The Giant Spider Invasion
Summary

We looked at 2652 toots posted between Sun 15 Dec 2024 20:00 EST and Sun 15 Dec 2024 23:18 EST by 119 different participants across 71 different servers. mastodon.social contributed the most toots with 436 .
Most toots were from ‘Solarbird :flag_cascadia:’ (moira@mastodon.murkworks.net) who posted 98 .
The top 3 boosted toots:
- This toot from Solarbird :flag_cascadia: (moira@mastodon.murkworks.net) had 13 boosts.
here, people like them, so have other ascii sp00ders
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- This toot from 4 8 15 16 23 42 (Taweret@octodon.social) had 13 boosts.
- This toot from Rob Ricci 🎄 (ricci@discuss.systems) had 12 boosts.
Tonight, something different on #monsterdon
In place of our usual fictional fare, we're watching the 1977 documentary The Giant Spider Invasion. It's about that event, which we've all heard of, in which a black hole opened in rural Wisconsin and let through spiders from the spider dimension. Giant spiders.
Many of us are too young to have lived through the Giant Spider Invasion - I myself was born in 1979, as part of the post-Giant Spider Invasion Baby Boom, so I didn't witness it first hand. My schools were always very hesitant to teach about The Giant Spider Invasion, so it is very much shrouded in mystery for me. My elders were too traumatized and spoke of it only in hushed tones after the children had all gone to bed.
So, I am in for a journey of discovery tonight.
The top 3 favourited toots:
- This toot from John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us) had 28 favourites.
A mysterious hieroglyph from the ancient past.
#Monsterdon
- This toot from Cactuar Joe (CactuarJoe@retro.pizza) had 18 favourites.
So let's try to look on the bright side of this movie.
Dan's dead. Ev is dead. Terry's probably alive, so she likely inherits the farm, with all its outer space rocks. She sells it to NASA for an enormous sum and fucks off to Tahiti with her nerd ass reporter boyfriend, never to be seen again. The end. #Monsterdon
- This toot from Rob Ricci 🎄 (ricci@discuss.systems) had 16 favourites.
Most of us don't remember this, but all American homes used to have automated banjos that would start playing whenever we said something incestuous
The top 3 most-replied-to toots:
(Note: this really should exclude people who reply to themselves, it doesn’t do that well, yet)
- This toot from Shig Vigintitres (shig@misanthropolis.xyz) had 20 replies.
Tonight’s exclusive, invitation-only #monsterdon experience: The Giant Spider Invasion (1975). You’re only allowed to watch if you received an official #monsterdon invitation. Have you not gotten one? You have now. This is as official as it gets, baby!
- This toot from John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us) had 6 replies.
A mysterious hieroglyph from the ancient past.
#Monsterdon
That was among the top 50 grossing films of 1975???? #monsterdon
Activity Graph

A histogram showing posts per minute on Sunday, 15 Dec 2024. Each bar represents one minute. The event was 78.0 minutes long. There were 2289 posts during the event with an average of 29.35 posts per minute. The busiest moment was at 66:00 from the start with 47 posts in that minute. The quietest moment was at 48:00 from the start with 16 posts in that minute. The yellow line is a 15-minute moving average.
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The word cloud for Sunday, 15 Dec 2024. Words are larger the more frequently they appeared in posts. There were 7462 unique words posted, and the wordcloud shows the 200 most frequent. Top 10 most frequent words were: thegiantspiderinvasion: 513, spider: 460, spiders: 269, giant: 245, ᄽºὁȍ: 178, movie: 172, őὀºᄿ: 145, one: 96, giantspiderinvasion: 89, know: 81, and the hashtag monsterdon.
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Analysis of #monsterdon generated at Wed 15 Oct 2025 23:03 EDT
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