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C. Thi Nguyen

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
771 total appearances

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Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

One tweet that you have is kind of slightly clever and a little bit funny and all 1,000 people find it mildly funny and then forget about it in 20 minutes.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

That tweet will probably pick up like 1,000 likes or like 500 likes.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

Imagine you say something else that's weird and thoughtful and almost no one gets it except two people have their life changed by it.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

That tweet will pick up two likes.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

This is Matt Stroll's point, that if you go back and you look at the reviews of like movies that are like generally considered great now, I mean, and I'm kind of dodging here because I'm using this like now they're considered great.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

But if you look back at most of them, most of them were incredibly divided.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

You had critics exploding like with, this is the most amazing thing ever.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

And other people being like, this makes no goddamn sense.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

Like everything is incoherent and weird.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

And like that, when you take that to Rotten Tomatoes, that's going to show up as 50%.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

Your mediocre crap cram will show up as 50%, but so will that.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

Nothing about this has to be great.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

Weird-ass comedies, like some of my favorite comedies

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

Get busting hysterical comedies also don't do great on Rotten Tomatoes because they only appeal to, like, there's nothing here that says gritty, right?

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

Some of this is just about particularity.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

Let's separate.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

There's so many things in this Rotten Tomatoes point.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

But let me separate a few things.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

There are two questions.

Bankless
Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning | C. Thi Nguyen

One is whether Rotten Tomatoes will accurately give you what you want.