Don't want Dan to think I'll ever forget about him. Here's a three part story.
After my post, "The Master of Lack of Critical Thinking" I wondered that Dan would react in typical fashion if he ever saw it. Specifically would he do numerology on it. When I type in the post title I see that in the full reduction method that yields a total awfully close, but less than 166, his magic number. Since I have critical thinking it was easy for me to connect the dots and take the next step. I understand the way the numbering systems work. The post clearly addresses Dan although not mentioned by name in the title.
Dan, the master of lack of critical thinking = 166
All he needs to to avoid the numerology is substitute Daniel for Dan. But he doesn't think that way.
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A fair amount of time ago Dan shared a story of how Ben Gleib, host of Idiotest, was a follower of his Twitter account. This was proven. No doubt about it, the screenshot he provided is solid evidence. Twitter tells you when someone is following you. The next step wasn't taken. The real story is Ben Gleib WAS following him. He commented that among his 114 followers Ben Gleib was among them. Well I checked and he wasn't there.
A perfectly logical explanation would be that Dan, being a fan, followed Ben's Twitter account. Then the account (notice, account...not Ben himself) did an auto follow return of the favor. That account is probably controlled by a publicist. After not seeing any signs of selling merchandise or other profit they simply stopped following Dan. But, for Dan this was a big deal and we get treated to some Idiotest themed YouTube numerology analysis. This isn't too bad, but...
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Dan's Bart To The Future video does get more attention than it deserves. Well over 100,000 views. I see this in the comments all the time. I was the 42nd person to watch it! And you talked about 42! Like it means something. In the case of Dan's video here he provides a screenshot showing 155 dislikes. It also shows that he gave it the 👍 himself. It's shaded in blue. And the number 155 means something because of the numerology. To finish the insanity of that plot point,"YouTube kept my dislikes at 155." As if actual people liking or disliking the video had anything to do with it. A number that you have some control over if it changes means something. The possibility for abuse is obvious.
This is an old video of Dan's. It's the Simpsons with Lisa becoming President and Homer looking for Lincoln's gold. When I first found out about it because if his mystery over the Indian tapestry comment left, I checked the comments before my post. To see if I had any more info posted between Dan's post and mine. As a gesture of good faith I disliked it just based on the content without watching it. My dislike was one of the 155. As a further gesture of good faith, I removed my dislike last week. Just to be a dickhead and change the dislikes to 154.
Somewhere between then and yesterday it was back to 155 dislikes. Odds are that Dan or one of his friends noticed the discrepancy and since 155 is magical,changed it back. As a further gesture of good faith I changed the dislikes total to 156 yesterday morning. I'll keep changing it every day just to prove the point. Partial totals, no matter how distantly separated are meaningless. And knowing that it probably drives him crazy...scratch that...crazier is just a happy bonus. Probably the only solution he has is to change the dislikes to 155 and then change the setting to Private. But where's the fun in locking people out from commenting and you getting a clue to look for more numerology?
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