"Thank you to all the beautiful write ups about me."
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The device got write ups on CNET, The Spoon, and Mental Floss.
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There were more write-ups, more clicks, more Cloud Appreciation Society members.
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Good write-ups on this debacle over at the WSJ and TechCrunch.
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People kept pressing play and they scored a couple rapturous write ups.
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Inside, a waiting room has historical write-ups about the falls on display.
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For those so inclined, the journalists include reported write-ups of each organization.
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Another of the women claimed that after the protest, she "began to be treated differently, including receiving write-ups for low rates—even though, in the past, I had occasionally posted lower rates but had not received write-ups for them."
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Then, new disciplinary write-ups for the inmate caused the parole board to reconsider.
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"I'm sick of all the b-------, bogus write-ups and my job," Racicot concluded.
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On one (really good) day, participants submitting write-ups hailed from nine different countries.
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Don't rely on just one or two write-ups, as these might be outliers.
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The write-ups have attracted curious people from all over the world for haircuts.
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Linoleum floors, a few tables with chairs, walls covered in accolades and glowing write-ups.
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The papers received rapturous write-ups in the New York Times and the Washington Post.
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I get to find local gifts in our area and do little write-ups for them.
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And none of the glowing write ups of Fromaggio appear to rely on actual eyewitness accounts.
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Look for some more hands-on write-ups with various new features in the coming months.
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Then to show how serious they are, they are doing [write] ups for violating social distancing.
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Yes, it got four or five star write-ups from pretty much everyone who's reviewed it.
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And those write-ups can mean more time in solitary for the most vulnerable behind bars.
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That book garnered widespread critical acclaim, with write-ups in The Comics Journal, Comics Alliance, and VICE.
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Leaving hype aside, many of these write-ups fail to mention any of the study's glaring weaknesses.
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You know, like most people, that glowing write-ups and five-star ratings can be easily bought.
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You can check out write-ups of all 88 startups from Day 2 plus our favorite picks.
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And you know, fast-forward, 2012, 2013, the scholarly write-ups about the Facebook emotional contagion experiments.
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Investors from Fred Wilson to Brianne Kimmel shared their write-ups with their throngs of Twitter followers.
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Also to Deb Amlen for her write-ups — they definitely add to my solving and constructing experience!
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After, I need to do a few write-ups on investment ideas I got from the conference yesterday.
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Here's a look at the first nine companies in Snapchat Yellow, courtesy of write-ups provided by Snap.
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Still, the daily write-ups are may prove useful in helping you process your heartache with no judgment.
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Any more write-ups like this, and this Greenwich Village performance space won't be much of a secret.
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By evening, the journey of the MPR raccoon had become an internet sensation with write-ups around the globe.
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"If we get more than three write-ups in a certain amount of time, we get terminated," Catherine said.
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We'll let you choose your favorites from our write-ups of all 373 that pitched on the record today.
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Thank you to all the beautiful write ups about me," he wrote in another tweet, then added, "forever grateful.
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I was curious because I've been reading a bunch of write-ups that describe your character as a sexual predator.
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You won't know that from reading write-ups that treat this study (or any study) as a Columbus-level discovery.
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I believe these write-ups were unfounded and based on behaviors I never saw anyone else get written up for.
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As of this month, Simpson had no disciplinary write-ups indicated on his online profile with the Nevada Department of Correction.
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A couple of different write-ups of your music have mentioned the fact that your father was a promoter in Sheffield.
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Did journalists track down people involved in the video, or are they caveating their write-ups with phrases like "appears to be"?
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So were write-ups by BuzzFeed and SB Nation, among others, as well as local news interviews with the team's young players.
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Under President Trump, previous issues of 1600 Daily have included predictable write-ups from Fox, Breitbart, Townhall, and the New York Post.
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Apple's new App Store is also heavily editorially-driven, with longer features, write-ups, interviews, lists, and more, in addition to recommendations.
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Within days, our golem for the digital age had become a runaway success, garnering thousands of followers and numerous press write-ups.
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We asked them to pitch their favorite destinations in about 150 words or so, about the length of the final write-ups.
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Corbell's film received breathlessly credulous write-ups in some parts of the media, while Joe Rogan fans seemed awed by the interview.
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Finally, the retaliation became too much: It was constant criticism, unfounded write-ups, and even sabotaging me from doing my job properly.
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TechCrunch reached out to several people who wrote about and were involved with blog posts and write-ups about the Bird converter kit.
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In order to find the best treadmills on the market, we scoured the web for write-ups and left no treadmill review unread.
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Many of them appear to be five-star write-ups from accounts with European-sounding names and a sometimes robotic grasp of language.
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Among the pages of write-ups and reports, Ms. Dockery speaks in her own words just once, making a complaint after being shackled.
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So if the moderator is giving me good episode write-ups, and giving me good links and jumping-off points of the conversation.
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Two years ago, Holmes's company had a $9 billion valuation and she was gracing the cover of Fortune and garnering write-ups in Wired.
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But write-ups of these polls have often been accompanied by the caveat that polling is volatile in the immediate wake of the conventions.
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They don't even especially care about their (respectable) Pitchfork scores, except for where the accompanying write-ups dip into judgment on individual members' character.
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As for this first phone, there's a lot more on Essential's Web site as well as lengthy write-ups at The Verge and Wired.
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The post garnered straightforward write-ups on both culture outlets like The FADER and Vulture and political sites like Business Insider and The Guardian.
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In order to find the best treadmills on the market, we have scoured the web for write-ups and left no treadmill review unread.
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A lot of the write-ups and videos out there gloss over how Lzplay works and just how many permissions it has access to.
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The company's cutting-edge technology, unrelenting surveillance, and constant disciplinary write-ups push warehouse workers to be more productive and put themselves at risk.
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Check out our picks of the 7 best of today's startups, plus come back for the write-ups of all tomorrow's companies and the highlights.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's largest independent estate agent reviews site allAgents has removed Purplebricks' page after the online company questioned the authenticity of critical write-ups.
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He received awards and write-ups, and while he didn't receive any extra monetary compensation for his idea, he felt empowered and full of joy.
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Either way, as countless postdebate write-ups have already pointed out, it was a return to the "fighter" identity that Massachusetts voted for in 2012.
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The first 10 write-ups about heroes saving people from burning cars are astonishing; it's difficult for the remaining 1,257 to carry the same jolt.
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Workers, the manager said, were also written up if they didn't keep up with the facilities packing rate, and several write-ups could mean termination.
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Reading the headline, I thought it would be one of the usual write-ups narrating the harrowing escape from an equally harrowing life in the north.
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Those criteria include gender, current age, age at time of arrest, gang membership, substance abuse, prior convictions, and disciplinary write-ups for bad behavior in prison.
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"It quickly became clear as these unusual write-ups spread across Southwest's stations that something coordinated was beginning to occur," the airline said in the lawsuit.
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All I've been able to glean from the write-ups is that it's a vaguely horny collection of human-shaped cats who writhe around a lot.
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Aim to work three to six months ahead and ensure you have your artwork, press write ups, marketing plans and press strategies all in place weeks before.
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The 11 factors include age at the time of first arrest, gender, current age and the presence or absence of disciplinary write-ups during the inmate's incarceration.
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There are "specialized websites" that present a blend of real and fake news and distorted write-ups of financial research, he said, without citing the specific sites.
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Individual polls are useful for gauging the effects of discreet developments, which is one reason why we often include write-ups when worthwhile news surveys come out.
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In addition to the constant write-ups and countless interviews, last year she published her own memoir, the New York Times best-seller Waiting to Be Heard.
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In the early write-ups of the book, a few names — Kelly, Mattis, Cohn, Dowd, and former White House staff secretary Rob Porter — come up conspicuously often.
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Meanwhile, the two employees involved just received write-ups in their employee files but have not been suspended, demoted, or terminated for their actions, according to White.
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It's a thing I rarely, if ever, mention in product write-ups, because, if done right, shipping containers are generally the least interesting thing about a product.
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You can check out our write-ups of all 228 startups that launched yesterday, and TechCrunch's picks for the top 222 from the first half of the batch.
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PotCoin's debut in 3 made quite a splash, with write-ups appearing in publications such as TechCrunch, Vice, and Business Insider, but then it sort of fizzled out.
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Be sure to check out our write-ups of all 85 startups from day 1 plus our top picks, as well as the full set from day 2.
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My sister used to manage a restaurant and says customers used to threaten her with bad write-ups, sometimes leaving one-star reviews without even sampling the food.
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"I've been a loyal employee here for over a year and a half, and I'm sick of all the bullshit, bogus write-ups and my job," he said.
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It also featured some surprisingly useful travel articles in its "Get Inspired" section, including write-ups on Spanish sparkling wines and ideas for family-friendly locales in Ireland.
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Misleading scores and write-ups have proven a big problem in e-commerce, with Amazon being a prime target for merchants looking to hype up their products online.
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Most similar is NewsGuard, which offers "Nutrition Label" write-ups on websites to discern "which ones are trying to do legitimate journalism — and which are not," its website explains.
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I've looked around online at other people's write-ups on their SXSWestworld experiences, and haven't seen anyone else describe finding some elaborate little storyline related to this particular letter.
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Of course, if you get that kind of praise, you've likely heaped up some other accolades along the way, from glowing newspaper write-ups to overwhelmingly positive Yelp ratings.
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So it gets some local buzz, a $33 million dollar investment, bigger blog write-ups and then a New York Times article to top it all off last month.
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He just landed a profile in The New York Times, glowing write-ups in places like The Daily Beast and Newsweek, and appearances on Jimmy Kimmel and Good Morning America.
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The analysts also pointed out that Goldman performs "event-driven" write-ups and write-downs on its private equity portfolio, citing April commentary from Goldman Chief Financial Officer Stephen Scherr.
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I'm going to read the dramatis personae write ups of each of these characters, and you're going to realize we secretly had a dope set of characters in this show.
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She has become arguably the best-known saw player in New York, and has found her way into numerous write-ups, movie soundtracks, radio programs, television segments and music festivals.
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According to both write-ups, the Latvian diplomatic representative at the table pushed back strongly against the Italian request, cautioning that October was not the right time to discuss the issue.
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Following Hillary Clinton's concession to Trump in the early hours of November 9, membership shot up almost instantly, earning the group write-ups in publications ranging from Vox to Rolling Stone.
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All begin as possible announcements — pithy write-ups based on what couples say about themselves — while a few go on to become slightly longer Mini-Vows or fully reported Vows features.
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" Gordon Crovitz, NewsGuard's other founder/CEO, told Recode, "We're actually very optimistic that there are going to be technology companies beyond Microsoft that do license our ratings and our write-ups.
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After write-ups in TechCrunch and a mention by popular blogger John Gruber, the $0.99 sticker pack shot to the top of the Top Paid and Top Grossing sticker packs for iMessage.
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Rucker, who was named "Cashier of the Month" earlier this month, also told the Post that prior to the encounter with the customer, he had received two "write-ups" from his superiors.
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Not only is it a fun idea, but the theme is particularly tight, by which I mean consistent, as Mr. Chen has said in some of his write ups on XWord Info.
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The write-ups speculating on what the Rockets might fetch (more than a billion, easily) highlighted the fact that Houston had recently traded for Chris Paul, one of the league's best players.
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Legends like Brooke Astor, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton, Anna Wintour and Debbie Harry receive authoritative write-ups that also pay tribute to the lesser-known women who cleared the path for them.
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"If our score is below what is considered acceptable, they put us down to a two- to one-table section, then after that we move to write-ups, including termination," the server said.
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The regulator said it found over 100 listings on eBay offering to sell fake write-ups between November 2018 and June 2019, and 26 Facebook groups with users offering to write fake reviews.
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Sachon's write-ups, while clearly an investment of time and a labor of love, never look like a real stretch of journalistic acumen because the boys and their fans make it so incredibly easy.
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Finally, all adaptations were judged for their overall quality, not for their faithfulness to the novels and stories on which they're based (although the write-ups acknowledge any massive diversions from the source material).
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I've noticed whenever — we do transcripts and write-ups of all our podcasts — and even when those things explode and we embed a player, and so you can listen to the podcast right here.
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And the firm's second fund is one-third returned with a paper valuation at nearly 5 times its money, given the fair market value write ups of the deals in the portfolio, Garrett said.
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The solution is a process called "minimization," wherein the name of US citizens on the call or mentioned on the call is replaced with some kind of descriptor in the intelligence community's write-ups.
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By 2012, seapunk had amassed an unprecedented amount of buzz for the relatively small size of the subculture, with write-ups in everything from small fashion magazines and local newspapers to the New York Times.
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Just one day after actress Jodie Whittaker was tapped as the first female Dr. Who, some British tabloids published nude photos of the actress and write ups on her various nude scenes in past projects.
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However, except for the write-ups on Kanye West's "Fade" and Kelela's "Rewind," acknowledgement beyond a name-check and one-line description of the producer and their creation is hard to find on this list.
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Because the new Airbnb Stories aren't tied to a particular rental, but rather a destination in general, they could include videos and write-ups of these experiences or places of interest like bars and restaurants.
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From the get-go, numerous write-ups of "Part 8" followed a similar path, noting the influences or similarities of the episode with Kubrick's 2001 as well as the avant-garde works of Conor and Brakhage.
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As a SoCal transplant, she isn't taking these opportunities in the hair spotlight for granted; she's churning out tons of killer styles that demand double-taps on social media and write-ups on the biggest sites.
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I don't like making these write-ups about awards — the Tonys aren't the arbiter of quality, and so many of the shows I loved this year aren't even eligible — but I had to put that somewhere.
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Most are more biographical about the artist and, depending on the site, can merely be two-sentence write-ups, jamming in a publicist-provided quote from the artist, and directing readers to the pre-order link.
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You can check out our write-ups of all 85 startups that launched on Demo Day 1, and come back later for our full index of the 23 startups from Day 2 and our top picks.
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After write-ups from pilots saying that overhead bins on some 737-800s were not closing after the updating, the planes were taken to American's maintenance base in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where mechanics discovered additional issues, Schaible said.
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Her efforts to discredit everyone from the alt-right to anti-trans radical feminists by using their own rhetorical style against them has received glowing write-ups in Current Affairs, the Verge, Vice, and the New Yorker.
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In addition to write-ups in local media like City Paper and WYEP, he's one of the few rappers here who can command a crowd on his own, without having to be part of a larger billing.
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Southwest said soon after it began experiencing "an uptick on cosmetic and other minor maintenance write-ups," leading to an unprecedented number of aircraft out of service and forcing the airline to delay or cancel hundreds of flights.
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For example, it said the number of write-ups for minor interior systems such as a missing row number on an airline that does not assign seats spiked almost 400 percent to 500 percent after talks broke down.
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In the US, her write-ups come from traditionally black outlets like BET, Vibe (and, to an extent, Complex), and she played Afropunk's original Brooklyn festival in August this year during a sold-out four-date US tour.
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The clip of Mr. Trudeau, 44, excitedly breaking down quantum computing during a visit to the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, this month prompted admiring write-ups from both Canadian and American news media outlets.
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But a closer examination of Barry's curatorial rationale (evinced in Film Notes and excerpted in MoMA's online write-ups for each screening) illuminates the unique cultural climate of the 1930s that Barry navigated in developing the Film Library.
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VARIETY PUZZLE — Because I struggled so greatly to finish this spiral puzzle, I looked up the last several for comparison and read their write-ups — I think it's not just me, and this one is really a doozy.
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When she returned, Hicks received multiple write-ups for minor infractions, and was demoted from an investigator to the patrol unit, which left her with a lower salary, no car and a requirement to work on nights and weekends.
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Before the overtly racist alt-right were widely known, the more mainstream alt-light largely flattered it, gave it glowing write-ups in Breitbart and elsewhere, had its spokespeople on their YouTube shows and promoted them on social media.
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While at this point it is just rumors from ardent fans, YouTube compilations of the two actors together, and tabloid write-ups, Bugheads are living for all news related to the possible IRL couple of Reinhart and Cole Sprouse.
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Applicants for the visa are required to demonstrate "a high level of achievement" in their field, backed by a portfolio of accomplishments (awards and write-ups help a lot), numerous recommendation letters from peers, and a US-based sponsor.
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The power—and more pointedly, the pleasure—of an afternoon spent perusing the endless logs about Doomed Green 83-Balls, Blue Ferrari's, and Yellow YoYos, stems from that uneasy position the write ups, and the attendant comments, find themselves stumbling into.
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It's quietly been building an advertising business that has gotten write-ups in Advertising Age and AdWeek, as well as a profile of its artificial intelligence content moderation tool, but has remained mum about the new direction the company is taking.
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Facebook Diversity Update: Positive Hiring Trends Show ProgressInstead of releasing the raw numbers that align with how employees are organized internally, most diversity splash pages (which are usually cited in diversity write-ups instead of the EEO-1) offer only percentages.
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She said the write-ups started after she began circulating a petition to change the school's emblem to include gold — representing the city's black school district prior to its integration in 1969 — rather than its current green-and-white scheme.
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"If you cough or sneeze or something and need to physically disinfect, you don't have time to do that because they are maintaining these really fast rates," Jake said, referring to the common practice of rate-based write-ups for management.
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"My few friends that still work there that took the buyout are fighting against bullshit write-ups from superiors to try and fire them/make it so miserable they quit before having to pay them their 'buyout,'" the recently-departed employee claimed.
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The real appeal of his write-ups is the way they combine two major passions of online film-nerds: A deep, affectionate nostalgia for the films of the '90s and '00s—even the bad ones—and an increasing fascination with movie metrics.
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I gave tours to potential students and their parents who had expressed (unfounded) concerns about gender-neutral bathrooms in the dorms; then, in my final year, I interviewed high schoolers and submitted write-ups about their performance to their official admissions files.
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Because although it's one thing to be able to buy fake reviews from humans online; it's another when the process can be completely automated, with AI bots churning out super realistic write-ups on Amazon, Yelp, TripAdvisor, and everywhere else you look.
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As I reported in November 2014, not only did Duffy's beloved VP of marketing almost immediately leave Nest over an apparent culture clash, but numerous employees I interviewed, along with scathing write-ups by former employees on Glassdoor, pointed surprisingly to trouble.
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The first invites for Initiative Q went out to a select group of people five months ago, but in recent weeks, the invites have reached the masses, leading to write-ups in places like Forbes and Google searches for "Initiative Q" to spike.
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All of which is money well spent—especially when you consider the many write-ups just like this that mention those flattering facts (We can do meta, too, Skittles.) "This definitely was a bad idea," Hall and the company belted out in the closing number.
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The supposed nastiness of the creamy-coloured, brown-glazed puck has contributed to Air Koryo being regularly branded the worst airline in the world by review website Skytrax, although customer write-ups of the airline are far more favourable than the site's in-house verdict.
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You probably think that I sit there with Giles Coren and Miranda Hart talking about the quality of my track premier write-ups, as we quaff champers and roar with laughter—a self-satisfied trio hopped up on smugness and very, very, very pricey pasta.
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Netflix does not offer viewer statistics on its shows, but between all the elegiac write-ups and the sad texts from my friends that say they will have to "talk to some food about this," I gather that constantly streaming 30 Rock is a common experience.
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We're not saying people are starved for Star Wars content right now, but when a Reddit theory that doesn't even pretend to be true gets multiple write-ups, it's possible that maybe Disney should try and get some new material out there sooner rather than later.
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In its various write-ups of the threat, including a white paper about the malware and blog post summarizing the white paper, ESET says it has found "indications" the malware was "likely" behind a 2016 attack against the Ukrainian power grid that lasted for an hour.
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A Google search for the phrase at the center of the campaign, which is promoting a $1 soft-drink deal, showed results from relatively obscure blogs on Monday, some of which were written last week, as well as write-ups from websites like Fox News and Thrillist.
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Arguably, though, what this was all building up to—what we had all really hoped it would result in—wasn't an interview on morning television, or write-ups by the global press, but this: Singaporean lawmakers discussing it extremely somberly in a special Parliamentary hearing on fake news.
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After the "transgender tipping point" in 226, sensational trans people and aesthetics were all the rage, earning write-ups and video spots from the likes of Mic, NowThis, Bustle, and other LGBTQ-friendly online publications and their pivot-to-video enterprises (prefiguring the 22018 launches of Into and Them).
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Outtakes: • It is plausible that a film like "Red Hot" could get a review in Variety, which did brief write-ups of "Deep Throat" ("doesn't quite live up to its reputation as the 'Ben-Hur' of porno pix") and "Behind the Green Door" (Marilyn Chambers "does everything, quite realistically").
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It achieved national recognition as a thriving model of e-commerce, winning glowing write-ups in national newspapers after it was named in 2015 by the tech giant Alibaba as central China's very first "Taobao village" – a designation for top rural sellers on the company's internet retailing platform.
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"My first idea for the book was dense and encyclopedia-ish, but after a while it was apparent that it was simply too much work for one person to create, and so the book was rebooted into its current form, which is picture-heavy with minimal write-ups," said Amos.
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Lionheart, a film in which Nnaji plays a woman taking over her family's business in a male-dominated world, is her first foray into directing, and the movie earned positive write-ups in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times earlier this year, even being called "groundbreaking" by the Daily Dot.
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J. thinks he deserves his parole—he's been clean for nine years, hasn't had any write-ups, took all the programs and classes they told him to take—but he thinks all this media hype is going to screw with the parole board and put pressure on them to keep him locked up.
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Over the course of a 20-plus-year career covering television — a career that began with NYPD Blue write-ups in his University of Pennsylvania dorm room and is still going strong — one of the most crucial things Alan Sepinwall has learned is how ephemeral both great TV and television criticism can be.
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News sites like this one shoulder much of the blame, but so do the hundreds of thousands of people who retweeted the original thread, the thousands more who shared both the initial write-ups and follow-up stories, and the dozens of others who used this moment as moral justification to hound random strangers online.
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The three Muslim Somali women working for Amazon at the Shakopee, Minnesota facility allege that they feared taking time away from work to pray and faced being issued "write-ups" (disciplinary citations) that could potentially lead to their termination, according to a letter that was included in the complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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At the meeting in Brussels, the Italian diplomat noted it was important that funding from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), as well as the European Investment Bank (EIB), be unblocked in order to support civil society and small and medium-sized businesses in Russia, the two diplomatic write-ups of the meeting state.
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The AP tried covering Minor League Baseball in 2006 but couldn't report on as many games Automated Insights' software has proved itself accurate in its reporting on other topics so far, but AP's sports division spent a year testing the software to make sure the Minor League write-ups it spat out made sense for fans.
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He told the Beast that standing on his feet all day was correlated to worsening ankle pain that eventually required surgery, and when he returned to work after a two-month break, he was disciplined for taking bathroom breaks necessary to manage his irritable bowel syndrome and diverticulitis:He received two write-ups and was told that another violation could result in suspension or termination, he said.
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Subscribers to this email got the lowdown last Thursday, but check out the write-ups of our special task force meetings that took place on the day — about growing fervor for regulating Big Tech (moderated by Kara Swisher), how best for the U.S. to engage with China (moderated by Thomas Friedman), and the need for leadership to reduce gun violence (moderated by David Gelles).
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This success is partly why San Francisco's plant has achieved something approaching celebrity status, with numerous write-ups, including a big spread in France's Le Monde newspaper; visits from some 50 film crews, mostly for television; and roles in two major movies: the 2012 documentary "Trashed," featuring the British actor Jeremy Irons, and the popular new French documentary "Demain," about solutions to global problems.
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One of the assumptions that doesn't get much attention in popular write-ups of realignment theory is the idea that American politics is set up to be unresponsive (our many veto points and split governmental control), thus leading — as with creedal passions — to moments in which feelings about politics, justice, equality, distribution, morals, and so on boil over, creating pressure that elites cannot ignore.
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CEO, New York Dog NannyThe ways I've felt different: I was one of the trailblazers in bringing pet reiki to the mainstream in NY.How they've made me more successful: Since this is an "off-beat" service, it has gotten us write-ups and features in Time Out NY, Huffington Post, and AM New York, which not only helped normalize alternative treatments but also helped get us new clients.
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TripAdvisor suggests this kind of thing doesn't happen—that they root out unfair reviews—but scroll through the listing for any spot with 255-plus write-ups, and you get the impression that some reviews go left unchecked: Scrolling through multiple one-star critiques, I tried to picture these faceless assassins—these would-be genius critics, who become incensed when their free tap water is delivered to them at room temperature, who are profoundly affected by lighting design.
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In the pre-Super Bowl ad — released three weeks before the Super Bowl, as part of the YouTube-era rat race to get advance write-ups and possibly a viral hit during peak-commercial-watching season — Gillette shows young boys bullying each other and beating each other up, older men touching women's shoulders in business meetings, and suburban dads lined up at a never-ending row of charcoal grills saying, "Boys will be boys," over and over while watching incidents of light violence.
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But my larger point is this: Billions is a show that a lot of critics wrote off somewhere in early season one, and while it got the typical, "Hey, this show has gotten a lot better" write-ups late in that first season and (especially) in season two, the recently concluded third season seems to have crossed some sort of threshold in terms of its popularity and the willingness of its fans to bug you about it nonstop on various social media platforms.
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