I think using Fan Fiction, polls, Twitter, and Facebook are completely inaccurate ways to gauge the opinion of a fandom.
For example, let's say you are going to a family reunion, and there will be 150 family members there. You call 5 relatives, and ask if you should bring your award winning pumpkin pie or perennial favorite cherry delight. All 5 people recommend the cherry delight. Now, yes, cherry delight was unanimous. But 100% of 3% of the attendees is still just 3% of the attendees. That does not guarantee that the rest of the relatives will agree with that choice. Perhaps it will end up with 45% wanting the pumpkin pie, 25% wanted cherry delight, and 35% really don't have an opinion either way. The point being, you can't use the opinion of such a minuscule sample size to represent the opinions of the majority.
First, you look at the number of TBBT fans that are online on a semi-regular basis, which I don't have numbers, but I would be shocked if it was more than half. For example, my dad is a TBBT fan and has email, but I hardly consider him an online presence. So, then, of the people that are online, what percentage of them actually are hardcore fans enough to the point of posting on Facebook, posting on the forums, etc? The percentage of the overall fandom that is this massive online presence of Shamy fans is probably quite small.
Most of the people I know are not shippers of any sort. So the whole, "But everyone loves Shamy!" argument I see just doesn't fly.
You're correct. Very rarely do the viewers who are vocal online about a show add up to a good portion of viewers let alone half the viewers. There are examples all over to support this including online petitions and online campaigns to save shows that were getting piss poor ratings and the network would give the shows another chance only to see the ratings remain low or even fall. I know that there have been campaigns started online to remove certain characters from a reality show and when the producers listened and got rid of half the cast and replaced them with other people, because they were doing what the so-called vocal majority online wanted, the show wound up falling in ratings with the cast changes.
With 17 to 19 million viewers on average no way in hell most, or even half the viewers are on the fan sites, tumblr or tweeting about show.
I think using Fan Fiction, polls, Twitter, and Facebook are completely inaccurate ways to gauge the opinion of a fandom.
For example, let's say you are going to a family reunion, and there will be 150 family members there. You call 5 relatives, and ask if you should bring your award winning pumpkin pie or perennial favorite cherry delight. All 5 people recommend the cherry delight. Now, yes, cherry delight was unanimous. But 100% of 3% of the attendees is still just 3% of the attendees. That does not guarantee that the rest of the relatives will agree with that choice. Perhaps it will end up with 45% wanting the pumpkin pie, 25% wanted cherry delight, and 35% really don't have an opinion either way. The point being, you can't use the opinion of such a minuscule sample size to represent the opinions of the majority.
First, you look at the number of TBBT fans that are online on a semi-regular basis, which I don't have numbers, but I would be shocked if it was more than half. For example, my dad is a TBBT fan and has email, but I hardly consider him an online presence. So, then, of the people that are online, what percentage of them actually are hardcore fans enough to the point of posting on Facebook, posting on the forums, etc? The percentage of the overall fandom that is this massive online presence of Shamy fans is probably quite small.
Most of the people I know are not shippers of any sort. So the whole, "But everyone loves Shamy!" argument I see just doesn't fly.
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If the writers themselves can't even manage to care about what the characters like, dislike, prefer, etc, why should I?
Bitter, party of one here.....lol
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I know that there have been campaigns started online to remove certain characters from a reality show and when the producers listened and got rid of half the cast and replaced them with other people, because they were doing what the so-called vocal majority online wanted, the show wound up falling in ratings with the cast changes.
With 17 to 19 million viewers on average no way in hell most, or even half the viewers are on the fan sites, tumblr or tweeting about show.
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