Narcissism is a popular topic. It seems everyone has it these days or knows someone who does. While Taylor Swift helped popularize the concept of covert narcissism in her hit song, “Anti-Hero,” Google searches for the term began to escalate in 2015 and quadrupled in 2017 after a steady hover between 2004-2014.

I take note that a popular presidential election may have contributed to that 2017 spike.

Still, the frenzied search for narcissism continued to grow and has since jumped 25% higher in 2023. Swift’s “Anti-Hero was released at the end of 2022 and has remained at a steady high. There are also more than 100 podcasts about narcissism. I give up counting after 120; there could be hundreds more.

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