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Do you think it would be fair to refer to football (either one) as a sport with a cult following?
by raldi 12y ago
Do you think it would be fair to refer to football (either one) as a sport with a cult following?
- JonnieCache 12y agoGood point. Probably not. It needs some sort of outsider status. Which star trek doesn't really have any more but that's debatable.
- raldi 12y agoBut that's my whole point -- reddit may once have been comprised of outsiders, but those days are long gone. It's bigger than Twitter was in 2012. Could you imagine a journalist in 2012 calling Twitter a cult website?
- JonnieCache 12y agoI didn't know it had grown that large. How much bigger has twitter gotten in the last two years? I agree that in the context of journalism it's a loaded term that's probably not fair. The outsider status is about more than the user count though. They maintain that status with all the weird stuff they get up to.
- raldi 12y ago> How much bigger has twitter gotten in the last two years? They're up to 284M: https://about.twitter.com/company https://about.twitter.com/company
- glomph 12y agoI think users of reddit still approach it like it is composed of outsiders (even though it isn't). For example plenty of people I know use the site but people don't talk about it like they would twitter. Using twitter is a sort of normal social network. Reddit is treated far more analogously to a tv show that some people like and others don't. Of course I can't really back this up with anything as it is just a feeling.
- riffraff 12y agoI don't think "cult" means "small group" in this context, but "strongly followed". At least, that is how I always interpreted stuff like "apocalypse now is a cult movie".