• frezik@midwest.social
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    24 days ago

    Never got around to it, but I wanted to do a statistical search of Reddit usernames that pop up in subreddits with two or more numbers at the end. You’ll of course have lots of people with '86 or '92 because they had their birth year at the end of their username. I’m betting '88 sticks out on the bar chart. Not everyone with an '88 at the end will be a nazi, but a disproportionate number with '88 would be a hint towards what kind of people the subreddit is attracting.

    • Justas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.works
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      23 days ago

      Wasn’t there a copypasta about someone born in the 88 and having it in the username, being called a nazi and being sad about it?

      The punchline is that the username in question is GasTheJews88.

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      22 days ago

      you also would have to normalise over all the usernames of the platform. as a number repeating itself, i would assume that it generally attracts more attention. source: i compete in team sports. after the birthyears repeating numbers are the ones most often chosen for jersey numbers.