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The hottest tea, the spiciest gossip, the fiercest commentary and no fucking censorship. We are the Los Santos VIXEN. Hope you've been doing your kegels, babe. Letter from the editor: Sis, stop reading the story and BE the story. Submit your gossip to our handy and under-fucking-utilized gossip submission form. Chop chop. Also Like, Subscribe, Share, is this your first time online? Click HERE ! LSVIXEN XOXO ❤️ Survey Says: Can Popularity be Bought? A Face Browser Deep Dive (FaceBrowser Logo courtesy of FaceBrowser.com) We've all got our vices. Some of us adore a few too many dirty martinis, others enjoy a little ciggy every now and then, dark chocolate sneakily snacked on in office corners, binge-eating ice-cream while binge-watching Netflix, thrill-seeking ad nauseum.... everyone, and I mean, everyone has their vices. But seldom do any of these vices hold our attention for over hours and hours a day and this is where the vice of social media consumption takes center stage. FaceBrowser is arguably the most popular social media website in Los Santos and for all of the complaints and dismissals it may receive in the the booths of holier-than-thou coffee shops, it is still a pilgrimage site for popular public figures to maintain at least the illusion of accessibility and for users to increase their public profile via the platform. As someone who works in Public Relations, I can say with some authority that as blasé as we may wish to be about our oft problematic fave, FaceBrowser, it still holds a significant market share on the attention of Los Santans and is therefore a super-duper important tool for up-and-coming models, business owners, and politicians. This means it's really important to examine it with some hard hitting questions. FaceBrowser, like Twitter before it, has a Blue Check Verification system which in theory denotes users as holding meaningful significance to the general public or a notable public recognizability and awareness. But, even more like Twitter, this verification can be purchased by users albeit at a fairly exclusive price tag. This whole arrangement made us here at the Los Santos Vixen curious. Who is behind it? How effective is the verification system? Does it come with real benefits to popularity or algorithmic prioritization? Who is getting liked the most? Let's knock some of these questions out. Using SCIENCE! First things first, who is behind FaceBrowser? How is verification determined? (An artists depiction of Face Browser Corporate Meetups) Easy answer, shitty answer. Nobody really knows, babes. Literally the worst thing for a journalist to find is a shroud over information, but even an absence of information can give us some insight. I'll basically try to look at this from the angles of both the Pros and Cons of this arrangement and maybe we can land somewhere in the middle. So first off, "Pros". whomever at FaceBrowser Corporate are responsible for the filtration of content which can include content deletion and they are also responsible in some capacity in the verification process. Thus one perspective in looking at this lack of transparency as to their corporate identities is that it is important in maintaining their safety from disgruntled users who disagree with their judgements or sus users who may try to bribe or sway them unduly in their decision-making. I totally get the above and especially when there are users who actively attack other users both online and in person, the safety of the Corporate employees is incredibly important and should be heavily factored in here. On the other hand, the "Cons". Because FaceBrowser Corporate ensures their security, we are unable to ascertain how many there are and how diverse they are. When verification systems rely on individuals judging the significance and meaning of users contributions to society and their popularity, if FaceBrowser Corporate leans more in... let's say, Rockford Hills residencies, it might not hold the most objective reads on someone with sweeping popularity in East Los Santos. Similarly, if FaceBrowser Corporate is predominantly from the City might be less likely to verify users popular in Blaine County. Any potential political, racial, or less overt biases then can't be ascertained or examined by the general public and if they exist they can't be pressured to correct them. If you're like me, you're landing on a big question mark instead of a middle ground here. I think I'm going to ahead and call it morally grey and leave formal judgements to my adoring readers. But what's the big deal? Does Verification matter that much? Let's get to questions we can actually answer. Does Verification Matter? It's Data Time, NERDS! 💻 Because FaceBrowser lacks some amount of transparency on this question, the Los Santos Vixen decided to not send emails and wait for boring corporate responses designed to cover corporate asses. The Los Santos Vixen decided to get nerdy. A survey conducted by my consulting agency, VIX Life Coaching & Public Relations, recruited 30 study participants, 19 females and 10 males, which is a decently representative sample size. Their ages ranged from 19 to 43 years of age and 96.7 percent of participants were active Face Browser Users. As you'll see below they weren't tricked by the fake names thrown into the mix which tells us they were honest in their assessments of whether they recognized certain users over others. The profiles picked were based on FaceBrowser's search feature and which users come up when you search A, B, C, and D. down the line. It included a mix of Verified Users which are highlighted in yellow and Non-Verified users who aren't highlighted at all. This means we also get some insight into how FaceBrowser prioritizes profiles in their on-site search engine. (Wow. This is a chart. Fab, love that for me.) Long story short, Verified Users only had a 9.61 % boost to Recognizability by the average user. Ten percent can go a long way, but when we look at profiles above 60% percent Recognizability (as in over sixty percent of users reporting the name of the user as familiar to them), we can see it's split even! It's five Non-Verified Users to five Verified Users. The data also shows that of the profiles of the tippy-top recognizable users are Non-Verified with Prestige Supermodel and Sandal-Lawsuit Endurer, Giorgia Polchi, sharing the top spot with the infamous street-fighter character and gossip blogger NoKizzyLizzy of the Babe Room. What's the lesson we can learn here? While the Verified users trended upwards by about ten percent in recognizability... to attain true recognizabe status you must either endure a large scale lawsuit with a major fashion brand after a starry career in prestigious modeling or you must run a blog and engage in overly public fist fights with every single human who makes you slightly mad on the internet. I don't make the rules here, babes, I'm just going by the science. Who gets the most likes though? Gimme RANKINGS! 🔥 For this final bit of juicy juicy info on the inner workings of FaceBrowser, the Los Santos Vixen partnered with another data nerd working for, the Los Santos Car Marketplace, a soon to be released Car Marketplace, for some answers. Yes, it's odd that we found a data scientist at a car marketplace, but just mentally write it off in the same weirdness range as the Michelin Tire Company successfully rating restaurants and becoming super-duper prestigious enough to grant Michelin Stars that hold value. Our source compiled the lifetime Like statistics since the platform began and ranked the Top Ten Most Liked Pictures. Needless to say, we can sum up the entirety of these by saying "pretty girl make you click button." Let's focus on our mission however. Only two of the top ten liked pics are by Verified users. One is the CEO of Prestige, Ashley Hendricks, and the second is Raen DeJaeger the head of Prestige's subsidiary and an independently-operated photography studio, We Studios. The user with the most amount of likes, Heaven, is Non-Verified and affiliated with Diversify Magazine which as an organization also snags two spots on the top ten list. (Face Browser's AI interpretation of common human behaviors) All in All Woosh, that was a lot of info. This is definitely a blog post for the nerdier or more terminally online among us, but I must cater to all sorts of audiences, darlings. What have we tangibly learned here? FaceBrowser as an entity and corporate actor is shrouded in mystery and that has distinct pros and cons. Verification may boost public recognizability by almost 10 percent, which isn't bad, but questionable as to whether it's worth the purchase. Top Users in the various categories are Non-Verified and seemingly overwhelmingly recognized based on either having careers in the public eye, publicized scandals, or content that could be considered sexualized. Am I saying that any of this is bad? Am I passing moral judgements? Fuck no. I day drink throughout State Senate sessions and am literally a professional Drama Hag. I have zero say in whether any of this is good or bad. My whole gig here is to run like a little cute doggy to information and nestle it in my jaws and waggle my tail back to you fuckers and let you internalize and judge the info for yourselves. Woof woof. Gimme a treat. Vixen Out. XOXO, DISCLAIMER >Comments are enabled!