#should i tag tmagp? probably not right? i’m not going to just to be safe

[ashironie]

the Usher foundation makes me so irrationally angry

there was an EASY joke there, never mind actual knowledge about America and how things like work

Ohio would not only be an easy joke, but also an easier place to get to. while Ohio isn’t the most centric state in america, it’s close enough to largely populated places (east coast, specifically north east and south east, although it is pretty far from california which also has large population density) but still is pretty centric so everyone use to driving places. also no one who knows anything about america would think “oh where should i go with my weird scary statement, oh i know Washington DC! The place that’s famous, not for historic american monuments and stuff, but for weird creepy ’only in ohio’ things!” (it’s in the goddamn name sims)

DC is in such a place that absolutely no one would just ‘stumble onto it’. DC isn’t a capital because it has a lot of people, it has a lot of people because it’s a capital. hell for a good amount of american history we were just like ‘ah, the capital, a very important thing that everything needs, where the fuck do we put it?’ like dude, watch hamilton sometime. Sure the eye and web would probably push people to going there, but it’s just so random you’d probably find someone going to the institute than the foundation.

i cannot say anything about London and England at large or Beijing and China at large, but i can tell you that DC is such an unintuitive place to put that thing. even before only in ohio jokes, Ohio has the third most hauntings in america (a sorta inaccurate comparison based off of everything in tma but it’s the best real world data i can pull), that comes after Texas, the largest state, and California, the largest extremely populated state. Wyoming has the most hauntings per 100k people, with 13.1, but Ohio still scores pretty high with 4 (second highest is South Dakota with 8.4, so don’t mind the difference too much)

i would also be fine with a less centurial, more populated state, maybe one on boarders for people in other countries just passing by

the eyes (followers) ultimate goal with these is to feed it, so to get as many statements as possible. and that isn’t possible with putting it in DC. While Virginia is the 6th most visited state, Maryland is 26th. with (no surprises) California being first and florida second. Ohio is 12th.

Hell, here’s my top places that i’d recommend putting the Usher Foundation; Ohio, California, or Wyoming. Notice how none of these places are DC or anywhere near it!

(citations: visitation; https://vividmaps.com/most-visited-us-states/amp/ hauntings (pretty basic info, nothing too great); https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurabegleybloom/2020/10/26/10-most-haunted-states-in-america-you-wont-believe-the-scariest/?sh=fce53a4670b4 hauntings (i really like this one it’s the best); https://www.axios.com/2022/10/31/haunted-places-america-screams-ghosts-halloween )

tldr; Putting the Usher Foundation in DC made no sense, petition to put it in Ohio on tmagp should be made (not by me because i’m lazy and have no clue how to make petitions)

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