MuleyFever
WKR
So some recent threads got me thinking about the effect of forums, like this one, and celebrities on peoples opinions, thoughts or general influence. I dont want to type out a book here so it may not get conveyed as well as it is in my head. I am in no way singling anyone out or judging anyone or any ideas.
The main threads that got me thinking about this, in no order, are the Gritty thread, the How Many Members thread, The China Clothing/Made in America threads and the Virus threads. Many other topics come to mind but nothing specific.
The main topic I have been thing about is the actual vs perceived influence or strength of a forum/celebrities or the ideas shared. The first thing that got me thinking about this was the Gritty thread. I was curios about Brian, or whatever his name is, so I looked at his YouTube channel. There are about 40k subscribers. The Rokslide members thread popped up after that and Ryan said there about the same number of registered users on Rokslide. Going back to the Gritty channel most videos only get a couple of thousand views. In that thread there appeared to be a lot of influence given to him but, is that really accurate? Or is it just that the people on this forum also happen to be the people that listen to him? Given his numbers and the members of Rokslide both being about 40k is that a good representation of the so called "hardcore" or "very active" hunter base in the west? Born and raised has about 130k subscribers, Newburg about 140k, The Hunting Public about 200k. Meateater has way more at over 400k. Some of those are maybe more diverse and appeal to more hunters/fishermen. However, in general they get way less views on any given video than subscriber numbers. In many cases less than 20-30%.
With over 10 million hunters and way more general sportsmen out there, these "influencers" are a drop in the bucket when measuring how many people they actually reach. In many posts though, we seam to give them a lot of power. Just an observation.
Im going to pick on the Thoughts on Clothes Made in China thread but mean no disrespect, just an observation in relation to the aforementioned topic. That thread is the most recent example of a thread that asks a question and then gets the desired conformation from the majority of posters. The thing is that the people involved make up such a minuscule section of the general hunting public. Again, I am not making any judgement, we all need things to talk about, but Its interesting how we confirm our bias and in some cases think that we have broad confirmation with such a small sample size.
Does our participation/consumption of forums/influencers/content providers and our perceived reach they have skew our view of what actual influence these mediums have? Is there a negative outcome if true? For example we assume a message, say support for public lands, is reaching millions when in reality its only reaching thousands.
Sorry, I wrote more than I planned. Anyway, just a topic of conversation while trying to stay home for the greater good. Lets confirm or disprove with an exceptionally small sample size on this forum.
The main threads that got me thinking about this, in no order, are the Gritty thread, the How Many Members thread, The China Clothing/Made in America threads and the Virus threads. Many other topics come to mind but nothing specific.
The main topic I have been thing about is the actual vs perceived influence or strength of a forum/celebrities or the ideas shared. The first thing that got me thinking about this was the Gritty thread. I was curios about Brian, or whatever his name is, so I looked at his YouTube channel. There are about 40k subscribers. The Rokslide members thread popped up after that and Ryan said there about the same number of registered users on Rokslide. Going back to the Gritty channel most videos only get a couple of thousand views. In that thread there appeared to be a lot of influence given to him but, is that really accurate? Or is it just that the people on this forum also happen to be the people that listen to him? Given his numbers and the members of Rokslide both being about 40k is that a good representation of the so called "hardcore" or "very active" hunter base in the west? Born and raised has about 130k subscribers, Newburg about 140k, The Hunting Public about 200k. Meateater has way more at over 400k. Some of those are maybe more diverse and appeal to more hunters/fishermen. However, in general they get way less views on any given video than subscriber numbers. In many cases less than 20-30%.
With over 10 million hunters and way more general sportsmen out there, these "influencers" are a drop in the bucket when measuring how many people they actually reach. In many posts though, we seam to give them a lot of power. Just an observation.
Im going to pick on the Thoughts on Clothes Made in China thread but mean no disrespect, just an observation in relation to the aforementioned topic. That thread is the most recent example of a thread that asks a question and then gets the desired conformation from the majority of posters. The thing is that the people involved make up such a minuscule section of the general hunting public. Again, I am not making any judgement, we all need things to talk about, but Its interesting how we confirm our bias and in some cases think that we have broad confirmation with such a small sample size.
Does our participation/consumption of forums/influencers/content providers and our perceived reach they have skew our view of what actual influence these mediums have? Is there a negative outcome if true? For example we assume a message, say support for public lands, is reaching millions when in reality its only reaching thousands.
Sorry, I wrote more than I planned. Anyway, just a topic of conversation while trying to stay home for the greater good. Lets confirm or disprove with an exceptionally small sample size on this forum.
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