The Data Say Mormon Stories Loves NEGATIVITY

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]is John like mostly making negative like anti content or is he kind of like building stuff up, okay? Because you have some people who think that he's trying to like just be positive and build.

[00:00:09]>> Uh-huh.

[00:00:10]>> And you have others who think no, he's just trying to tear down. No, he's a down warmer.

[00:00:13]>> I put this hypothesis to the test.

[00:00:16]>> Oh, did you?

[00:00:16]>> I did this? There's a method called what's what's called sentiment analysis.

[00:00:21]I think this ended up being over a thousand plus different samples of conversation in his videos.

[00:00:29]70% of those, 68% of those >> Just tearing things down. are negative. Just tearing things down. The these models it's never going to tell you it's 100% positive, not likely.

[00:00:39]>> Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:00:40]70% is pretty big deal here. Yeah, that's [laughter] really high. Like that means like 70% of the time in his like conversations, the the sentiment is negative. Wow.

[00:00:51]>> So like I broke these into different chunks.

[00:00:53]Yeah, I'm surprised it's I'm surprised it's not higher.