So I'm guessing a competing company bought a bunch of bad reviews at the same time. But how did the second person put it in a graph? Is he really that passionate about protecting Yankee Candle from slander, or are those review reliability things more advanced than I thought...?

[–] [email protected] 143 points 8 months ago

I’m thinking these folks had covid

[–] snapoff 76 points 8 months ago (2 children)

This was during the omicron surge I believe

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Ah, I didn't look at the dates very closely, thanks for clarifying. I didn't lose my smell after having covid, but I know others did, and I'd honestly forgotten about that symptom until you mentioned it. (Edit: it was actually @[email protected] who mentioned that. Sorry. It's been a long day ...

[–] snapoff 3 points 8 months ago

No worries man, I had just seen it before and recognized the context. I didn’t lose my sense of smell when I had covid either, but everything tasted awful. And idk if it’s related but now I get whiffs of random smells that are unlikely to be present and other people say they don’t smell, like gravel and metal. So weird.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

No that's the two first outbreaks, it's covid 1st edition

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

So weird that they considered Covid Elf a class back then..

[–] snapoff 2 points 8 months ago

It’s all a blur in my head. I thought we were well into omicron territory by late 2021.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago

My guess is this is a covid spike after a holiday where many candles were purchased/gifted.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Or maybe they had a bad batch or ran out of a particular ingredient and everyone eventually got those batches they thought they could pass off 🤷🏻‍♀️

[–] snapoff 13 points 8 months ago

I think it’s so funny to imagine the boardroom Yankee Candle version of Mr Burns deciding to offload a bunch of crummy product during a covid surge. Ingenious

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Or maybe Yankee candles have a baseline error rate in their manufacturing, insufficient QA, and are more commonly purchased over the holidays. The charts show absolute number of reviews and only during the post-covid period. To be semi-meaningful it should show the "no smell" reviews as a percentage of all reviews and include pre-covid years as a comparison.