#thecakeisalie
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #thecakeisalie from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-10 09:09 UTCNo measured public usage for #thecakeisalie in the last 7 days. That is a real result, and a good one to know: this hashtag is wide open right now. We show a dash before we ever show a made-up number. Browse the trending index for tags with live measurements.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-10 09:09 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #thecakeisalie.
Live pulse
measured · Mastodon tag timeline · fetched 2026-10-10 09:09 UTCNo recent public posts found for #thecakeisalie on Mastodon. Nothing measured, so nothing shown.
What “thecakeisalie” means
Wikipedia"The cake is a lie" is a catchphrase from the 2007 video game Portal. Initially left behind as graffiti by Doug Rattmann to warn that GLaDOS, the game's main villain, was deceiving the player, it was intended to be a minor reference and esoteric joke by the game's development team that implied the player would never receive their promised reward. It became unexpectedly popular among Portal players, and has since become a widely distributed Internet meme where the phrase is co-opted and becomes a
“The cake is a lie” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#thecakeisalie across platforms
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