THEM! (1954)

Summary

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We spent 6 seconds downloading 2,054 toots at 2026-02-03 23:56:15 EST from a total of 68 servers. We ended up with a set of 374 unique toots posted between Sun 3 Nov 2024 19:00 EST and Mon 4 Nov 2024 00:34 EST by 14 distinct fediverse accounts.

We tried to connect to 68 different servers, of which 68 (100.0%) succeeded and 0 (0.0%) failed.

The server mastodon.social contributed the most toots with 374 .

‘Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈’ (Lazarou@mastodon.social) tooted the most with 106 toots.

The top 3 boosted toots:

  1. This toot from Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide (Infoseepage@mastodon.social) had 7 boosts.

Movies like Them! portray cops, scientists, the FBI and military all working together to protect civil society. It shows a system that works and is capable of meeting serious threats, so that Joe Public doesn't have to worry about them. The reality? Not so much these days.

  1. This toot from Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 (Lazarou@mastodon.social) had 5 boosts.

@Taweret@octodon.social

  1. This toot from Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide (Infoseepage@mastodon.social) had 5 boosts.

People do in fact steal bulk food commodities, but I'm now wondering whether the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist was actually by a remnant population of Them!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Ca

The top 3 favourited toots:

  1. This toot from your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social) had 19 favourites.

BTW this movie had better acting by a smidgen and the xenophobia references were totally in my ballpark because look at my profile. anyways. this was much fun but now i want some churros covered in tons of sugar.

that makes me a puertoricANT 😜

  1. This toot from Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 (Lazarou@mastodon.social) had 16 favourites.

"We've tampered in God's domain"

Bring it!

  1. This toot from your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social) had 16 favourites.

aaaaaah! the era of no safety belts and leaded gas. no wonder Boomers are like they are.

The top 3 most-replied-to toots:

(Note: this really should exclude people who reply to themselves, it doesn’t do that well, yet)

  1. This toot from Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social) had 5 replies.

Watching tonight but I probably won't be commenting much, not feeling great at all

  1. This toot from Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide (Infoseepage@mastodon.social) had 4 replies.

Movies like Them! portray cops, scientists, the FBI and military all working together to protect civil society. It shows a system that works and is capable of meeting serious threats, so that Joe Public doesn't have to worry about them. The reality? Not so much these days.

  1. This toot from (Bluedepth@mastodon.social) had 3 replies.

how hazardously close are we to having a Bechdel Test pass from 1954?

Activity Graph

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A histogram showing posts per minute on Sunday, 3 Nov 2024. Each bar represents one minute. The event was 94.0 minutes long. There were 340 posts during the event with an average of 3.62 posts per minute.

The busiest moment was at 24:00 from the start with 8 posts in that minute. The quietest moment was at 27:00 from the start with 0 posts in that minute. The yellow line is a 15-minute moving average.

Wordcloud

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The word cloud for Sunday, 3 Nov 2024. Words are larger the more frequently they appeared in posts. There were 1734 unique words posted, and the wordcloud shows the 200 most frequent. The top 10 most frequent words were: ants: 36, ant: 30, giant: 28, them1954: 24, cop: 13, really: 12, actually: 12, doctor: 11, people: 10, old: 10, These words were excluded from the word cloud: movie, movies, film, films, watch, now, one, guy, got, going, good, well, see, know, monsterdondoublefeature, and the hashtag monsterdon.

Analysis of #monsterdon generated at Wed 4 Feb 2026 13:13 EST