844k now. Wow. I wonder what caused the sudden surge? Or is it just that most momentum can be gain at the start and towards the end like with Kickstarters?
Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago5 minutes later and it’s 843k, almost 1k signatures per minute, not bad at all!
illi@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
After Ross announced the campaign is dead a bunch of YouTubers (and media, I think?) picked up the topic and started spreading the word far and wide. This is the result.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Here’s what bugs: Why didn’t channels like GamerNexus and LTT cover the petition until after Louis declared it dead?
Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s actually one of the most annoying parts about the whole thing. SKG campaign has been running for what, a year now? Barely anyone with an audience cared enough to even look into it, let alone spread the news. Now that things came close to failing suddenly everyone thinks it’s an important topic and scrambled to make videos/posts/whatever. I’d like to give them the benefit of the doubt but I just don’t have that in me any more…
We could’ve been in so much better place with awareness, petitions and general sentiment if people in the industry actually cared about these things from the start.Better late than never, I guess. I just hope there’s enough time to push through the EU petition as well.
Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Piewdiepie made a community post yesterday supporting it and asking people to go sign if that has still something to do with it.
illi@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Well whatever it was it seem to be working. 876k now. Crossing fingers.
sip@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
910k and going.
Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
He seems to be doing good stuff. Kinda giving whiplash
Kjell@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
2 hours later and it is 860k.
Damage@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
2 more and it’s at 880k holy shit
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
This is fucking bonkers.
I ran the math a fee days ago, before this absolutely blee the fuck up, and I came to:
We’d need 11k sigs per day until July 31st.
… We’re now apparently at more than double that and climbing.
Ho Lee Shit.
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I’m just worried some of them are botted, especially now that we’re less than 100k away from 1m.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I mean, its not technically completely impossible, but the vast majority of EU countries require a valid name, id, address, etc, its usually a pretty dumb idea to bot spam an official government web portal, and I’m sure there will be a review process after July 31.
Also… its not like it hits a million and then just no one else can sign up to it anymore.
It’ll stay open till the end of the month, could easily breach a million, maybe even two million if anything like this insane rate keeps up.
Klear@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No need to do the math, this site has you covered: stopkillinggamestracker.pages.dev
Right now we need 1669 per day remaining, though that number is probably going ot be smaller by the time you click the link.
Worth noting that the actual target is somewhere above one million, since there’s probably some invalid signatures mixed in and the initiative needs a million even after these get removed. Still, it’s looking really good.
kazerniel@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Total Count: 999,401. Signatures today: +106,521. Percentage to Goal: 99.94%. Time Left 27d 7h 4m 17s. At yesterday’s rate, the goal will be reached in 1 days (by 04/07/2025). We need at least 23 signatures per day on average!
23 per day atm :D
Klear@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s been like this for a while and the actual page where you sign the initiative is down right now apparently =D