The Bat People (1974)
Summary

We looked at 2903 toots posted between Sun 27 Apr 2025 20:00 EDT and Sun 27 Apr 2025 23:32 EDT by 128 different participants across 64 different servers. mastodon.social contributed the most toots with 463 .
Most toots were from ‘Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈’ (Lazarou@mastodon.social) who posted 121 .
The top 3 boosted toots:
- This toot from Sordid Amok! (SordidAmok@mastodon.social) had 13 boosts.
Virginia is the only state that has an Official State Bat. I brag about this at every opportunity.
#monsterdon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_big-eared_bat
In about 45 minutes, at 9 EDT, I and many many other fedizens will be doing #monsterdon
If you'd rather not see hundreds of off-topic posts mocking a bad movie, you can:
* Mute the #monsterdon hashtag (in the Mastodon web UI this is under Preferences -> Filters -> Add new filter)
* Mute me for a couple hours (in masto, it's under three dots -> mute)
+ Come join us, in which case it will no longer be off topic. See the #MonsterdonAlert hashtag for detailsThis week: The Bat People (1974)
I am very glad to hear that Batman went woke a full 50 years ago, I don't expect this schlock low budget horror film from the 70s to be at all sexist or racist or anything, nope, it's gonna be just fine I bet
- This toot from Cactuar Joe (CactuarJoe@retro.pizza) had 10 boosts.
You got about fifteen minutes left until #Monsterdon takes over your feed with THE BAT PEOPLE (1974). Set up a filter or cue up the movie and get ready to watch along!
Or do something else. Go fishing or something. Climb a tree, punch a clown, it's a big world out there.
The top 3 favourited toots:
<two women pass centimeters away without speaking> Expertly dodging the Bechdel test
- This toot from OldRustBucket (OldRustBucket@techhub.social) had 19 favourites.
Important thing is will there be....... BAT Boy!!! #Monsterdon
- This toot from Solarbird :flag_cascadia: (moira@mastodon.murkworks.net) had 17 favourites.
well now we know where bat boy came from
The top 3 most-replied-to toots:
(Note: this really should exclude people who reply to themselves, it doesn’t do that well, yet)
- This toot from So many dynamos (Zerofactorial@noc.social) had 39 replies.
Launching The Bat People for #monsterdon now!
Not sure what to expect from this movie, but here we go, I guess.
#monsterdon Bats kinda have ugly faces, though.
Activity Graph

A histogram showing posts per minute on Sunday, 27 Apr 2025. Each bar represents one minute. The event was 92.5 minutes long. There were 2597 posts during the event with an average of 28.06 posts per minute. The busiest moment was at 9:00 from the start with 43 posts in that minute. The quietest moment was at 29:00 from the start with 15 posts in that minute. The yellow line is a 15-minute moving average.
Wordcloud

The word cloud for Sunday, 27 Apr 2025. Words are larger the more frequently they appeared in posts. There were 7252 unique words posted, and the wordcloud shows the 200 most frequent. Top 10 most frequent words were: thebatpeople: 592, bat: 522, 🧑🤝🧑: 213, bats: 183, people: 137, johnny: 100, one: 98, now: 96, going: 90, think: 89, These words were excluded from the word cloud: movie, movies, film, films, watch, thebatpeople1974, batpeople, and the hashtag monsterdon.
Analysis details
Analysis of #monsterdon generated at Wed 15 Oct 2025 23:05 EDT
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