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WCDT 03-07 May 2021 (4516-4520)
badbum61:
Rule #34.
That is all.
Gus_Smedstad:
In today’s strip, I think Marigold is being overly paranoid in step 2: Faye says something, and a nut-job fan overhears.
200,000 subscribers may sound like a lot, but it’s a drop in the ocean compared to the general population. Even if all her subscribers are in North America, this means only one in 2900 people is a subscriber, and most of those aren’t nut jobs. Even if we assume 1 in 10 would do what she fears, the odds are still really, really overwhelming that no one like that will ever set foot in Faye’s shop.
The rest of the cascade is plausible, but the reality is that letting her friends know she’s a popular streamer will never have any repercussions. The greater harm is that she’s lying to her friends, and that’s potentially dangerous to her friendships.
Mr_Rose:
Doesn’t have to be a direct fan. One of those “overheard in” type blogs could publish the convo and things could go from there.
Remember you’re no more then six hops from anyone else anywhere. The Kevin Bacon Game is just a practical demonstration.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Farideh on 06 May 2021, 18:22 ---Hannelore isn't a streaming sensation. She is 'just' the daughter of John Ellicott-Chatham, and even she got Clinton fan-boying out on her.
With Marigold's streaming persona being so well known and popular, she's likely not wrong in presuming that her fans would go above and beyond trying to figure out her real identity.
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Not to mention that 1) I doubt many people really know she looks like, and 2) most of the people who do would likely write her off as a look-alike.
Which begs the question; what are the laws regarding paparazzi in the QC-verse? Perhaps there was the particularly grizzly death of one or more stalking Hannercs mom back in the day and it put a pretty immediate stop to the practice nationwide?
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: awkwardness on 06 May 2021, 20:51 ---
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 06 May 2021, 20:12 ---
--- Quote from: awkwardness on 06 May 2021, 19:42 ---
And I know that there's a bunch that show their faces, but those who do aren't average to below average in looks as Marigold is so don't face the toxic harassment over her weight, looks, breast size, hair cut, eyeglasses that she'd get
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Even extremely attractive women face constant harassment and criticism of their appearance. Constant.
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Sadly, I know...but guys being guys the ones who aren't attractive get it worse just because they aren't attractive. I've seen a bunch give up on their dreams because of those scumbags, people are just vicious online.
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"Everybody is somebody's type."
Trust me, I've been online long enough to know that there'd be (and are IRL) plenty of people that be attracted to Marigold even though you're not.
[Sidebar: NEVER turn off family filter options when looking up fanart. NEVER.]
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