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I'm really glad you asked for my argument, actually. What I'm noticing is very interesting psychological manipulation, I'm really curious as to which house created this. The sociological implications of this are very intriguing if you've been paying attention to the saga for the last two years. Essentially, there has been mobility in tier and rank within tier for a few houses, notably KD, Aephi, Pi Phi, and AZD. After the incident in which a member of KD used a repulsive racial slur against a man on a dating platform and the rest of the house not only defended it but alleged that the member's phone had been "hacked" despite evidence pointing otherwise, their rank dropped to the lowest tier. It is interesting to see how they have been added to the lowest middle tier, with a tactic of not ranking the houses within the tier, as to potentially imply their rank be at the top of that tier. Aephi, on the other hand, rushed a very successful PC Spring of 2019. They have been invited by the likes of Lambda, Chi Phi, and FIJI by a significantly higher margin. This highly upsets houses threatened by their success, especially when they have appeared very closely below the upper-mid in successful posts earlier this year, so it makes logical sense that the creator of this post, who is likely in KD or pi phi, would equalize the lower middle and undermine Aephi. More notably, however, is the unflagging feud between pi phi and azd, which while once appeared transitory, has now become everlasting. After azd rushed a fairly successful and conventionally attractive PC for a second spring in a row, many men on began to comment on their appearance more, fraternities such as chi phi and those in their tier began to mix with them fairly frequently and spend less time at lower ranked fraternities. Posts placing azd at or above pi phi began to emerge. Similarly, posts noting that pi phi, who historically rushes engineers and athletes, had lower mixer attendance, began to emerge. Creating a tier in which all the houses are equalized, and in which azd is placed, enables two possibilities: it implies that azd could be right below pi phi, at the top of the lower middle, and essentially grants pi phi their "spot" back after the switch in the spring, but what it also does is allows for viewers to interpret azd's ranking as even lower in the lower middle, thus decreasing their ability to compete with pi phi. It's actually quite profound the way in which this ranking manipulates the situation to favor certain houses and undermine others's success, especially after the surge of posts imitating azd and placing them in the core four about 15 minutes ago. It creates a mechanism sort of like a Na/K pump in which azd increases in rank too dramatically and creates a peak in viewers, then drops to balance out the system, but each time it drops a little lower, escaping the viewer's purview and sliding into a lower rank each time.