It's no secret or surprise to anyone that petitions and campaigns see a big drop off after the first day, but I'm honestly encouraged by day 2's performance. When we hit 3,000 in the first 24 hours, I said to Mr. Nomadscout that I expected us to get 500 signatures over the next 24 hours. We got 800. It soundly beat my expectations.
But now is the time that we really need to lean on YOU. Bantha Skull and the fan sites have likely reached every single person they can reach at this point. More on that in a moment, but now it's up to YOU to keep spreading the message. The key to success going forward is getting the petition in front of as many eyeballs as possible. This petition is obviously in English, so it should naturally do better in English speaking countries, but I can tell you that Canada, Australia and New Zealand are all underperforming. Any help spreading the word in those areas would be much appreciated.
For anyone else, please try to get any of the influencers you follow on social media to publish the petition. This can include anyone form celebrities with a strong "nerd" following to other collectible outlets and even your local comic/specialty shop. Again, more eyeballs is the key. We have to keep this in front of people as much as possible.
We're going to keep beating this drum, but it's the classic case of "preaching to the choir". Our readers who are willing to sign the petition likely already have. Sadly we know that these types of petitions get around a 10% participation rate. If we could even get the participation rate to 50%, we will have "rocked the world". So for those of you reading this who are just adverse to getting involved, I get it, but please reconsider just this one time, and more good things will follow.