I think Mando has no filter at all honestly! I think once he gets going he’ll start saying whatever the fuck is on his mind, even if it’s just orders he growls out or soft praises... I think if he’s a big ol sap for you he’s gonna be saying ANYTHING that comes to his big ol metal head and god bless him the boy’s a little repressed don’t be too hard on him for it!!

We’ve been talking about TJLC for almost three years now, but somehow the very Gay and Fucky special, The Abominable Bride was not enough to pique viewers’ interests to make more than a tiny blip. In fact, searches for TJLC and related terms only begins to really rise in July when they released the first official trailer, and then in November, when they started to promote the new season by releasing soundtrack titles, announcing an air date, and putting out that flooded 221B picture.

We’ve literally been doing the same thing for three years, but somehow it never became a popular search term (first and second most popular related terms are shown in yellow and blue) until the start of the season 4 hype buildup.

What really gets me is that this graph peaks the day after The Six Thatchers airs. I don’t really understand how Google does their graphs as I’m not that familiar with statistics, but from what I can see, the charts are shown relative to the highest amount of searches - meaning that from January 1st to January 2nd, searches for TJLC basically tripled. O v e r n i g h t.

Here’s another chart that shows that searches for “johnlock” are generally independent from searches for “tjlc”:

Now I know we have done no more this season than we have other seasons. (except for maybe the sheer amount of meta we accumulated in the first week of the year, but I’m talking about putting ourselves out there and making our cause publicly known.)