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I looked up the actual numbers on that comedian's old tour...
Everyone's saying his apology video was fake because he's just trying to save his career. I got curious and checked the ticket sales data from 2012 on a concert stats site. His tour that year only sold about 40% of its seats in most cities... he wasn't even that big back then when he said those awful things. It makes me think maybe he really has changed, because he wasn't some huge star protecting an image. Has anyone else dug into the history like that before deciding if an apology is real?
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brooke_taylor1mo ago
That data dive is interesting. Reminds me of a band I liked that got canceled for old tweets. Their early show flyers were all DIY, playing to like twenty people in a basement. Hard to fake being sorry when you had nothing to lose back then.
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the_robert1mo ago
Yeah, nothing says real change like a forced apology tour after you get a record deal... bet those old flyers are worth a mint now.
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That point about the DIY flyers for basement shows really hits home. I read an article last week about how a lot of these old controversies come from when people were basically nobodies, just yelling into the void. It's a different kind of sorry when you're cleaning up a mess you made for an audience of fifty people versus one you made for millions. The data check makes more sense than just going by the tone of the apology video.
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