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On the Type of Person Who Writes Yelp Reviews
from #266 - Lightfoot Strikes Twice | The Tim Dillon Show · #266
3 min
Tim goes on a tangent about people who obsessively write Yelp reviews, arguing no one does it to genuinely help strangers but rather to shame and punish businesses, drawing on his own experience as a tour guide getting reviewed on Trip Advisor.
- Tim describes Yelp reviewers as people who think warning others about calamari or minestrone soup is virtuous work.
- He performed at a comedy show for elite Yelpers — the worst audience imaginable, judgmental people examining glassware.
- Criticism has a legitimate history in theater and film, but being a Yelper isn't a real job.
- Nobody writes Yelp reviews to help strangers; that's a lie Yelpers tell themselves.
- The actual motivation is to shame and punish, because reviewers know companies read these posts.
- The idea that Lori Lightfoot is a Yelper is beautiful.
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