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  • 2021-06-09 (xsd:date)
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  • ‘Average Jeans Colors Per State’ Map – Truth or Fiction? (en)
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  • ‘Average Jeans Colors Per State’ Map Claim Image depicts average jeans color per state. Rating Not True Like this fact check? Reporting On June 8 2021, an Imgur account shared a map chart meme titled Average Jeans Color per State, captioned beware of internet facts, a message we strongly endorse: Underneath the map (apparently shared to Tumblr ), comments from two accounts appeared: https://wumblr.tumblr.com/post/629481172667367424/a-guide-to-american-jeans In that exchange, one Tumblr account questioned the source of the data used to create the average jeans color map, and another assured the first that chart was not based on any real data: [u/smegma-factory] How ttf do you even get data like this? [u/wumblr] if you click through to the source, which is reddit, you can see that in many cases you don’t need any data at all! you can just retitle a population map, and delete your account when people ask for a source. hope this helps ❤ On that post, a source was listed as Reddit.com, and a linked May 2019 thread from r/MapPorn was titled Average Jean Colors Per State, 2018. As the second person stated, the original poster had deleted their account: Florida is where wokes go to die... Please enable JavaScript Florida is where wokes go to die Average Jean Colors Per State, 2018 from MapPorn Just prior to the Average Jeans Color r/MapPorn post in May 2019, the Twitter account @TerribleMaps shared the image: Average jeans colour per US state pic.twitter.com/FW7EzbH5Lr — Terrible Maps (@TerribleMaps) March 15, 2019 Only the title of the map appeared alongside the tweet, but @TerribleMaps had a bio reading: The home of terrible maps with a pinch of humour[.] However, the Average Jeans Color Per State map was not new in 2019; in 2018, CollegeHumor CEO Sam Reich tweeted the image (census data is fascinating): census data is fascinating pic.twitter.com/KjMNe3vmWF — Sam Reich (@samreich) July 6, 2018 Not long after, Reich described the average jeans color map as a joke in a response tweet: this joke is dedicated to @patrick_cassels — Sam Reich (@samreich) July 6, 2018 The Average Jeans Color Per State, 2018 map chart was a good example of humor getting divorced from its context and then appearing all over social media to sow confusion. It was tweeted as apparent humor in July 2018, revived by @TerribleMaps in March 2019, and migrated to r/MapPorn in May 2019. A concurrent variation on Tumblr was slightly better suited to addressing the quality of the information, if only for the comments. Posted in Fact Checks , Viral Content Tagged funny maps , imgur , map disinformation , map memes , maps , not a fun fact , not a study , political maps , reddit , viral reddit posts , viral tweets (en)
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