Can someone OOTL this one for me?
Oh poop I didn’t have the third panel which has…
So this is a litmus test, kinda like using the Big Mac price to assess a nation’s economy?
Holy shit OP thats really cool
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.
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.
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.
The reviews probably correspond with covid outbreaks.
Further context
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…?
I’m thinking these folks had covid
This was during the omicron surge I believe
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 …
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.
No that’s the two first outbreaks, it’s covid 1st edition
So weird that they considered Covid Elf a class back then…
It’s all a blur in my head. I thought we were well into omicron territory by late 2021.
My guess is this is a covid spike after a holiday where many candles were purchased/gifted.
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 🤔
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 🤷🏻♀️
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
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.
It’s interesting to see drewtoothpaste unexpectedly
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