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Ben Folds

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Actors, comedians, and websites dominate Ben Folds' nearest audience neighbors — with The Black Keys (0.89) the only other musician in the top 10.

The shape is flat: scores run from 0.92 down to 0.88 with no single standout pulling away from the pack. Nick Offerman sits at the top (0.92), followed by Mental Floss (0.91), Dan Levy (0.91), and Zach Braff (0.91). Subcategory tallies across the top 10 show five actors — Offerman, Levy, Braff, Glenn Howerton, and Ed Helms — alongside two comedians (Sarah Beattie at 0.89 and Matt Bellassai at 0.89), one TV personality (Ken Jennings at 0.91), one website (Mental Floss), and one fellow musician (The Black Keys). That's a cross-kind cluster: Ben Folds' audience shape looks far more like the audiences of actors and comedians than like those of other musicians. The two websites in the top 10 — Mental Floss and, at position eight, AP Oddities — reinforce a pattern of curiosity-oriented, media-literate neighbors rather than a music-centric one.

The top 10 collectively describe an audience whose shape is defined by a specific strain of actor and comedian — not by genre peers.

Nearest neighbors by audience shape

Cosine similarity over Persona Live audience composition.
"Entities whose overall audience profile most closely matches this one — people who follow one tend to follow the other."

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