Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[Cheers]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/my-wife-said-she-doesnt-feel-the-same-about-me-ive-never-felt-so-alone-in-my-life-also-is-the-world-just-completely-fucked-now.1314745/

She is even somehow a socialist and ally despite growing up with rich parents in a private Catholic girl's school in Oxford UK.

   

this is like, the least fucking surprising thing ever.
If it was a really really strict religous school its also super likely she is an absolute freaky slut, 'somehow' despite her intensively religious shame based upbringing

   

She sounds like a spoiled rich white girl who can’t take any type of hardship. She doesn’t work at all but does training for marathoning? If that ain’t the some of the most privileged shit…

[Eric Cartman]

Yom Kippur, too. Despicable.

And it's a Muslim background immigrant too. Fucking piece of shit. Good job, you just made life a lot more difficult not only for the victims, but for everyone else. Piece of shit.

Basically. Religious bigots and extremists are a cancer to society.

The gall of this asshole.

Funny, why isn't Spineduke calling it "resistance" ?

These people literally cheer for Hamas and Hezbollah and as soon as someone commits a terror attack they're all

Shame they instasided with the murderer, because they coulda got some extra ACAB mileage out of it

[Eric Cartman]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ea-announces-agreement-to-be-acquired-by-pif-silver-lake-and-affinity-partners-for-55-billion-kushner-saudi-arabia.1311322/page-19#post-145808920

 User Banned (2 Weeks): Islamophobia

this for example will likely cease to exist as it resemble a blowjob, which is haram

[Eric Cartman]

Their methodology is… a thing. Here if you want to really delve into it: https://openmeasures.io/american-eagle-ad-backlash

No thanks, I'd rather wait for a 4 hour breadtuber video about how its pretty great actually

[Eric Cartman]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trekkies-it-has-been-long-enough-you-can-finally-admit.1314322/#post-145907704

not long enough to admit that Discovery is outright fucking trash though

[benji]

Member only:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-eagle-sparks-backlash-for-touting-sydney-sweeneys-great-jeans.1255467/page-25#post-145940107

Outrage Over American Eagle’s ‘Great Jeans’ Ad Was a Conservative Media Creation

 American Eagle's "great jeans" ad led to a media outrage cycle after conservatives on X amplified a minority of liberal posts that claimed the ad had racist undertones.

The ‘article’ coming from a company called ‘Open Measures’. Who are they?

Organizations use Open Measures every day to track trends related to networks of influence, coordinated harassment campaigns, and state- backed info ops.

Well shit, I bet they aren’t biased in the least.

Their methodology is… a thing. Here if you want to really delve into it: https://openmeasures.io/american-eagle-ad-backlash

To identify relevant posts from our datasets (mentioning American Eagle, Sweeney, the “great jeans” slogan, and other relevant keywords), our researchers created Boolean strings and progressively optimized them using our platform’s AI search feature.

Uncover Insights
Search through multimedia and text-based data points across dozens of sources. Use filtering and AI-assisted querying to facilitate deeper research.

Multimedia Search Results

Find media with reverse image searching and AI-generated filters to better understand image and video content.

AI-Assisted Insight

An AI-based Research Assistant takes you beyond boolean syntax to help you find the needle in the haystack.

Everything in Pro, plus:

AI queries to support complex query generation

Multimedia results including image, video, and audio files

Search across AI generated enrichments like image captions

Narrow in with AI-assisted solutions like image captioning or video transcription.

Yeah, maybe don't link Nazi organizations that are literally destroying the planet with theft.  

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

I would note that their sources don't include Twitter and the only source in their dataset that leans left is Bluesky. They polled a bunch of right-leaning social media and discovered more right-leaning people were talking about the subject! Wow!

Even despite this, Bluesky still dominates their dataset and their own graph of the posts with "racial language" disproves their argument:


The green is Bluesky, the talk clearly starts there and then two days later spikes on the other websites which feeds back to Bluesky. They didn't evaluate the time at all, their conclusion that it was manufactured was based on that more of the posts overall were on the other sites but all this shows is that the right-leaning posts in their set, which again doesn't include Twitter, had a larger reaction to it after the fact. And much of the discussion was on Twitter! Bluesky had plenty of people claiming the outrage was all made up and denying it existed because it was happening on Twitter. Also note that Bluesky comes back to the subject days later while it's died everywhere else, this is likely like the Era thread people claiming it was proven science that the ad was Nazi propaganda. None of the analysis discusses this at all because again they ignored the timeline and just looked at the total share of posts across their dataset.

Also, they did this as a bar graph. If they did it as a line graph you'd seen even more clearly that Bluesky was talking about it at a fairly consistent level for days. Every other site would spike around those two days and then fall back to nothing. They don't find this interesting at all.

[Eric Cartman]

To identify relevant posts from our datasets (mentioning American Eagle, Sweeney, the “great jeans” slogan, and other relevant keywords), our researchers created Boolean strings and progressively optimized them using our platform’s AI search feature.

another DEI hire, amirite?

[HaughtyFrank]

The ‘article’ coming from a company called ‘Open Measures’. Who are they?

Organizations use Open Measures every day to track trends related to networks of influence, coordinated harassment campaigns, and state- backed info ops.

Well shit, I bet they aren’t biased in the least.

Their methodology is… a thing. Here if you want to really delve into it: https://openmeasures.io/american-eagle-ad-backlash

Article claims that the outrage was amplified by conservatives on X but then never analyses X posts



Good thing though that they included platforms I never even heard about in my life.

[NekoFever]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/my-wife-said-she-doesnt-feel-the-same-about-me-ive-never-felt-so-alone-in-my-life-also-is-the-world-just-completely-fucked-now.1314745/

She is even somehow a socialist and ally despite growing up with rich parents in a private Catholic girl's school in Oxford UK.

this is like, the least fucking surprising thing ever.
If it was a really really strict religous school its also super likely she is an absolute freaky slut, 'somehow' despite her intensively religious shame based upbringing

I bet she has friends with dreads who took a gap year to go backpacking around Southeast Asia.

[nachobro]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bill-burr-defends-performing-at-controversial-riyadh-comedy-festival-%E2%80%9Cthey%E2%80%99re-just-like-us%E2%80%9D.1313038/page-5#post-145919806

always love posts like this. my dude no one would ask you to do this cause you have no talent or anything people would want to see

[Snoopy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/my-wife-said-she-doesnt-feel-the-same-about-me-ive-never-felt-so-alone-in-my-life-also-is-the-world-just-completely-fucked-now.1314745/

   

this is like, the least fucking surprising thing ever.
If it was a really really strict religous school its also super likely she is an absolute freaky slut, 'somehow' despite her intensively religious shame based upbringing

   

She sounds like a spoiled rich white girl who can’t take any type of hardship. She doesn’t work at all but does training for marathoning? If that ain’t the some of the most privileged shit…

No spoiled rich girl would move from London to Cardiff. That would be like a Manhattan socialite moving to Indiana. She was probably some weird burnout looking for a place to lay low. Interestingly UK credit agencies stop chasing debts after 7 years. So there's another strange little coincidence. It's all starting to add up.

[Nintex]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/my-wife-said-she-doesnt-feel-the-same-about-me-ive-never-felt-so-alone-in-my-life-also-is-the-world-just-completely-fucked-now.1314745/

She is the embodiment of a ray of sunshine.

I know everyone in that room was wondering how the fuck I got her.

At the end of the year, after dealing with all of that, my boss let me go by surprise after an 8 year stable, well paid, career. Even worse, he told me I had done nothing wrong, and that he just was bored of that business and wanted to go into another. We were both crushed and in shock, I basically spent 2 days crying.

At the start it was really hard and I was penniless, some days I couldn't eat. 

my life is a lot harder, I have to go out and fight for it with new clients every month rather than just, making it from working every day like you do working for someone else.

not running or going to the gym at all and not eating well. 

With her focusing on that and me focusing on work, we haven't been going on dates or having fun as much as we used to. But, I thought this was ok,

On Tuesday this week, she said she doesn't feel the same way about me anymore and we should take a break and not live with each other for 2 weeks....

By now she's fucking a new guy at 100 BPM bro. He's fit, he has money and not as many problems. She found out you weren't her best option or she wants to explore.
You should've said: "If you feel that way we shouldn't live together period I'm giving you 24 hours to decide and pack your shit".  

Side note/broader topic - is the world just fucked now? I know it is politically and that knocks on with everything else but jesus christ. It feels like I get bad news every 3 months. Not just small bad news but the major type that would be life changing a few years ago. Now it's just a normal thing. Is it like this for everyone lately?

For those who are weak, simpy and beta. Yes. 

It's not a world of dreams and fairy tales. This woman found out that if shits REALLY hits the fan, you'll go cry in a corner.

[Orange Juice Box]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ea-announces-agreement-to-be-acquired-by-pif-silver-lake-and-affinity-partners-for-55-billion-kushner-saudi-arabia.1311322/page-19#post-145808920

 User Banned (2 Weeks): Islamophobia

this for example will likely cease to exist as it resemble a blowjob, which is haram

 "as it resemble a blowjob" Dear God, I'm going to tell this this to staff.  Avoid putting out product, "as it resemble a blowjob."

[Nintex]

how does he know that.

Insallah we lost a brother 

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

how does he know that.

Insallah we lost a brother 

Astaghfirullah 

[Nintex]

how does he know that.

Insallah we lost a brother 

Astaghfirullah 

[Polident]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bill-burr-defends-performing-at-controversial-riyadh-comedy-festival-%E2%80%9Cthey%E2%80%99re-just-like-us%E2%80%9D.1313038/page-5#post-145919806

always love posts like this. my dude no one would ask you to do this cause you have no talent or anything people would want to see

It’s so unfair. Can’t get the Arab gulf to pay me. Can’t get Israel to pay me. Can’t get a Chinese honeypot girlfriend to share state secrets with over bing chilling. Only The Gambia paid me in gamepass ultimate to ungay thebire, but between the price increase and opposite results, they’re out.

[RetiredSkunk]

All the middle aged men discussing, with much weight, an album full of songs written for teenage girls. What?

And of course, Mr. Arrested Development, soon to be Arrested At The Playground ZeroVagine, is in there waving his mangina around.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

who better to discuss a woman's work than a man?

[HaughtyFrank]

All the middle aged men discussing, with much weight, an album full of songs written for teenage girls. What?

And of course, Mr. Arrested Development, soon to be Arrested At The Playground ZeroVagine, is in there waving his mangina around.

And he's right back to his bullshit too

"Factually incorrect, this album is actually good. Look at the sale numbers and awards"

Retroactively trying to turn Midnights into a bad album is one of the weirder things I've seen in Taylor Swift discussion.

Personally not enjoying it is one thing, but using it as an example of Taylor's fall-off or something is hilarious.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/taylor-swift-announces-new-album-titled-the-life-of-a-showgirl.1267614/post-145981489

Can you actually make your own argument or is taking screenshots of critic reviews as evidence of quality the only thing you've got? Midnights is bad, no amount of "but look at the awards it got!!" changes that. Great you like it, but you're not going to make everyone praise bad writing and production.

[HardcoreRetro]

It does say that's the mean score. So if they were being nice it would've been at least a 95.

[DavidCroquet]

The funny part about the Bill Burr in Saudi Arabia thread is that the OP attempts a "this you?" burn from when Burr criticized Beyonce for performing for Gaddafi's kids.



So you all have been boycotting Beyonce since 2010 or...???

[RetiredSkunk]

All the middle aged men discussing, with much weight, an album full of songs written for teenage girls. What?

And of course, Mr. Arrested Development, soon to be Arrested At The Playground ZeroVagine, is in there waving his mangina around.

And he's right back to his bullshit too

"Factually incorrect, this album is actually good. Look at the sale numbers and awards"

Retroactively trying to turn Midnights into a bad album is one of the weirder things I've seen in Taylor Swift discussion.

Personally not enjoying it is one thing, but using it as an example of Taylor's fall-off or something is hilarious.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/taylor-swift-announces-new-album-titled-the-life-of-a-showgirl.1267614/post-145981489

Can you actually make your own argument or is taking screenshots of critic reviews as evidence of quality the only thing you've got? Midnights is bad, no amount of "but look at the awards it got!!" changes that. Great you like it, but you're not going to make everyone praise bad writing and production.

Might as well put this much energy in to the creative merit of Lazy town.

[RetiredSkunk]

*remembers that Zero keeps a female mannequin with a rope around its throat on his back porch.

He really is Buffalo Bill.

[BIONIC]

[benji]

Retroactively trying to turn Midnights into a bad album is one of the weirder things I've seen in Taylor Swift discussion.

Personally not enjoying it is one thing, but using it as an example of Taylor's fall-off or something is hilarious.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/taylor-swift-announces-new-album-titled-the-life-of-a-showgirl.1267614/post-145981489

Music critic reviews align really poorly with the later evaluation of albums, far more than movie or video games. All kinds of albums that are now considered genre classics were absolutely savaged at release and works praised are considered by fans to be the weakest. There's like an endless list of these back to the Beatles. I'm not saying Midnights is one of those, in either direction, but music is probably the worst field to attempt to prove people wrong with review scores.

Take a look at two sites that let users rate albums and there's thousands of scores:
https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/taylor-swift
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/artist/323-taylor-swift/
Midnights is at the bottom with her debut, reputation and The Tortured Poets Department. A 64/100 on one site and 2.71/5 on the other. The second site shows the critics score and its the greatest divergence from that aside from the latter. I'm not saying these sites are factually correct but if you want a fan consensus they're far better than citing ancient critic reviews. And they would indicate that Jeff's the outlier, not these other people.

The funny part about the Bill Burr in Saudi Arabia thread is that the OP attempts a "this you?" burn from when Burr criticized Beyonce for performing for Gaddafi's kids.

So you all have been boycotting Beyonce since 2010 or...???

Gaddafi was a fighter against capitalism, colonialism and white supremacy.

[Taco Bell Tower]

All the middle aged men discussing, with much weight, an album full of songs written for teenage girls. What?

And of course, Mr. Arrested Development, soon to be Arrested At The Playground ZeroVagine, is in there waving his mangina around.

And he's right back to his bullshit too

"Factually incorrect, this album is actually good. Look at the sale numbers and awards"

Retroactively trying to turn Midnights into a bad album is one of the weirder things I've seen in Taylor Swift discussion.

Personally not enjoying it is one thing, but using it as an example of Taylor's fall-off or something is hilarious.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/taylor-swift-announces-new-album-titled-the-life-of-a-showgirl.1267614/post-145981489

Can you actually make your own argument or is taking screenshots of critic reviews as evidence of quality the only thing you've got? Midnights is bad, no amount of "but look at the awards it got!!" changes that. Great you like it, but you're not going to make everyone praise bad writing and production.

ZeoVagina

I guess you missed the part where I said it's fine to personally dislike the album.

But it's silly to use it as an example of her fall-off. That would be like me not liking Red Dead Redemption 2 and using it as an example of Rockstar falling off. It's okay have the minority opinion on a piece of art. Just don't pretend that that opinion represents something larger.

(Also, the writing of Midnights was one of the regularly praised aspects in its critical acclaim so 🤷‍♂️)

[benji]

ZeoVagina

It's okay have the minority opinion on a piece of art. Just don't pretend that that opinion represents something larger.

 

[DavidCroquet]

Midnight Rain is alright.

[BIONIC]

Hey Jeff, looks like you accidentally deleted your quote tweet. Good you said the exact same thing to the exact tweet in a reply earlier:

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