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Community Survey Results by graveyard-whistler from Tumblr
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Link to Tumblr post: http://graveyard-whistler.tumblr.com/post/138115948035/community-su...
I saw this today and I thought it was something that should be shared here on the Kommunity. I don't know if any of you beasts saw or took the survey when it was originally posted (I honestly can't remember when it was), but it's interesting to see the stats and answers. (You don't have to say here if you took the survey.)
What I found really interesting was the "Summary of Write-In Community Opinions" section. The user listed some very interesting comments from the survey takers about things they wanted to see changed from within the various R&L communities. I thought you'd all be interested in reading about it since the Kommunity is mentioned. I didn't realize some people felt that way.
I can also sometimes overthink things as many of you can, but I try to remind myself to relax and accept things as they are. I also agree that people should accurately post sources to their posts if needed. And I think it would be important that we try to spread our wings a bit and crossover into other communities to see what they're all about and get involved. We should be able to bring peace and love to everywhere we go and in everything we do. That's my 2 cents. :)
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Permalink Reply by Grace (Pheasphant) on
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This was interesting...
I didn't know that so many liked RL personal story GMMs over food episodes
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Permalink Reply by Heather S. (YogaGhost) on
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I know right!? But I love the personal stories! That is how they first started their show anyway. It makes them more humbling and like you're just hanging out w/ friends or family. :)
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Permalink Reply by Juhi (Swarnix) on
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However much I enjoy their episodes on food, it's cool to know there are many others than just me who thoroughly enjoy episodes on R&L's personal stories over the food episodes.
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Permalink Reply by Alli (gator) on
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That was interesting to read! Thanks for sharing!
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K-ModPermalink Reply by Gumbo123 on -
Interesting results. I never knew about this until now because I do very little on social media outside the Kommunity.
Would be interesting to see if the results were the same had the survey been promoted via a Kommunity member e-mail blast announcement, as I did for It's a KBE tournament! Favorite R&L Duo earlier this month, which generated a total of over 15,000 responses through the eight (8) rounds of voting - - lowest individual round turnout of 1,482 / high of 2,373.
I only published the survey on Tumblr in order to watch how fans would spread the link, and of the 624 respondents, ninety percent discovered the survey through Tumblr via the original post or reblogs.
I think that, had more hardcore Kommunity members been aware of the survey, the results below might have been totally different, especially the last statement which indicates that the majority of those who are strictly Tumblr users are only viewers and not contributors. Maybe I just don't understand the platform, but I rarely see any type of "discussion" on Tumblr . . . unless you consider a "like" or a "reblog" to be a meaningful exchange of thought.
13.7% of the 614 respondents did not engage in discussions with other fans.
Of the remaining 530 responses, the top platforms for community discussion are:
- Tumblr (426 of 530 - 80.4%)
- In-Person Discussion and Skype (308 of 530 - 58.1%)
- YouTube Comments (167 of 530 - 31.5%)
- Twitter (149 of 530 - 28.1%)
- RhettandLinKommunity (124 of 530 - 23.4%)
Most of the respondents (450 of 606 - 74.3%) have never purposefully submitted or mailed anything to Rhett and Link or created content for other fans (331 of 609 - 54.4%).
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K-ModPermalink Reply by Victoria (Centauromadoose) on -
I'm not sure how you define "contributor," but engaging in discussion about episodes and sharing one's thoughts contributes as much to a fan community as mailing fan items or creating fan art. Otherwise there is largely silence.
I do agree that a wider/more varied response base could have altered some of the results, but I don't believe that any of the Tumblr participants are less "hardcore" than anyone on the Kommunity or other social media platforms. There are also many people who cross platforms and are active across several different social media accounts.
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K-ModPermalink Reply by Gumbo123 on -
But on the little I've seen on Tumblr (simply because I find the incesant use of gifs soooo annoying) there is not any discussion or sharing of thoughts. Just clicking a like or share button is no more a discussion than popping a potpie into the microwave should be considered cooking.
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Permalink Reply by Sarah (RiverMouse) on
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It's important to note that a lot of the fanbase on tumblr is around college and highschool age. I think it makes complete sense that there would be less original contributions because those fans are most likely focused on other things (namely school). I used to never come onto the Kommunity or even tumblr while in college because I just never had the free time, but I still loved Rhett and Link and was an avid daily watcher. Now I work from home so it's easier for me to come on and join discussions.
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K-ModPermalink Reply by Victoria (Centauromadoose) on -
We see different things on Tumblr, then.
Yes, people reblog a lot, but they also add a chain of comments to the discussion. Tumblr users also have a tendency to add commentary in the tags of the post rather than in the text -- I honestly don't know why that is, but that's the way it goes a lot of the time. So if you're not looking there, you could be missing the discussion. Sort of a similar thing happens on Twitter with added commentary via hashtags, but the hashtags appear in the body of the tweet, so they're easier to spot.
Creating gifs is also, in itself, a form of fan contribution...I don't always enjoy them either (it depends), but it takes some work to make a gif -- quite a few people do it manually in Photoshop rather than using easy online sites like makeagif.com or whatever.
Anyway, my point in debating this with you is that the survey and others have pointed out a division between various areas of the fandom (Kommunity, Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc.), and I think it's worthwhile to be more inclusive where we can. People have their preferences, but I'm not into the idea that one place is conclusively better than another.
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Permalink Reply by Heather S. (YogaGhost) on
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I agree w/ a lot of this as well! Even though the social media sites are different in many ways, I feel like it's all the same, really! A fan on Tumblr is just as much a fan on Twitter as is Facebook, etc, because each site provides a different style and outlet for fans of a particular eye. (like art or music, there are different genres and styles, but it's still called art or music). :)
I'm very new to Tumblr (and probably a bit older than most users there), but I like seeing how different and similar the fan appreciation is over there. I actually do see some discussion, but it's rare and gets easily buried in the continuous wall of posts. My experience so far is that if users are discussing content, like we do here, they do so in private messages (that little arrow at the bottom of posts, I think?) so discussion isn't public, unless it's reblogged/reposted.
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Permalink Reply by Sarah (Shaywise) on
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I'm 26, so probably a little older than the average Tumblr user (I think) but I think there's a lot of good stuff that happens in the fandom there. I spend most of my RandL time there. :) Conversations can be held, not just through reblogs and private messages, but also through submitting asks, which are comments or questions submitted (often anonymously) to blogs that can be answered publicly. I've found these especially useful when the popular RandL blogs answer a bunch of these. It's interesting for me to find people's opinions of each day's episode.
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