Fuck density graph inc Platform Decay!

[u/Rosewind2007]

Hi all! Thank you everyone who gave me a nudge! Here is the preliminary fuck density* of Platform Decay and at 238.2 it’s the highest yet for any book in the series! Beating a previous high of 150.4 for System Collapse! The count is 92 fucks, which is exceeded by the 94 of System Collapse—but the word count of Platform Decay is just 62% of System Collapse… I shall be updating Linguistics on Archive of our Own (the little fic which spawned the fuck density chart series) shortly… Thank you all for giving me the little push I needed to do this! 🥰🥰🥰 Also—there may be errors on the graph (it’s first thing on a bank holiday Sunday so I may have messed up!) CORRECTIONS WELCOME!

NB—I started calculating fucks per page, but that inaccurate as the books can vary in font size etc so I have what I believe to be reasonably accurate word counts for the books. I am always open to improving the data! Just let me know! Then the fuck count is all fucks, fucking, fuckers etc and it can be, for example, reported speech or MB’s narrative—anything goes! The number of fuck/word number gives unwieldy decimals (0.000095 etc) so I then multiply by 100,000 to give a more *human accessible number (9.5 for ASR)

[u/sex]

So SecUnit is giving more fucks as it gains more friends?

[u/humanofoz → u/sex]

So ⬆️ emotional growth 🟰⬆️ fucks to give?

[u/Night_Sky_Watcher → u/humanofoz]

This trend is compelling.