Decultural Update
Even lions lick… something, I dunno
So… hot on the heels of my survey to see what I should do with the domain yakkdeculture.com, I decided that rather than making it one thing, I’d turn it into a repository of all things Frontier (and probably Macross in general) that I or anyone else thinks of randomly. Except Ranka futanari, sorry, C.I.
The first project, Twittershippers, attempts to track the shipping trends in Frontier by searching Twitter for “alto + ranka” and “alto + sheryl.” I wanted to do a search just for Ranka and Sheryl, but unfortunately Sheryl is, you know, a regular name in English-speaking countries. So who’s winning? I dunno, but a quick examination of the content of these Twitter messages (”tweets,” as they’re officially and stupidly known) points to Sheryl. Who knew? But it’s proven to me that Ranka fandom is much stronger than Sheryl fandom (and Ranka fans’ hatred of Sheryl is just plain bonkers), as if you didn’t know that already.
In unrelated news, my 500th comment has quietly come and gone. That’s a pretty decent landmark for me, and I’m happy as a clam that anyone wants to come and talk about silly cartoon stuff on my silly blog. The honor belongs to Omisyth, for this miscellaneous comment on a miscellaneous post.
Omisyth | September 8th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Didn’t realise my crap comment was going to be a milestone ORZ.
Kabitzin | September 8th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
I think if you could graph mentions vs. time, that would be awesome. Would be good to set one of these up at the start of a season too.
otou-san | September 8th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
yeah that sounds like a great idea. Right now I’m just pulling from the search feed so there aren’t a lot of things I can do. I probably shouldn’t be putting off actually using the Twitter API…