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I wonder if the Rule continues (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago by imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[-] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 90 points 9 months ago

Can someone OOTL this one for me?

[-] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 194 points 9 months ago

Oh poop I didn't have the third panel which has....

haha 'vid

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 9 months ago

So this is a litmus test, kinda like using the Big Mac price to assess a nation's economy?

[-] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 11 points 9 months ago

Holy shit OP thats really cool

[-] 404@lemmy.zip 155 points 9 months ago

As some of the other commenters say, one of covid's trademark symptoms is loss of smell and the comment curves coincide with the outbreaks.

[-] NinjaCheetah@sh.itjust.works 80 points 9 months ago

I believe it’s suggesting the negative reviews are all people with COVID, with the spikes in negative reviews being spikes in COVID cases, based on the dates.

[-] TootSweet@lemmy.world 76 points 9 months ago

Covid causes loss of smell. Spikes in bad reviews of Yankee candles correspond with covid spikes. Not because of anything wrong with the candles. Because of something wrong with people's schnozzes. Specifically loss of smell due to covid.

[-] SmoochyPit@beehaw.org 16 points 9 months ago

The reviews probably correspond with covid outbreaks.

[-] Midnitte@beehaw.org 10 points 9 months ago

Further context

[-] VolcanoWonderpants@lemmy.today 13 points 9 months ago

So I'm guessing a competing company bought a bunch of bad reviews at the same time. But how did the second person put it in a graph? Is he really that passionate about protecting Yankee Candle from slander, or are those review reliability things more advanced than I thought...?

[-] proper@lemmy.world 143 points 9 months ago

I’m thinking these folks had covid

[-] snapoff@sh.itjust.works 76 points 9 months ago

This was during the omicron surge I believe

[-] VolcanoWonderpants@lemmy.today 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Ah, I didn't look at the dates very closely, thanks for clarifying. I didn't lose my smell after having covid, but I know others did, and I'd honestly forgotten about that symptom until you mentioned it. (Edit: it was actually @SmoochyPit@beehaw.org who mentioned that. Sorry. It's been a long day ...

[-] snapoff@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

No worries man, I had just seen it before and recognized the context. I didn’t lose my sense of smell when I had covid either, but everything tasted awful. And idk if it’s related but now I get whiffs of random smells that are unlikely to be present and other people say they don’t smell, like gravel and metal. So weird.

[-] ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi 10 points 9 months ago

No that's the two first outbreaks, it's covid 1st edition

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

So weird that they considered Covid Elf a class back then..

[-] snapoff@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

It’s all a blur in my head. I thought we were well into omicron territory by late 2021.

[-] jj122 25 points 9 months ago

My guess is this is a covid spike after a holiday where many candles were purchased/gifted.

[-] SmoochyPit@beehaw.org 16 points 9 months ago

I’m not sure how or why he would’ve come across that data, but as far as competing companies go…

There definitely weren’t any widespread virus outbreaks in December 2021 and 2022 which affect the ability to smell, that’s for sure! /s

Kidding aside, maybe covid was just a really complex form of corporate sabotage between candle companies 🤔

[-] KillingAndKindess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 9 months ago

Or maybe they had a bad batch or ran out of a particular ingredient and everyone eventually got those batches they thought they could pass off 🤷🏻‍♀️

[-] snapoff@sh.itjust.works 13 points 9 months ago

I think it’s so funny to imagine the boardroom Yankee Candle version of Mr Burns deciding to offload a bunch of crummy product during a covid surge. Ingenious

[-] key@lemmy.keychat.org 3 points 9 months ago

Or maybe Yankee candles have a baseline error rate in their manufacturing, insufficient QA, and are more commonly purchased over the holidays. The charts show absolute number of reviews and only during the post-covid period. To be semi-meaningful it should show the "no smell" reviews as a percentage of all reviews and include pre-covid years as a comparison.