intelligentshipper:

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And once again, me here to bash my head off my desk about it.

I’ve already talked ratings to death. In fact, it’s pretty much what I’m grounded to in the fandom really. One look at my #ratings tag and it’s most of my personal content generation. And a lot of the people currently quoting ratings have used my material when it’s convenient to them to believe (and of course those on the other side that have never made a damn lick of sense about ratings to begin with), but we’re here. Again.

Keep in mind. I didn’t necessarily feel thrilled by the premiere either. This is not even in defense of the premiere, it’s just exhaustion with seeing people mis-cite ratings. AGAIN. Bitch about the premiere all you want but the ratings card is definitely not the way to be going with this, fam.

So let’s have a realistic talk about what the hell is going on in ratings right now.

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