alon.wtf
strange & rad experiments in visualizing real-time social data
Live experiments take the internet's top creators for any topic — powered by LunarCrush social data — and render them as a war, a stock market, a solar system, a chemistry experiment and a wall of posters. Everything updates while you watch.
THE EXPERIMENTS · 100 slots · hover or tap a slot
The internet's top creators fight an endless King of the Hill war on the Moon. Rankings are territory, viral posts are airstrikes, and the crown changes heads while you watch.
ENTER THE WARFRONT →
A mad scientist pours the internet into a test tube. The top 20 creators of any topic, titrated live into layers of glowing engagement — hover to analyze the mixture.
ENTER THE LAB →
Every topic is a star its creators can't escape. The top 20 orbit as planets — rank is the orbit, followers the mass — while eighty asteroids tumble in the belt, waiting to be pulled in.
LAUNCH TELESCOPE →
A superfan's bedroom where the posters rehang themselves: the top musicians on the wall, and the more the internet screams about them, the bigger their poster gets.
ENTER THE FANDOM →
The top creators of any topic, listed like stocks on a live trading floor. Ranks are prices, viral posts move the tape — and every platform runs its own exchange, with an ALL composite to watch the whole market at once.
OPEN THE MARKET →
Any two creators, head to head: their real hourly engagement replayed as a twelve-round prizefight. Punches are engagement bursts, health bars are attention share — and it's scored pound-for-pound, so underdogs genuinely win.
ENTER FIGHT NIGHT →
Every creator on the internet has a trading card — they just don't know it yet. Holographic foil, rarity minted from their live global rank, pound-for-pound power, spheres of influence. Flip it over for the deep telemetry.
PRINT A CARD →ABOUT THIS PROJECT
alon.wtf is a growing set of live data-art experiments. The premise is simple: the same real-time social data can tell a completely different story depending on the metaphor you pour it into. So each experiment takes the identical signal — the top ~100 creators of a topic, their rank, followers, engagement, momentum and sentiment — and stages it as a different living scene.
Nothing here is a static chart. Rankings shift, viral posts land, and leaders get dethroned in real time, exactly as they do across the social internet. Pick any topic and watch the same leaderboard become a battlefield, a trading floor, or a solar system.
HOW IT WORKS
- 1 · Scan a topic. A game, a coin, an artist, a brand — anything the social internet talks about. Or start from the top signals chart.
- 2 · We pull the signal. LunarCrush provides the live leaderboard: rank, followers, engagement, sentiment and top posts across every major platform.
- 3 · The scene comes alive. Each experiment maps that signal onto its own physics and re-ranks itself about once a minute.
FAQ
- What is alon.wtf?
- alon.wtf is a collection of live, interactive visualizations that turn real-time social data into strange, playful scenes. Each experiment takes the top creators of any topic and renders them through a different metaphor — a war, a stock market, a solar system, a chemistry lab, a bedroom wall.
- Where does the data come from?
- Every social signal — creator rankings, follower counts, engagement, sentiment and top posts — comes from LunarCrush. Each scene polls live and re-ranks itself while you watch, so the crown genuinely changes hands in real time.
- How often does it update?
- Scenes refresh about once a minute. Rankings and engagement reflect the last 24 hours of activity aggregated across X, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, Instagram and news.
- Can I visualize any topic?
- Yes. Scan any topic on the homepage — a game, a coin, an artist, a brand, a meme — and if the internet is talking about it, you can open it in the war, exchange, science and system scenes. Or go straight to a URL like /exchange/bitcoin or /war/minecraft.
- Who makes this?
- alon.wtf is built by alon as an ongoing series of “strange & rad” experiments in visualizing real-time social data.