map of the USA in the style of a word cloud that shows what the most popular searched hashtags are across the country. Obviously the word cloud should be the hashtags themselves. But I also want to drop in an Easter Egg that shows #365DaysofMaps as being very popular search in the Wisconsin area.