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I looked up how many people signed that petition to bring back a fired TV host
It was for that guy who got dropped from his morning show last year over some old tweets. I figured maybe a few thousand fans would sign. The real number was over 350,000 signatures on Change.org. That's a huge amount of people who think the firing was wrong. It made me wonder if online petitions actually change anything in these cases, or if they just show public feeling. Has anyone seen a big petition like that actually work to reverse a cancellation?
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parker_thomas5h ago
Man, I can barely get ten people to sign up for my fantasy football league. Three hundred fifty thousand? That's wild. I mean, it feels like those big petitions mostly just make noise. They show the company a bunch of people are mad, but I've never actually seen one get someone their job back. Maybe it just makes the person feel a little better knowing some folks cared.
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paul2518h ago
Honestly, that number is for a different petition from years ago. The recent one for that host got less than a tenth of that.
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Yeah but even a tenth of that is still a huge number of people. It's not just noise, it's proof of a real fan base. Companies pay a lot of attention to that kind of organized support, it changes the math for them. They might not always reverse the decision publicly, but it absolutely puts pressure and can affect future choices. Saying it only makes the person feel better really downplays how this stuff actually works.
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