2026-05-21 · This surge ran for 7 days and has since subsided.
Part of Cockroach Janta Party · 2 surges recorded
Cockroach Janta Party drew 502,400 Wikipedia views in a day
Cockroach Janta Party drew 502,400 views on 2026-05-21, against a typical 101,768 a day. Normal traffic here is low enough that the multiple (4.9x) is indicative rather than precise — the view count is the solid figure here.
Cockroach Janta Party
Indian satirical political movement
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| Date | Views |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-21 | 502,400 |
| 2026-05-20 | 203,289 |
| 2026-05-19 | 247 |
What this article is
The Cockroach Janta Party, also known as the Cockroach movement, is an Indian youth-based satirical political movement founded on 16 May 2026 by Gen Z who expressed their anger and dissent against the establishment by joining a Instagram account created by Abhijeet Dipke.
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Where editors were working
Wikipedia editors made 156 edits to this article on 2026-05-21, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.
- Origin
- Social media restrictions
- Underlying issues
- Impact and legacy
- Examination paper leaks
- Ideology and positions
What changed that day
The article grew by 21,070 characters that day. The largest single addition was 25,010 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-05-21 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.
How this was measured
Views are Wikimedia's own pageview counts for en.wikipedia, filtered to agent=user so automated traffic is excluded. The baseline is the median of the previous 60 days, which is used instead of the mean so that an earlier surge cannot flatten a later one. The multiple is the day's views divided by that median.