Intelligentshipper’s Rating for Dummies is Utter Stupid Crap. Her links for the ratings only goes to a fan blog that doesn’t appear to have much traffic, I’ve never heard of that blog. Actually her post title is accurate, her interpretation of the rating system will only appeal to actual dummies.
You want Ratings for Dummies, then go to Supernatural (U.S TV series) Wikipedia here. Their list of demo rating and ave. viewership numbers are from variety of legit media sources. Anybody can see that the Cas eps are neither the highest nor the lowest rated eps because Cas is not relevant to ratings so his presence doesn’t make a difference. It would be like saying a Charmed episode got high ratings because of Darryl Morris. I liked Det. Morris more than most of the characters but he was irrelevant to the ratings.
As I kept scrolling down (and down and down) on that post, intelligentshipper’s voice got angier and angier. Why so much anger? I’ve been rude on my own posts a few times but I usually simmer down by the time I reached the end because I got it out of my system. Intelligentshipper sounds so perpetually butthurt that it made me think she had worked on Hillary Clinton’s failed presidential campaign, sending her nudies to Huma Abadin’s husband was all for nothing.
Wait, intelligentshipper is the reason why I’ve gotten Asks from anons asking if there was such a thing as “negative space”? That person is what got you all twisted up? *rub my temple*’ remember when metas used to be based on actual on-screen text? At least the good metas were. There is no such thing as “phantom leads” or “phantom canon” because if it is not talked about then it doesn’t exist, period. It’s why Dean stans get so angry that other characters usually don’t talk about Dean, it’s why Cas girls get so upset that Sam and Dean barely mentions Cas while dicking around in their own lives. The Walking Dead’s Neegan didn’t show up until the end of season 6 but they talked about him all damn season long. Fraiser’s Niles Crane always talked about his wife, Maris, so she is a real character and more importantly, she feels real to us even though we never saw her.
Wait, she named her own url “intelligent”? You know who called himself the most ethical person in the world with a high IQ? Keith Raniere, the founder of NXVIM that enslaved 150 women for sexual service and gotten Allison Mack aka Cloe Sullivan into so much trouble. As for his alleged high IQ, Keith took a home test of his IQ and declared it was very high. Sounds like Intelligentshipper’s own home blog with all those ratings.
Hey look, I found a liar under a tag with my name! So here’s that fan blog. It’s called spottedratings.com. Which, if you aren’t a cantankerous, self-blind idiot, you can check any given day of ratings as they release, and find hundreds of posts from hundreds of accounts per hour. Don’t believe me? Wait until the SPN premiere, go the next morning to spottedratings.com, click the day – it usually posts around 10 AM CST – and watch the madness roll in. Oh, woops! Doesn’t receive much traffic. Sure, Jan. Fan blog – sure, jan! Fan of… 100s of different TV shows for 30 years of ratings service. A+ detective work.
Also, the intelligent shipper name is, ironically, a shot at idiots like you. There’s an entire story about exactly where the name came from, but again, A+ detective work. I’ve considered rebranding because you self-jerking self-blind jerkoffs can’t detect irony or when you’re being laughed at over “what do you think you are, an intellectual?” being the only clapback one day when I used the dictionary and literary resources. Good JOB though.
The fact that you can’t divide “anger” from “done with gentle handling idiots with no comprehension skills” (see: this post) and treating them like the willful idiots they are? That’s a personal problem on your front. This isn’t anger. This is so much eye rolling I literally can’t be assed to continue to treat you like squishy marshmallows when the line between “aggressive, intentional idiocy” and “innocence” ends, especially with blatant lies like “fan blog.” By the way… is tvbythenumbers a fanblog (Gunsmoke Rule), (TV Decline)? Showbuzzdaily? Nielsen and the NYT? Like this isn’t something they teach in marketing modernly. Or like this isn’t something they’ve already been discussing and adapting marketing strategies about well beyond your fandom bubble. (I could keep going on how dumb you are about my sources, but I won’t.) Because ironically, your only response for a better thing is… a… supernatural… wiki…
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I’m going to let you sit and self compute how stupid that is.
In fact, to scale this even better, according to alexa.com, the only of the above that receive more traffic than spottedratings.com are Nielsen’s own site and the New York Times, which… well *gestures vaguely at* They don’t disagree with it either. But just in case you still want to take issue with, IDK… the biggest newspaper around and the source of TV ratings themselves, I did helpful pre-googling for you of “Decline of TV ratings by year” for you to try to find a single article that disagrees with me, be it short term or large scale. Go ahead. Shuffle out a source. Take your time. I’ll wait. But I’ll even give you a helpful boost- there’s a nice article that the NFL went up, not down. Of course, if you read the article and understand why that was a headline worth being taken as shocking to anyone paying attention, you may want to be a cartoon ostrich and put your head in the sand. Also, have one in image searches, both official ratings sources and marketing firms – and yes, people’s personal blogs who have been tracking this universal issue long before you guys decided to whack off about it in fandom corners.
You’ll bluff and bolster it’s not and that you’re perfectly justified, because earning the worship of equally self blind followers is more important to you than authentic discussion, but at least you’ll probably have one tiny spark of self awareness right there.
When have I EVER made a post about negative space? I’ll wait.
By the way, good work misciting “phantom lead” without context or link to the post or the way the term was used, because that isn’t how it was used at all, but hey-o. Who needs actual substance? Or… you know… the dictionary. Or industry definitions… which defines Misha as a secondary lead. Or the showrunner.
Lmao phantom canon is never a phrase I have ever, ever, ever used, good try though. In fact, I made an entire post about that NOT being a thing, but jerk off.
Just because you don’t like or don’t understand something doesn’t make it untrue, and just because you refuse to review entire documents or sources doesn’t mean those sources aren’t legitimate. And it definitely doesn’t give you clearance to spread bold faced lies about someone and their content.
If literally *all* you have is ad hominems and “nuh uh”s, your argument is already dead. Do not confuse this with someone being 100% done with your stupidity and calling a spade a spade and not being fluffy with you, nor confuse that as them being angry, as much as – at best – mildly annoyed by perpetual idiocy in fandom echo chambers. But that’s what you’ve got: ad hominems, lies about content, and “nuh uh.”
Gr8 game m8.
Re: your ask about intelligentshipper, she wrote a very long two-part series (posts 171511773350 & 171566934275) called Ratings for Dummies, all about how ratings really work, according to her, and how they prove that Cas eps are the highest rated and how S13 had higher ratings than S1. Also on how Misha saved the show, how Cas is a “phantom lead” and destiel is “phantom canon” with a bunch of charts that mostly have nothing to do with SPN, but I guess she thinks make her look smart?
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