Let’s say 99.99% of the World’s population had not heard of them before this happened, and I think those numbers are very generous.
Does anyone seriously believe that after this event only 0.01% of the World didn’t learn about them?
So like. Hear me out.
What if, even if you were not personally affected, you still heard about crowdstrike because of the coverage?
I’m an ICT professional with 40 years experience and I’d never heard of them
But you have heard of them now, right? Kind of like that
me66@lemmy.world 3 months ago
zaph@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
You’re taking showerthoughts way too literally. It’s an exaggeration. The number didn’t “reverse” but it definitely multiplied. Businesses were impacted and who works for businesses? People who probably never heard of cloudstrike until it shut them down. It grounded flights and every person in an airport since then have probably heard the name. Anyone with a news app on their phone probably got a notification and know the company now. The number has drastically increased and that’s the point, not that it specifically “reversed.”
motorwerks@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Not only is this showerthoughts, as you pointed out, but the person posting never provided numbers for those that were previously aware of crowdstrike. Any attempt to do so by those responding takes the statement beyond it’s intention.
Serinus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The number didn’t “reverse” but it definitely multiplied.
Maybe he should have put the thing that did happen as the title.
But that’d be kind of boring, wouldn’t it.
zaph@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
It would and this is showerthoughts not truethingsonly
Carnelian@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Does anyone seriously believe
Yes. My assumption is of course that this shower thought is presenting a numerical fact, and that everyone upvoting believes it in a literal sense.
Serinus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s a dumb take that’s incredibly boring presented any other way. The only thing interesting here is how dumb it is when presented this way.
Carnelian@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Must suck being one of the only people smart enough to be offended by it
kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
When my grandparents call me to ask about something, I consider it main stream.
They called me the day it happened asking wtf was up.
I definitely think that the amount of people who know about has shot up probably a couple thousand percentage points, and not for the better, but it definitely didn’t flip.
The other guy needs to Google what “hyperbole” is though