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You vastly underestimate the size of this demographic, which is exactly what the short-sellers of GameStop did.
by lavp 6y ago
You vastly underestimate the size of this demographic, which is exactly what the short-sellers of GameStop did.
- lm28469 6y agoA few hundred thousands, maybe a few millions at most. A drop in the bucket of internet users
- read_if_gay_ 6y agoIf you look around, tons of communities have been getting banned/quarantined/etc. recently. It began years ago with literal hate groups like FPH or coontown on reddit, pedos on 8chan, later came pickup artists and incels, TheDonald, Chapo Trap House, then Apple, Amazon and Google banning Parler, YouTube and Twitter restricting Trump, and now, finally, even WSB. In isolation, every one of them is a drop in the bucket. But overall it's definitely enough to matter. If this continues, at some point everyone but the most boring will feel the banhammer somewhere. And the most boring aren't the ones producing content (aka generating all of the value).
- krageon 6y agoThings that were problems have been getting banned. Nothing has changed, except it's a little more extreme right wing platforms now. That always generates a lot of noise, because they are loud people.
- mrguyorama 6y agoExcept the overlap in many of those communities is HUGE. Each isn't a drop in the bucket, they are often the same drop
- hanselot 6y agoBut if you subtract the billions devoid of critical thought, suddenly that sample size looks a lot sexier.
- njanirudh 6y agoA drop in the bucket but a very important drop. do you think everyday old moms and dads are users for so many websites except the top few social media?