So, the Anti Valentine cards have been flying off the server since we launched them again a week ago. As is customary at this point, before the big week and associated traffic arrives, I thought I’d put together a little graph to show what’s happening.
This is a breakdown of the cards being selected and sent out by users.
As you can see, the most popular card (as in previous years) is “Fat. Naked. Dangerous.” closely followed by the one with the anti-consumerist message.
However, in a radical departure from previous years, we can clearly see “destined to die alone and unloved in a room heavy with the tang of cat wee” rocketing up the charts, proportionally-speaking. In years gone by, it languished in the bottom half of the chart - but this year, it seems to have struck a chord, or found acceptibility.
Or, alternatively, it may have been linked to by a cat-fanciers messageboard. That’s usually the explanation.
[…] One of the dreaded days of the year (for both sexes) is spiraling down. Merry Hallmark [Anti-]Valentines Day…. (card popularity breakdown). Two favs: Happy unimaginative, consumerist-oriented and entirely arbitrary, manipulative and shallow interpretation of romance day. # Oh, is there something special about today? I hadn’t noticed. # […]
Hey Meg,
Any idea if the card site will be up and running tomorrow in time for VD?
Chris
It’s having some problems due to overwhelming demand. We’re doing our best to keep it online.
But doesn’t this just prove how strongly people feel about the “holiday”?
Thanks for fixing it up so quickly — I can now tell my partner that he’ll “do”.
You are making this whole VD business bearable for a lot of people.
As always, for the third year in a row, I will be sending out the Fat. Naked. Dangerous. Has always been my favourite :-)
Thanks for having these and as Christine said, making it bearable :-)
I took advantage of being able to fill in someone else’s email address to send “Stop talking about your fucking wedding”, to a colleague. For some reason or other they saw through the deception and knew it was me.