Alright, I got my coffee. Time to for more autism.
Totally different circumstances. WoW has been on a decline for years and Blizzard had the allegations debacle, only people invested into the gun stuff watch those announcements. I'd say that without the cooling effect that WoW trailer would have 75% dislikes rather than a 60-40 split.
Meanwhile the Brandon Herrera video had actual content, which people like watching, and also attracts people who only know the VSS from videogames and know nothing about BRCC.
At nearly 300 dislikes, Brandon Herrera got "brigaded" by 1/3rd of the people who brigaded Joe Biden.
You're moving the goalposts. Your basic assumption is that Brandon Herrera's audience, which skews younger, is pissed off at BRCC. If that's true, the video should have gotten an appreciable amount of dislikes, and proportionally more than usual for his videos. It didn't on both accounts.
Right now the video with Mat Best is at 1.3% dislikes. His previous three videos are at 0.5% (Elon Musk is buying the ATF), 0.8% (Cursed Gun Images that drive me to drink) and 0.7% (The military chooses its new service rifle). His most recent, most disliked video is the one that angered the vatniks by calling the AK-12 kinda shit, at 1.4%. His last "I'm pretending to be scientific but I'm actually a dudebro!" video, the one testing Alec Baldwin's claims that his revolver went off by itself, is at a
whopping 2.7%. All those videos were published
after the dislike bar was removed, by the way.
Brandon's average dislike ratio seems to be around 0.7%. Unless a lot of angry people show up to dislike the Mat Best video, it's likely that video is going to remain 0.5% to 0.6% above the average. So sure, there's a difference. But to quote the Patron Saint of Gun Autism Paul Harrell, is it enough difference to
make a difference? It isn't. A community that's actually
angry at something reacts far more strongly than this. 10 to 20% dislikes, minimum. Even Mat Best's own channel, which one would imagine would get a lot more abuse, barely cracks 2% dislikes.
I completely understand why people are angry at BRCC, and I'd be angry too if I had fallen for the grift. But to claim they alienated a
significant portion of their customer base with the reaction to the Kenosha Kyle fuckup is ludicrous because we don't see any actual
numbers stemming from this. Either their "core demographic" of young right-leaning people wasn't offended by it to any appreciable amount, or that core demographic is
a lot broader than everybody assumes it is. Either way, they're marketing themselves to normies and most normies don't seem to have cared enough (or even been aware of the controversy) to do anything about it.
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