So I’m guessing a competing company bought a bunch of bad reviews at the same time. But how did the second person put it in a graph? Is he really that passionate about protecting Yankee Candle from slander, or are those review reliability things more advanced than I thought…?
Or maybe they had a bad batch or ran out of a particular ingredient and everyone eventually got those batches they thought they could pass off 🤷🏻♀️
I think it’s so funny to imagine the boardroom Yankee Candle version of Mr Burns deciding to offload a bunch of crummy product during a covid surge. Ingenious
I’m not sure how or why he would’ve come across that data, but as far as competing companies go…
There definitely weren’t any widespread virus outbreaks in December 2021 and 2022 which affect the ability to smell, that’s for sure! /s
Kidding aside, maybe covid was just a really complex form of corporate sabotage between candle companies 🤔
This was during the omicron surge I believe
Ah, I didn’t look at the dates very closely, thanks for clarifying. I didn’t lose my smell after having covid, but I know others did, and I’d honestly forgotten about that symptom until you mentioned it. (Edit: it was actually @SmoochyPit@beehaw.org who mentioned that. Sorry. It’s been a long day …
No that’s the two first outbreaks, it’s covid 1st edition
So weird that they considered Covid Elf a class back then…
My guess is this is a covid spike after a holiday where many candles were purchased/gifted.
I’m thinking these folks had covid
Can someone OOTL this one for me?
Further context
The reviews probably correspond with covid outbreaks.
As some of the other commenters say, one of covid’s trademark symptoms is loss of smell and the comment curves coincide with the outbreaks.
I believe it’s suggesting the negative reviews are all people with COVID, with the spikes in negative reviews being spikes in COVID cases, based on the dates.
Covid causes loss of smell. Spikes in bad reviews of Yankee candles correspond with covid spikes. Not because of anything wrong with the candles. Because of something wrong with people’s schnozzes. Specifically loss of smell due to covid.
Oh poop I didn’t have the third panel which has…
So this is a litmus test, kinda like using the Big Mac price to assess a nation’s economy?
Holy shit OP thats really cool