Have you seen the surge in SKEW bro?

Journalists and so called pundits continue to talk about the surge in the "real fear indicator", the mysterious SKEW index.

It all sounds fancy when "the real fear index" is in panic mode, but it still fascinates us that people without any understanding of volatility, and even less about what SKEW even is, continue to be seen as pundits and people actually "buy" the logic.

What about the moment of an option?