Who's More FamousBirthdays.com?
As a fan of the Who? Weekly podcast, I thought it'd be fun to make an online version of the game "Who's More FamousBirthdays.com?"But describing the game to someone who isn't familiar with the website has been challenging—hopefully wikipedia can help explain:
Famous Birthdays is an American website [...] which is dedicated to cataloging the birthdays of famous people and compiling other facts about them.Essentially your goal is to predict who famousbirthdays.com thinks is the most famous rather than who is actually the most famous. TikTok/Youtube/Instagram influencers tend to do the best in the rankings (I added a setting to exclude them to make the game a little easier/less unhinged).Code available here, thanks to Who? Weekly for the entertainment and for creating this deeply stupid game.
Each page has a "boost" button—each visitor who clicks this button will "boost" the biography higher up into the "trending" or "most popular" rankings. Online celebrities may canvass their followers into swaying them higher into the rankings by encouraging them to press the "boost" button.