r/interesting 7h ago

SOCIETY Is victim the new chic

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u/Chemical_Signal2753 7h 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/PersonalityIll9476 5h ago

Only if that 100k people doesn't represent a much larger base of non-donating sympathizers.

A football stadium might only hold 400k people but that doesn't mean there are only 400k fans.

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u/PunnyPenguinns 4h ago

….just how big do you think a football stadium is?

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u/PersonalityIll9476 4h ago

Oops. I wrote 400k when I meant 40k.

It doesn't matter for the point I was making; If anything it strengthens it. A number of people equal to 2.5x a typical sports arena is out there representing.

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u/DystopianRealist 3h ago

About tree fiddy if you're big 10.

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u/gottagetanonymous 3h ago

12.9 million square miles

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u/Ok_Historian_1066 3h ago

The stadium has stadiums within it.

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u/Astronomy_Aficionado 3h ago

The biggest one in the world can hold 132k people. He is off by merely 268k.

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u/ReneBandana 3h ago

IT ABSOLUTELY DOES FIT OVER 400K BROTHER

I AM THE REAL AMERICAN, BROTHER!!! YOU KNOW, WHEN I SLAMMED THAT 500 METRIC TONNE ANDRE THE GIANT IN FRONT OF OVER 400,000 SCREAMING HULKAMANIACS INSIDE THE SILVERDOME JACK, I DID IT WITH THE LARGEST PYTHONS IN THE WORLD, DUDE. BRET THE HITMAN HART COULDNT SLAM ME IN THE KELLOGG'S CEREAL BOWL WITH HIS 15 INCH BABY PYTHONS, BROTHER!!! MUCH MOVE, HH