5000 views in one day? WordPress????

I usually average about 100 views per day, but on the 27th of August, 2025, my stats shot up to 5000:

The next day it was about 1000 making the total for 7 days an eye-watering 6.3 THOUSAND.

I thought it must be some kind of internal, WordPress error because the stats for my actual posts were ‘normal’:

But then I dug a bit deeper and had a look at what was in my archived content:

And there it was. My Mystery Viewer had gone through every single Tag I had ever used AND looked at every Category created during my 14-ish years of blogging.

Is it a conspiracy theory to suppose that my Mystery Viewer was not…human?

WordPress: I have never given you or your AI or any other AI permission to scrape my content. How dare you slurp up my years of content anyway?

‘On WordPress, copyright law applies to the content that you create and publish on your website or blog. This means that you have the exclusive right to control how your content is used and distributed. If someone uses your content without your permission, they may be infringing on your copyright.’ Quote from Sanders Design

I want an explanation, and I want it now.

Meeks