• illi@sh.itjust.works
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    29 days ago

    844k now. Wow. I wonder what caused the sudden surge? Or is it just that most momentum can be gain at the start and towards the end like with Kickstarters?

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      After Ross announced the campaign is dead a bunch of YouTubers (and media, I think?) picked up the topic and started spreading the word far and wide. This is the result.

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        Here’s what bugs me: Why didn’t channels like GamerNexus and LTT cover the petition until after Louis declared it dead?

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          That’s actually one of the most annoying parts about the whole thing. SKG campaign has been running for what, a year now? Barely anyone with an audience cared enough to even look into it, let alone spread the news. Now that things came close to failing suddenly everyone thinks it’s an important topic and scrambled to make videos/posts/whatever. I’d like to give them the benefit of the doubt but I just don’t have that in me any more…
          We could’ve been in so much better place with awareness, petitions and general sentiment if people in the industry actually cared about these things from the start.

          Better late than never, I guess. I just hope there’s enough time to push through the EU petition as well.

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      Piewdiepie made a community post yesterday supporting it and asking people to go sign if that has still something to do with it.