Badges: Who thought they were a good idea, and where do you go to earn some of them?

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Fighting words. Violent disagreement. Cultural anarchy. Disrespect. More disrespect. Daring to contradict. No! No! No! Hate as a way of life. Indifference as daily food. Confusion floating across the landscape like 25 thousand cheap hanbok skirts. Frowns, frowns, and more frowns that Botox cannot erase.

Stop the madness, start new madness, recycle the old madness.

Water down the true taste of meaningful debate with the same lack of attention displayed by leaving a rameyon bowl untouched on the dinner table overnight. Waste gochujang; empty the sesame oil bottle as empty as any politician’s pleasantries.

Blow open a conversation with vehemence the way an unpricked egg blows open the door of a convenience mart’s overworked microwave oven.

You can do it all in a K-drama script, but don’t dare try in a Viki discussion.

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Fighting words. Violent disagreement. Cultural anarchy. Disrespect. More disrespect. Daring to contradict. No! No! No! Hate as a way of life. Indifference as daily food. Confusion floating across the landscape like 25 thousand cheap hanbok skirts. Frowns, frowns, and more frowns that Botox cannot erase.

Stop the madness, start new madness, recycle the old madness.

Water down the true taste of meaningful debate with the same lack of attention displayed by leaving a rameyon bowl untouched on the dinner table overnight. Waste gochujang; empty the sesame oil bottle as empty as any politician’s pleasantries.

Blow open a conversation with vehemence the way an unpricked egg blows open the door of a convenience mart’s overworked microwave oven.

You can do it all in a K-drama script, but don’t dare try in a Viki discussion.

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After replying to my own post twice with the same negative language, Oma Algorithm said:

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Hmpf! Just because she was Taekwondo champ in 6th grade, she is now insulting my “body.”

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Pretty sure you’d need some very heated exchanges between posters for it to even draw the attention of the mods. As it stands everyone here has been very pleasant with each other and so far you’re just the crazy ahjumma that likes to shout at traffic lights. (wonder if that counts as insulting? :thinking:)

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What if I start addressing you as '“ninjas_with_scallions”?

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I wish there are more choices than the one and only “like” button because I just want to LOL atm.

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Well, you may be “sure” but it wasn’t “pretty” for sure. Not in the least “heated” as far as those I’ve seen/read, but they weren’t civil. In any case, the mods are busy bees. Not sure if that’s good or not. I guess if the forum is overly moderated, the “fun” is overly tamed. Then again…

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Its actually bronze,silver and gold.

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Its pride month June 1st to june 31st
Viki even changed the profile picture on Instagram.
It is something related to LGBTQ+ members I don’t know much in detail.

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Why does the cynic in me think this is just to make sure an influential segment of the Viki community keeps subscribing?

The article below from the Rakuten.Today (November 2020) says," In the first half of 2020, Viki enjoyed growth of over 50% in its subscription business, surpassing 15 million monthly active users among more than 32 million registered. User-curated collections, reviews, fan forums, timed comments and crowdsourced subtitles all contribute to the site’s strong sense of community — something users say keeps them coming back."

https://rakuten.today/blog/rakuten-viki-launches-private-watch-parties.html

It was once estimated that those identifying as exclusively homosexual made up 10% of the U.S. population, and for years that figure was used to promote a “non-binary” political agenda. However, the actual percentage is probably around 4%.

https://www.npr.org/2011/06/08/137057974/-institute-of-medicine-finds-lgbt-health-research-gaps-in-us

4% of 15,000,000 active subscribers is 600,000. Even if that number of users is only paying the basic monthly subscription rate, the total amount they pay EACH MONTH is $2,994,000 US.

I would be inclined to see Rakuten Viki as truly making a bold social and cultural move regarding the LGBT+ community if all the information about Viki embracing that community and being cutting edge and increasingly popular and cool and relevant did NOT seem to be coming out of Rakuten Viki’s own public relations office AND if such information was published in social media in other parts of the world as well.

Not going to find this on Weibo as well, are we?

Not going to see this featured in social media in the United Arab Emirates, right?

Viki active users will wait in vain for the day the owner, CEO, COO, and Board of Directors of Rakuten Viki fly from Tokyo HQ to be grand marshals in a summer gay pride parade in San Francisco or Los Angeles.

They will wait in vain for Viki to show solidarity by holding a contest in which 200 winning LGBT+ Viki active users are flown to Tokyo and treated to a week of sightseeing, fine dining, and photo ops with Viki chaebols and their families.
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But you do realize why the numbers have grown that much, and it is not only Viki gaining more numbers? It’s other streaming pages as well. It is thanks to theater, movie theaters, concert halls all closing down … The cultural life came to a hold and people were looking for stuff that kept them distracted.

Whatever you think of Viki trying to get into, let’s call it “attractive markets”, I can’t fault them for trying at the very end every business in the world is there to make profit at the end. That is the driving point of capitalism.

But looking at the topic’s title why place it here, what has it got to do with badges?

And did I miss something, wasn’t it written somewhere that BL stories are intentionally made for women? Or I might have gotten that wrong.

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All the articles I have read about the popularity of online streaming of entertainment in general do reference the difficulties people have in going to movies, plays, etc.

Entrepreneurs have every right to try and make money to keep their businesses going, pay their bills, provide adequate salaries and wages for employees, etc.

I have friends and family members who do not identify as “cis-gender.” My “first love” in fifth grade came out in high school and was dead of AIDs at age 42. Everywhere I look in “woke” American culture these days, I see huge corporations getting all righteous and virtue-signally about supporting communities with alternative lifestyles . . . because it enhances their bottom line, not because they care personally about individuals.

If money-makers want to act as if they have pure, sincere concern for people when they don’t, that’s their choice, a choice that has bothered me for most of my adult life.

My comments perhaps should have been flipped over into a new topic, but since padmalayag
brought it up in this thread, I responded here.

And yes, BL stories have been discussed elsewhere on the community board as being not stories that are aimed at anyone in the LGBT+ community but stories designed for women readers. BL stories are a literary genre with a long history in both “Eastern” and “Western” cultures.

My take on BL is . . . if not-yet married women in very restrained cultures have the opportunity to see romance and marriage and marital struggles dealt with in positive ways . . . if they are allowed to ask questions of caring adult mentors without shame . . . if they are allowed to date and mate with clear support and encouragement and affection from their families . . . then BL stories as an outlet for lonely and repressed teen and adult women . . . cease to be necessary.

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I guess, there is also a list which ranks us by the amount of likes we received.

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Click click

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Wait what??- Where did you find this! Why am I there??? Huh - CRAZY - 397 hearts! I like hearts :purple_heart::purple_heart:

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Everyone is there, all 47,915 users. That you’re mostly in the top 3 whether filtered by week, month or quarter and sorted by hearts received, given or replies. It’s a good indication that this is crazies end of the table!
I like it, it’ll be useful for when we’re pitted against each other to the death Battle Royale style to be ruler of Discussions, I’ll know who I need to take out first!:chart_with_upwards_trend::bar_chart::stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Tears in my eyes from Lol :laughing::joy:

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We should start a CRAZIES fandom

Battle Royale

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You already have with your hottie posse topic :rofl::rofl::rofl:
that’s why I stayed :rotating_light: :radioactive:“You now have ten minutes to reach 30 miles minimum safe distance” :radioactive::rotating_light:

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It’s a segway, sometimes this happens :rofl::rofl::rofl:
Seg·way

/ˈseɡwā/

noun

TRADEMARK

  1. a motorized personal vehicle consisting of two wheels mounted side by side beneath a platform that the rider stands on while holding on to handlebars, controlled by the way the rider distributes their weight.

Or more appropriately What is a segway in conversation? A segue

A segue is a smooth transition. When you segue in conversation , you change the topic so smoothly that people might not even notice. A good speaker knows how to segue: they can get from one topic to another so easily that you hardly notice the topic changed.

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Their’s always shows up :heart: tho’ :face_with_hand_over_mouth::stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes::smile::laughing:

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