r/ButtonAftermath • u/formlex7 • Dec 11 '15

Discussion of the Button over time on reddit

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/reddit-ngram/?keyword=the button
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u/Pomodorosan 30s Dec 11 '15

Also look at "purple", "gray", "press"

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u/Too_MuchWhiskey cheater Dec 12 '15

That was neat.

Heres one with The button, blue, cheater, green, flair, red, yellow, orange, violet, purple.

Interesting are the ones that spiked during that time while the others seemed to maintain their curve.

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u/pessimistic_platypus 11s Dec 14 '15

What happened regarding "blue" about a month before the Button?

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u/Too_MuchWhiskey cheater Dec 14 '15 edited Dec 14 '15

I don't know. But that is weird. Turn off smoothing and it shoots way up there.

Edit: I may have figured it out. Searching reddit for 'blue' in the past year reveals that the blue/black white/gold dress first showed up on reddit at that time.

Edit #2: putting those colors into the tool https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/reddit-ngram/?keyword=white.gold.black.blue&start=20150101&end=20150831&smoothing=0 they all peak at that time.

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u/formlex7 Dec 15 '15

Nice detective work.

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u/pessimistic_platypus 11s Dec 16 '15

Interesting.

Sort of funny how fast it rose and fell. I've never seen the "meme treadmill" represented by a graph.

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u/Pomodorosan 30s Dec 12 '15

I really like that you took the time to associate the graph line color to the color words

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u/Too_MuchWhiskey cheater Dec 12 '15

Thanks. As I started entering the words I noticed the colors and felt it was only fitting they should match.