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Think about how many people you know on your life that are gamers. Then also think about the gamers that are in the know about shit like this. It'll be pretty slim unless you're terminally online.
All my gamer friends know about this, because I told them. I've told them and I know at least 3 of them that signed.
Those thresholds are irrelevant because they've been crossed in seven countries already, the important bit is getting another 560k votes from anywhere (in the EU).
The actual hurdle is those 1m votes, any initiative that is not completely lopsided will take the per-country hurdles with ease, as you can tell by this initiative having achieved that while not yet having half of the votes it needs. In fact taking all the thresholds together you wouldn't reach 1m votes but ~0.5m, that is by design.
That's not to say that it'd be a bad idea to do pushes in certain countries, particularly large ones which are less hooked into English media than the usual suspects. By population: France, Italy, Spain, Romania, Belgium is covered by Netherlands+France, Czechia, Portugal, Greece, that's all >=10m member states lagging behind. No point in going after Sweden or the Netherlands people there are already in the loop, and Poland seems to have rallied itself.
Another one to sign while you're at it:
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home
Signed
seven countries and one million total votes. it's not even close on the second one, needs like 550k more.
Sure, but look at what's going on in Lithuania. They can't get 2k people to sign the petition? Wth? Are there no Lithuanian gamers?
Because every EU country has its own media and public discourse spaces, and no European Initiative ever manages to get attention in all member states. They usually focus on those member states where they have contacts and multipliers who can spread it
I wonder if it's a language issue? Lithuanian is only really spoken in Lithuania, which is quite a small country, and most Lithuanians also don't speak another EU language (the most common second language by a wide margin is Russian). It might be that nobody has made a successful effort to publicise the campaign in a language that most Lithuanians know. The disclaimer here is that I don't speak Lithuanian and cannot check
Lithuanian here who signed the petition like a year or so ago.
There's a decent chunk of Lithuanian gamers, but social medias and spaces that they inhabit are primarily in Lithuanian language such as Facebook, Lithuanian gaming groups on Discord/TikTok and things like that. Rarely there are some odd Lithuanians like me who venture out to the English speaking web to sites such as Reddit, but there's no guarantee the initiative will be found or if the person will care enough to sign it.
Granted, take what I say with a spoonful of salt as I don't actively seek out or look for Lithuanian digital spaces at all, this is based on my experience with friends and acquaintances.
If you could share the initiative in the lithuanian spaces, that'd be great. Here it is in Lithuanian
that's a small town
Luxembourg is kind of a small town tho ๐คฃ
Okay, I'll see myself out ๐ฌ
too few gamers that care or know about this.
Or have fallen for misinfo about it
Pirate Software - that cunt
Honestly. Is it also that hard to believe that there might also be people out there who just don't agree with this whole initiative?
I cannot fathom why someone wouldnt agree with it. Unless you are a publisher.
For Luxembourg almost 80% are missing. Let's try to motivate bigger countries that are close to the threshold.
Looking at you France and Spain, just a little more! Belgium, you are doing great, just a 1000 more please.
My good Sir do you know what is Malta?
Apparently an island of useless chuds who can't sign a petition.
And they ruined my friend's stomach! He could eat a lot before his vacation there.
That's a common issue with italian people travelling there since "malta" is a somewhat edible construction material.
How does it work? Does every country need to pass the threshold? Only a certain amount of countries?
7 countries and 1 million total signatures
Thank you!