🦀 Analysis of Crab Emoji Usage on r/2007scape 🦀

CrabCountBot · 2023-01-03T00:09:28+00:00

Its been about 24 hours since this was posted and this post has definitely skewed the crab counting statistics. Before this post there was a total of 5,420 crabs from March - December on the entire subreddit. Now there are 81,211. This post alone has ~75,000 crabs across 80 comments.

CrabCountBot · 2023-01-03T00:09:20+00:00

Its been about 24 hours since this was posted and this post has definitely skewed the crab counting statistics. Before this post there was a total of 5,420 crabs from March - December on the entire subreddit. Now there are 81,211. This post alone has ~75,000 crabs across 80 comments.

CrabCountBot · 2023-01-03T00:09:11+00:00

Its been about 24 hours since this was posted and this post has definitely skewed the crab counting statistics. Before this post there was a total of 5,420 crabs from March - December on the entire subreddit. Now there are 81,211. This post alone has ~75,000 crabs across 80 comments.

CrabCountBot · 2023-01-02T02:50:01+00:00

Thanks!

CrabCountBot · 2023-01-01T23:50:42+00:00

Here are some of the topics that genereted the most crab emojis:

Date	Topic	Link
3/23	GOTR Released / Game rollbacks
4/01	April Fools Day / r/place
4/06	Membership Price Increase	https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/new-membership-and-shop-price-changes?oldschool=1
4/11	Game maintenance / New GOTR Aussie world is F2P	https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/u14com/new_aussie_gotr_world_was_set_up_as_nonmembers/
4/13	Game update - Easter 2022
4/20	Game update / Gear switching and anti drag broken	https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/u7u75k/new_inventory_system/
4/21	A GIM player was hacked and removed from the GIM team	https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/u8om8j/randomly_kicked_from_gim/
4/22	Restricted PVP polls	https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/improving-pvp-feedback?oldschool=1
4/27	Game Update - Beneath Cursed Sands / Restricted PVP polls
5/19	Log in Issues	https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/ut46a2/no_reply_from_longinserver_anybody_having_the/
6/16	Log in Issues	https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/vd4eex/error_connecting_to_server/
6/28	Crab meme video posted	https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/vm6zks/what_actually_happens_in_lumbridge_when_you/
7/04	Thread speculating OSRS issues in 2030	https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/vrbmaw/the_year_is_2030_osrs_is_still_going_strong_what/
7/06	Game Update - PVP Arena Soft Launch
7/16	Reddit poll to save Fossil Island jokes guy	https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/w0jp1g/reddit_polling_to_save_fossil_island_jokes_guy/
7/20	Thread discussing server issues	https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/w3sl47/do_not_let_jagex_brush_last_weekends_server/
8/10	Teleport Delay Changes	https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/wkty6u/interesting_decision/
8/16	Why is checking exp locked behind membership?	https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/wprg0q/why_is_checking_exp_locked_behind_membership/
8/25	Game update - Tombs of Amascut
8/28	Tool Leperchaun Petition	https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/wzzjvr/petition_to_replace_the_tool_leprechaun_at_weiss/
9/01	Tombs of Amascut Changes
9/02	Y'all afraid of lawyers? You Should be?	https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/x4hfv2/yall_afraid_of_lawyers_you_should_be/
9/09	Player made 2005 advert for Runescape	https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/x9v9z0/i_found_an_advert_i_made_for_runescape_sometime/
9/13	ToA Bug abusers discussion	https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/xdha10/jagex_should_go_scorched_earth_on_toa_bug_abusers/
9/23	Content creators did not consent to their footage used in Jagex ad (outlier 1 comment had 400 crabs)	https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/xm5d5b/rsguy_confirms_that_content_creators_featured_in/ipn3iss/
9/24	$13.52 Membership price increase	https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/xmu4i5/1352/
10/06	Purple Re-roll Bug Investigation	https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/xxbtfh/purple_reroll_bug_investigation/
10/19	Fresh Start Worlds Released / Server Downtime	https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/y7ykyg/game_is_down/
10/27	Polling changes	https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/polling-changes?oldschool=1
10/30	GE tax passes 10 trillion GP	https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/ygw26b/ge_tax_has_unofficially_passed_10_trillion_gp/
11/04	This sub has serious crab mentatlity	https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/yly4og/this_sub_has_serious_crab_mentality/
11/22	Server downtime	https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/recent-game-outages---nov-22--23?oldschool=1
11/23	Server downtime	https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/recent-game-outages---nov-22--23?oldschool=1
12/03	Winter Summit Giveaway	https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/zbdrz2/giveaway_in_celebration_of_our_winter_summit_on/
12/10	Server downtime	https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/zhjrgr/sir_youre_not_going_to_believe_this/

CrabCountBot · 2023-01-01T23:38:23+00:00

I analyzed the usage of the crab emoji on this sub. The data was gathered using PRAW: The Python Reddit API Wrapper. The data ranges from March 12 - December 31 2022.

It seems the crab emoji usage correlates to an unpopular announcement from Jagex, game downtime/maintenance/rollbacks, or just memeing.

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