And that’s just the people that watched in on “dry land.”
You won’t see my 3 watch throughs in that statistic.
I watched it once. Got sent to a few weed and porn sites, but that’s alright. It was decent, pretty entertaining.
I may or may not have obtained that episode plus the previous 26 seasons last week. It’s crazy how many memes and characters and well known quotes were from right out of the gate in the first season way back in 1997.
If you’re using Plex you might
Interesting! Good thing I’m not!
Still #1 torrent popularity for 6 days going now.
I pirated it, add one more to the count
I mean I watched it on my pirated system so I assume they don’t count that, and I am sure im not the only one.
I can’t believe the white house wasted valuable government time to respond to this episode.
valuable government time
There is nothing of value to America being done in the White House
Pretty good numbers for an irrelevant, fourth-rate show
I hate the body shaming that infused this episode and it reminded me why i hate south park.
the body shaming is because trump in fact body shames people on the basis. Don’t dish it out if you can’t take it out. etc
“I didnt sexually assault that woman! shes too ugly (she’s not my type)”–trump
the bad thing is paramount is now merged with skydance, the owner is a trumper, its helping a pro-trumper more than humiliating him.
Not sure that’s entirely true… It’s definitely something to be cognizant of, but empowering your base and shitting on Nazis is well worth the price of admission, here.
Plus, a LOT more people saw it than 6 million. I’m betting that number is going to be in the billions, especially so since Trump is shitting his pants even more over it, a la Streisand Effect.
Trump is a serial child rapist and all over the Epstein files.
Billions might be a wee bit optimistic :'D
Not optimistic. I know it’s a big jump in numbers from what conservative legacy media put out, but bear with me.
American politics are a spectacle because of stuff like this. Eventually, a really good portion of the internet connected population of the world is going to hear about this and are going to be curious. Like maybe 10-50%. And if Trump actually sues for a cartoon saying he has a tiny penis but airing a real life AI video of him naked in the desert and “showing” it, that number is going to go up and possibly break out of online media.
6 million people watched it upon initial airing on cable on that timeslot. The population of the usa is like 340 million. If you halve that for age and demographics, that’s still like 170 million people in the usa alone.
Now, I’d be willing to bet that in the usa, the number who have already seen the clip is closer to 170M than it is 6M, and is only going higher. Start including Canada, Mexico, parts of Europe, Japan, NZ, and anybody else that remotely pays attention to the most ridiculous parts of US politics, and the pool of possible people has grown far beyond the 340M population of the USA and that initial 6M estimate put out by legacy media, who undoubtedly and demonstrably has a conflict of interest and is conservative owned.
The only real way to remotely know would be to start doing surveys, but that would absolutely affect the number. “Do you know about the South Park episode clip where they say he has a teeny tiny penis and aired a clip using AI that showed him wandering through the desert naked and even showed his penis and that now Donald Trump wants to sue them for defamation?” 😂😂😂😂
If they didn’t know, imagine their reaction and immediate curiosity. It’s ridiculous.
Anyway, I do think that eventually, especially if Trump actually sues them, that the exposure numbers, either through watching the clip or meme form, could get over a billion. Because remember, the population of the world right now is like 8 to 8.2Billion people, and a good portion of that is internet connected. You can extrapolate from there.
Optimistic would be “everyone internet connected will hear about this”. And while maybe that would be eventually possible if no scandals ever again happen and everybody suddenly had no other problems and cared about us politics, but that just can’t be the case and isn’t reality. But it’s also extreme to underestimate how fast these things move and how easily people see and show each other them and search them out. The MSNBC YouTube video covering it alone already has like 4 million views.
The media companies have been run by right wing shit brains since forever. In the past, they generally let the writers do whatever they want as long as the money keeps flowing.
That may be changing. Not clear yet.
Made me want to get paramount+ TBH
Well, Trey and Matt got their money, Paramount is clearly working against Americans so there’s no guilt of going to high seas, in fact actually feels like the right thing to do.
And it isn’t really hard to find the episode.
