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How does "twin sisters" imply a rags to riches story? You seem to be implying that because the headline mentions the success of a female team in taking public a

How does "twin sisters" imply a rags to riches story? You seem to be implying that because the headline mentions the success of a female team in taking public a games studio making games for a female market, it somehow implies they must have come from nothing and struggled? Instead, we should be celebrating their ingenuity in seeing a wildly undeserved market and succeeding at building something successful yo cater to it. This is something we can all aspire to instead of making it about gender.

fxtentacle 6y ago
"Twin sisters in Japan have become multi-millionaires after ..." reads to me like they suddenly became wealthy. But in reality, they likely went from "millionaires" to "multi-millionaires". At least, it looks like their revenue (and thus estimated company value) grew linearly in recent years: https://ipoget.com/ipo-colyinc/ https://ipoget.com/ipo-colyinc/
- elindbe3 6y ago
  So, in other words, they became multi-millionaires. I think your reading too much into it, just take the words as written.
h0l0cube 6y ago
Have to double down on this. The article makes the point that the female gaming community is underserved, and that a mostly female game studio reaching this level of success is exceptional, maybe even unprecedented. That's the content of the article, and it's newsworthiness is hard to fault here. Not sure why people need to make loud defences of IDW personalities or invoke statistical differences in competencies across genders.
kiba 6y ago
* How does "twin sisters" imply a rags to riches story? You seem to be implying that because the headline mentions the success of a female team in taking public a games studio making games for a female market, it somehow implies they must have come from nothing and struggled?* It doesn't. However people do jump to conclusion. I also assumed that it's a rags to riches story, however incorrect it is.
- buran77 6y ago
  > people do jump to conclusion Just about as much as titles like to feed this habit. They're designed to leave the wrong impression in order to trigger a reaction. "Jeff Bezos becomes a trillionaire thanks to lettuce". It's going to make you wonder, draw conclusions, call it ridiculous, want to tell someone about it. But yeah, I mean lettuce is what's also sold at Whole Foods, and that may be what takes Bezos from $999.99bn to $1tn so it may be technically correct. The least useful kind of correct. "Millionaire twin sisters greatly increase their wealth after targeting female gamer market" doesn't have the same pull although it's just as accurate. But it gives too much information and you're no longer interested in clicking. Regardless, props to them for finding a niche to serve and get rich(er) from, especially in a market that doesn't cater very well to that segment.
slightwinder 6y ago
Millions is a low value in terms of wealth and makes only really sense to mention it if your previous wealth was significant different. But going from some million to some more million is saying they went from being rich to staying being rich. There seems to have not reached a significant difference in the level of their wealth. It could be written far better without mentioning numbers.
- cmdshiftf4 6y ago
  >Millions is a low value in terms of wealth and makes only really sense to mention it if your previous wealth was significant different. Only really true in America and well see how that holds up as we progress with America's collapse.
- dudeman13 6y ago
  >Millions is a low value in terms of wealth As Skeletor once said: WAT?! If you got millions you are part of the 0.5%.
  - slightwinder 6y ago
    Yet they are still unable to buy a proper space rocket, or sky scraper or a middle sized company. Even wealth knows classes. So staying in the same class has no real news-value when the more important part is them being woman in a mens world.
  - marshmallow_12 6y ago
    or you own a decent house in London.

fxtentacle 6y ago

"Twin sisters in Japan have become multi-millionaires after ..." reads to me like they suddenly became wealthy. But in reality, they likely went from "millionaires" to "multi-millionaires". At least, it looks like their revenue (and thus estimated company value) grew linearly in recent years: https://ipoget.com/ipo-colyinc/ https://ipoget.com/ipo-colyinc/

elindbe3 6y ago
So, in other words, they became multi-millionaires. I think your reading too much into it, just take the words as written.

h0l0cube 6y ago

Have to double down on this. The article makes the point that the female gaming community is underserved, and that a mostly female game studio reaching this level of success is exceptional, maybe even unprecedented. That's the content of the article, and it's newsworthiness is hard to fault here. Not sure why people need to make loud defences of IDW personalities or invoke statistical differences in competencies across genders.

kiba 6y ago

* How does "twin sisters" imply a rags to riches story? You seem to be implying that because the headline mentions the success of a female team in taking public a games studio making games for a female market, it somehow implies they must have come from nothing and struggled?* It doesn't. However people do jump to conclusion. I also assumed that it's a rags to riches story, however incorrect it is.

buran77 6y ago
> people do jump to conclusion Just about as much as titles like to feed this habit. They're designed to leave the wrong impression in order to trigger a reaction. "Jeff Bezos becomes a trillionaire thanks to lettuce". It's going to make you wonder, draw conclusions, call it ridiculous, want to tell someone about it. But yeah, I mean lettuce is what's also sold at Whole Foods, and that may be what takes Bezos from $999.99bn to $1tn so it may be technically correct. The least useful kind of correct. "Millionaire twin sisters greatly increase their wealth after targeting female gamer market" doesn't have the same pull although it's just as accurate. But it gives too much information and you're no longer interested in clicking. Regardless, props to them for finding a niche to serve and get rich(er) from, especially in a market that doesn't cater very well to that segment.

slightwinder 6y ago

Millions is a low value in terms of wealth and makes only really sense to mention it if your previous wealth was significant different. But going from some million to some more million is saying they went from being rich to staying being rich. There seems to have not reached a significant difference in the level of their wealth. It could be written far better without mentioning numbers.

cmdshiftf4 6y ago
>Millions is a low value in terms of wealth and makes only really sense to mention it if your previous wealth was significant different. Only really true in America and well see how that holds up as we progress with America's collapse.
dudeman13 6y ago
>Millions is a low value in terms of wealth As Skeletor once said: WAT?! If you got millions you are part of the 0.5%.
- slightwinder 6y ago
  Yet they are still unable to buy a proper space rocket, or sky scraper or a middle sized company. Even wealth knows classes. So staying in the same class has no real news-value when the more important part is them being woman in a mens world.
- marshmallow_12 6y ago
  or you own a decent house in London.