FlippantBuoyancy

FlippantBuoyancy OP t1_je5w9xq wrote

Reply to comment by AntoniaFauci in [OC] How Big Brother Canada murdered my favorite subreddit (r/BigBrother) by FlippantBuoyancy

Interesting, I had some similar experiences during the first week of the season. And quite a few conversations with the mods.

Ultimately, I suspect there is an element of both things at play: (1) sedated viewership because of no feeds and (2) the subreddit self-sabotaging. A good handle on this might be just comparing the episode threads (gold bars) between BBCAN10 and BBCAN11. Posts in the episode threads shouldn't be getting censored to any significant degree. Yet the comments for BBCAN11 still lag BBCAN10 by a large amount.

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FlippantBuoyancy OP t1_je5c4cd wrote

Reply to comment by RustySilverSpork in [OC] How Big Brother Canada murdered my favorite subreddit (r/BigBrother) by FlippantBuoyancy

Now that I'm on my cell, I realize it's rather hard to see the hashing on the BBCAN11 bars. But yes, your understanding is correct: each day has a smaller BBCAN11 bar directly to the right of the BBCAN10 bar.

So days 1 and 2 are really the only days where engagement was even remotely similar.

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FlippantBuoyancy OP t1_je3x2j4 wrote

Reply to [OC] How Big Brother Canada murdered my favorite subreddit (r/BigBrother) by FlippantBuoyancy

Big Brother Canada is a reality show wherein 16 contestents inhabit a house that is isolated from the outside world. Up through season 10, viewers could continously monitor the contestents via so-called "live feeds". However, the producers decided to remove the live feeds for the current season. The live feeds were replaced with daily curated content known as "digital dailies".

The plot above shows r/bigbrother subreddit engagement in terms of total posts per day. The first three weeks of the previous season (BBCAN10) are compared to the current season (BBCAN11). The four threads that correspond to live feeds (morning feeds, afternoon feeds, evening feeds, and LNC feeds) no longer exist in the current season (BBCAN11). They have been replaced by a single daily subreddit thread: digital dailies. Both seasons share three threads related to episodic content: the episode thread, the spoiler thread, and the post episode thread.

The plot was constructed in OriginPro. Data was pulled using the {social}^grep API.

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