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Followers do not determine what's normal, they only do what they consider is already normal. And pioneers do what they care about regardless of whether it is 'n
by LigmaYC 4y ago
Followers do not determine what's normal, they only do what they consider is already normal. And pioneers do what they care about regardless of whether it is 'normal'.
- Retric 4y agoIf only 1 person does something it’s not normal. Hell if 1,000 or even 100,000 people on the planet do something it’s still not nominal but the vast majority of that first 1,000 let alone everyone after that going to be followers. Put another way the first person to ever make pizza didn’t suddenly transform it into a cultural phenomenon. It was enough people copying the idea that transformed the initial concept into one of the most popular types of food.
- LigmaYC 4y agoThere's another group in between pioneers and followers, the people who are willing to follow things that haven't gained traction yet. That group plus pioneers are most important to entering the mass market of followers.
- Retric 4y agoThe group you’re describing are still as you just said following someone else. But even if you add a new group of early followers it also works in the other direction. Stuff most people do also stops being popular because of what the largest groups of follower’s decides to stop doing.
- LigmaYC 4y agoThe largest group of followers "deciding" to "stop doing" something, is something that never happens automatically, they are always influenced by a pioneer.
- Retric 4y agoThe question is which pioneer, there isn’t just a single person bucking any given trend.
- LigmaYC 4y agoDidn't claim there was a single pioneer bucking any given trend, I used plural in my previous replies to refer to pioneers as a whole.
- Retric 4y agoThat’s not what I meant. I mean do people stop on day 1 with the 57th pioneer, or day 20,037 with the 847,529th pioneer, or keep going? That’s a choice and individual followers don’t make the same choice.
- LigmaYC 4y agoThat's a choice individual followers have little say in, since they merely follow and have no say/influence on the followers as a whole.