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Unfortunately pointless, mostly symbolic things attract the most hysterical reactions from people.
by TimorousBestie 6mo ago
Unfortunately pointless, mostly symbolic things attract the most hysterical reactions from people.
- junofan 6mo agoFive billion people followed the Paris Olympics. It’s actually kind of important.
- squigz 6mo agoHow do you even measure that at that scale? I'm sure I would be counted among that 5 billion, yet my "following" was searching medal counts every couple days to see how poorly my country was doing, yet I would never describe it as "important" to me in any way.
- secondcoming 6mo agoYou're most likely part of the 2bn that showed no, or a passing interest, in the Olympics.
- squigz 6mo agoI sincerely doubt more than half the population of the entire planet showed more than a passing interest in them, and I'm still curious how it'd be possible to measure that.
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- AlOwain 6mo agoI doubt that 5 billion people could watch the Olympics at all. Where I am from, there is so little interest in the Olympics that I doubt even half my countries' population would be interested. I have never watched the Olympics ever, and amongst my family and friends, there is little to no mention of it. It is a minor cultural phenomena. This seems to me like there were large extrapolations made.
- adrian_b 6mo agoI assume that you are relatively young. During the last few decades, for various reasons the interest in several kinds of sports events, including the Olympics, has become much lower than before. Other forms of entertainment that were popular in the past have been similarly affected. However, when I was a child, a half of century ago, the Olympics was not a minor cultural phenomena, but a really major event in which the majority of the people all over the world would be interested.
- AlOwain 6mo agoYou are very much right, I appreciate your comment.