I may have shared this article before — I’m getting to that age where I don’t remember and am too lazy to check the archives
A healthy reminder of our innate tendency to “see things not as they are, but as we are”.
The internet remains undefeated. And yes I too am writing things on the internet.
Excerpts below
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One of Wikipedia’s power users, Justin Knapp, had been submitting an average of 385 edits per day since signing up in 2005 as of 2012. Assuming he doesn’t sleep or eat or anything else (currently my favored prediction), that’s still one edit every four minutes. He hasn’t slowed down either; he hit his one millionth edit after seven years of editing and is nearing his two millionth now at 13 years. This man has been editing a Wikipedia article every four minutes for 13 years. He is insane, and he has had a huge impact on what you and I read every day when we need more information about literally anything
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Twitch streamer Tyler Blevins (Ninja) films himself playing video games for people to watch for 12 hours per day:
The schedule is: 9:30 is when I start in the morning and then I play until 4, so that’s like six, six-and-a-half hours,” Blevins said. “Then I’ll take a nice three- to four-hour break with the wife, the dogs or family — we have like family nights, too — and then come back on around 7 o’clock central until like 2, 3 in the morning. The minimum is 12 hours a day, and then I’ll sleep for less than six or seven hours.”
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If you consume any content on the Internet, you’re mostly consuming content created by people who for some reason spend most of their time and energy creating content on the Internet. And those people clearly differ from the general population in important ways.
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And from the comments:
I think there’s another thing skewing the numbers: People only tend to comment if their idea isn’t already in the comments. It’s easier to upvote someone who already said what you wanted to say than to write it again.
It’s like a sales funnel. People have to view the post, read some comments, find their opinion missing, then put forth the effort to type something instead of passively consuming more memes