The Glasses! They do NOTHING rule.

I wonder how many stared without protection, and how many were scammed with fake glasses.

I'm going to lean more towards fake glasses (benefit of the doubt and what not)

Fake products have been really popping off on Amazon for awhile now
- Why would you give people the benefit of the doubt? We're stoopid.
I also noticed after using them with my actual glasses, that it warns not to use them with other optical devices
- I think that’s just because wearing them over regular glasses creates a bigass gap. I tried it for a second this time around before thinking better of it.
Probably not many, the glasses are so cheap to make and so easy to tell if they aren't right.
- Don't underestimate the stupidity of man.

The region map also tells a story

That's roughly where the path of totality went tho
- Yes, that's the story it's telling
- People misunderstanding and looking at it in partial maybe?

True story: Today I was on my college campus in California, on the quad, hoping to admire the partial eclipse today. Some enterprising young woman next to me was selling glasses for three bucks. I saw some people buy some and decided what the hell. Unfortunately the only thing she had left was some kind of monocle. I bought it anyway and enjoyed the partial eclipse. After around 10 minutes of looking on and off, I sat down to read the text on the monocle. It said it was exclusively for phone use and under no circumstances was it to be used for viewing with your eye. Saying it could cause serious damage. Thankfully no pain so far, but I hope I didn't do any kind of serious damage. I've had anxiety about it ever since. The seller said to not worry about it and it would be fine. She had no idea either. Lovely!

sees phone lens cover: "this is an old timey eclipse monocle".. I'm just teasing the idea of an eclipse monocle just made me giggle. I hope you're eyes are ok- it sounds like you're good?
I think it's more the manufacturer knows it can't cover both eyes and so tells you not to use it that way. If your eyes don't hurt, I'm sure the damage was very minimal. But what do I know.
- Thanks, makes me feel better.
Well the floaties I bought for the pool had warnings in many languages but only the one in murican got my attention: it's not a toy and it's not a floatation device. What the hell do Americans use it for if the legalese forbids everything?

Same story with people treating kinder eggs like a lethal device.

I broke out my welding lens to look through. Worked very well. I can believe most of texas feeling the hurt since 'we' think we're immune to most health and safety warnings published forthe general public.

Was the shade in your lens at least 12 I hope?
- Nope. 10.
Yep, same here. The auto darkening set I normally use didn't really work, but I just looked through a piece of spare glass I had lying around for a passive set.
- Yeah i think autodarks have a limited range of activation. 93mil is probably a bit out of reach

west Virginians be looking at el sun
- it's because they're closer to the sun on the mountains
All Hawaiians using glasses as it should be.

What glasses. Cardboard with slits.

But that just projects a shadow of what's happening. I needed the full experience. So yes, idk what glasses people were needing, I could see the sun perfectly fine. The spots and eye-pain afterward was just a bonus feature

Where can you find these graphs?

It looks like it's Google Trends, if I'm remembering correctly. If you search for that name, the page should come up, but I believe it's at trends.google.com. They're super interesting to look at!
- thanks!
Google trends

My eyes hurt trying to zoom in on the pixel.

What is the scale on the x axis?

The scale is yes.