>>91022055>>91022055>192,212 commentsWe should put these numbers into perspective.
Shakespeare wrote 37 plays. His shortest play was Comedy of Errors with 14,701 words. This article has 192,212 comments. This means that you need 13.0748 or roughly 13 Comedies of Errors to have as many words as there are comments. On average, a play of shakespeare has 22,595 words, which means that you need roughly 8.5 plays of Shakespeare to have as many words as comments under this article. And we are only talking about comments, not about the words written in these comments.
Buckle up your seats, as this will be a wild ride:
On my screen, each comment has on average 4.80952 lines (roughly 5). A line of a comment contains 16.2 words (roughly 16). This leaves us at 77.9142 words per comment on average. This article has (please kill me) 192.212 comments. This means that there are 14,992,536 words in every comment.
14,992,536
All of Shakespeares plays contain 835,997 words.
Let that sink in for a moment and try to not kill yourself
All of the comments contain more than 17 times the words Shakespeare wrote in his plays. You could write 490 Hamlets with these words and would still have some leftovers. You could write 1019 Comedy of Errors, or 157 Hobbits. The 7 main Harry Potter Books had 1,084,170 words, we could write them more than 13 times. Or 33 LotR triologies.
An average proffesional typer manages to type 50-80 words per minute. In order to type in every word commented there, one would need 208.23 days while typing at 50wpm.
As a conclusion, I would ask you to end my miserable life now, because I have actually spent a hour calculating this stuff and I have seen the numbers and lost every little bit of faith in humanity left in my body.
