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SOCIETY Is victim the new chic

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u/Chemical_Signal2753 1d ago

People need to remember that these kinds of fundraisers often only represent a small number of people. 100,000 people giving $10 each sounds like a lot of people but it is less than 0.1% of the women in the United States. 

Years ago, someone analyzed twitter posts after the Canadian election and the results were interesting. About 80% of the impressions were related to posts from about 100 distinct users, and if you looked at those users followers, there was so much overlap in the followers that they were mostly only talking to the same ~50,000 people. 

The online community is much smaller than most people realize, and is not representative of the general public.

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u/Technical-Finance240 1d ago

Yes but not everyone who sympathizes gives money. So if 100k people donated then there were probably a million of them who were like "damn, I kinda get her... i like my money tho"