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That's the way it always is. People getting good effects that they expected don't really post about it. The ones you see most commonly see are the extremes. This is why 99% of brands compensate (bribe) customers for reviews. Organic feedback just doesn't really happen that much. I'd estimate less than 1% of customers organically review their products. It really is that low. The products you see thousands of reviews on are almost exclusively paid-for reviews. Every single brand at the top of Amazon does it. Many are fake reviews. However, the more common tactic is just giving free product away for reviews. Literally every brand out there does it, except for us. This is why you see a disconnect with our products and others. We don't pay people to review our products.

The other bias you have to account for here is the Reddit effect. Redditors are a unique type of person. I think everyone subconsciously knows that, but it is very apparent when you see the big picture in the background. Redditors like to be contrarian, and are very susceptible to being misled and drawn into conspiracies by other Redditors. The average customer isn't making the brands they buy from, or don't buy from, part of their identity. However, many Redditors do. They get pulled into camps, and let that bias affect how they perceive or report their responses to things. I think it is pretty clear we have a large group of people who really support us. Some of them are very enthusiastic about that support. However, we have a large group of people on the other side of the coin, too. They have made hating us part of their identity, and they try to bring other people into that same camp. I look into the posting histories of many of the people making critical posts, and there is a clear pattern to who they are interacting with, and where. Some of them are legitimately insane, and they spread that insanity like a virus. They spread false conspiracies about us, and do everything in their power to make people hate us. We definitely have people that are overly-enthusiastic about us, too. However, that's never at our direction or encouragement. It just organically happens. The people who hate us use that to fuel their conspiracies more, though. There is for sure an organized and concerted effort to stir the pot against us, and maintain a negative narrative, but there is no organized effort to do the opposite. As much as the detractors want to convince everyone we do, we don't shill or even attempt to encourage positive reports. I stay so above board, it's crazy. This affects the tone of discourse surrounding us, because I allow these conspiracy nutbags to continue with their craziness, and I literally don't do anything to try to tip the scales in a positive direction. Maybe I should. Every other brand does.

Anyway, it really does affect the tone of discourse on here. Reddit is a great place for real people to interact with each other, but there is a whole set of biases and weirdness that you have to deal with that you don't elsewhere. It's why I am generally happier mentally when I stay off Reddit these days. There are some crazy unstable fucks on here, and their negativity tends to spread like a disease. It's genuinely mentally exhausting being pulled down their insane rabbit holes. Seriously... regular threats against my life and safety. It's just ridiculous. You also see different effects reported here than you do with average customers not on Reddit. If you exclusively used Reddit as a gauge, you'd go insane trying to do anything positive. The reality of the whole situation is very different. It took me a while to realize that, because I was on here so much. As we have grown, and Reddit has become less and less of a percentage of our customer base, that level of bias on here has become more apparent. For those that don't get to see the whole picture that we do, you might think that reishi and lion's mane are chemically castrating dudes everywhere, and that I run a shadow cabal of Illuminati silencing our competitors, and playing everyone like marionettes... Sometimes you need to go talk to people out in the real world to make you realize how insane it can get on here at times.

Regarding specific products, it's really across the board. I would just hope people would openly and honestly report their effects with whatever they are seeing results from, or let us know if they are having weird side effects. The more honest info we get, the easier it is for us to understand and formulate better products in the future.