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Rate the Aura of Public Figures

Rate the Aura of Public Figures

by marcomezzavilla·Feb 26, 2026·1 point·0 comments
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AI Analysis

○Pass

Viral novelty with zero depth—Colossal is a better-designed celeb ranking, and Twitter/TikTok already vote.

Strengths
  • •Cute UI and low friction entry (no account required for voting)
  • •Genuine social artifact from a real person's boredom at a music festival
Weaknesses
  • •No substance: a guestbook for celebrity opinions adds nothing new over Reddit/Twitter/TikTok voting mechanisms
  • •Zero differentiation—pure novelty utility with no technical insight, data value, or staying power
Category
Social
Target Audience

Entertainment-focused internet users, culture watchers, people amused by subjective celebrity rankings.

Similar To

Colossal · Hot or Not · Reddit ranking threads

Post Description

A small social experiment.

You can give a positive or negative “aura” vote to public figures (living only).

The idea came from watching people obsess over rankings during a big music festival here in Italy. Since I wasn’t that interested in the show itself, I spent a few evenings building this instead.

Curious to see what the internet thinks.

(Hope I don’t get sued)

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