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The ten nearest neighbors in Megan Rapinoe's similarity graph are comedians, websites, and an academic — not other athletes. Similarity here measures how closely two entities' audiences resemble each other in composition; a score near 0.97 indicates near-identical audience shape, regardless of what the entities actually are.
The top 10 form a tight band between 0.9584 and 0.9682, with no single dominant neighbor — the defining characteristic of a flat shape. Neil deGrasse Tyson and The Ringer share the top position at 0.9682, followed by Jon Stewart at 0.9656 and John Oliver at 0.9647. Websites make up four of the ten slots — The Ringer, Merriam-Webster, PolitiFact, and The Onion — while comedians account for three: Stewart, Oliver, and Sarah Beattie at 0.9584. Last Week Tonight (TV Shows, 0.9631) and Dan Levy (Actors, 0.9610) round out the set. No other athlete appears in the top 10.
The cluster points to an audience shaped by politically engaged, media-literate consumption — fact-checking sites, satirical outlets, and late-night commentary — rather than by sport.
