As my Puerto Rican cousins say, WEPA!!!
This is so beautiful. Nationalist company owned by a bunch of billionaires made tons of money by selling their exploitative game to the leftists. Makes you realize there’s still hope. For the billionaires to get away with raping the planet.
just for fun here are those numbers on a bar chart in a spreadsheet - looks like the graphic is decently honest in its depiction
Wonder how thay scales verse popularion growth
Either way, nice to see it take a fat dump on the racist halftime show
pulling annual US population data from: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/usa/united-states/population
(take this with a grain of salt, the last US census was in 2020, I don’t know how they calculate these numbers)
this is what I put together:
Looks like the growth of half-time show audience is faster than population growth.
EDIT: this is the third time I have recreated this damn spreadsheet, lol
you da bomb
What’s the r squared on that trend line?
I don’t know, I deleted the spreadsheet - I don’t know if it helps but it said the trend line was “linear” (unfortunately I don’t know enough about this kind of stuff, I don’t really understand r-squared or what it means)
r-squared is the measure of how well a set of data can be represented by a linear trend line. The values range from 0 to 1, and the closer to 1, the more likely that the data is linear. It’s not perfect, and often there’s more to look at to decide on linearity, but it’s a pretty cool metric.
wow, thanks for that explanation!
Just for you, I recreated the spreadsheet and added the r2, which turns out to be 0.896:
Y’all are both awesome. One of my regrets in life is I didn’t spend more time studying statistics.
Curious how those viewing numbers are tallied nowadays, given over-the-air, cable, DVR boxes, streaming, digital DVRs, overseas, etc.
They track our phones and get a count of how many phones are near a TV or streaming service with it on.
Boy, those racists sure were right. Clearly nobody wants to see Bad Bunny at the half-time show.
He speaks in funny scary language and is unmureican.
This halftime has been great for the amount of self reporting of people who don’t know Puerto Ricans are Americans. 🙃
I heard they pay taxes and still can’t vote. I wonder if they truly have taxation with no representation, while rednecks still complain about the show.
My pilates instructor argued with me for a good ten minutes. She was convinced PR was a different country.
Me: It’s just like the US Virgin Islands
Her: Well that makes sense, they are the US Virgin Islands
Me: So if Puerto Rico renamed to “US Puerto Rico”, only then would they be part of the US?!?
Wow. Just…wow.
EDIT: I was wrong. USVI residents are US citizens but USVI Nationals (whatever that means). Puerto Ricans are US citizens AND US Nationals.
I just wish they all gained statehood already.
I’d like to start with people from Guam getting citizenship.
Insane that’s not true already. 😒
Ohhhh so that’s why people were playing football at the bad bunny concert lol.
I feel like these numbers only mean something if you weight them by the superbowl viewership.
Its not like 120 million people are turning on the tv just for the halftime show. Looking up online, it does seem like several million extra people do tune in for the halftime show, but also the numbers track pretty closely to the superbowl views - https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/super-bowl-2026-watched-seahawks-patriots-viewership/b0c14c1c15663b99ffd35db9
I might be wrong, but doesn’t every increase since the big Rihanna spike* in 2023 correspond with overall population increase or less?
Either way, the main point that the fascists were laughably wrong about nobody tuning in of course very much stands 😁
*I was in a band called Big Rihanna Spike. We mostly played Rage Against the Machine covers and punk songs about Bahamian cuisine.
The viewership growth between 2023 and 2026 is 11.9%. What population grew more than 11.9% in 3 years?
…punk songs about Bahamian cuisine.
You’ve piqued my interest.
When I literally only recognize Snoop.
I managed to spot Lewis Hamilton and Rihana too xD
Not even Usher? Really? How?
Maybe they have the music taste as me? I could identify Joakim Broden, Hulkoff, or Danheim but show me any American artist since the early 00s and I don’t know jack.
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When was the last time republicans didn’t complain about the Halftime show. Fucking seriously
Wait, that’s 38% of the US population. That’s actually way less than I would have expected with how much it’s hyped online.
That actually seems really high to me.
I mean getting more than a 3rd of the population to watch anything at the same time is pretty much impossible at this point. The Superbowl in the US is the closest thing to a unifying cultural moment but the monoculture still continues to fade.
The most shared cultural event in the US is sitting on a couch, eating junk food and watching ads for 4 hours.
I didn’t say it was good lol
Thinking that’s low is insane. What other thing can you get more than 1/3 of the nation to participate in? Personally, I didn’t watch it, and I never do. From my perspective, 1/3 seems high, not low.
The soccer euro- and worldcups often draw like 50% in many countries.
It typically costs to watch it. I saw it live from Nashville’s local Hispanic channel though, only by chance did I see it, and thought it would go off right when the game started. I still have no idea how they got the Super Bowl for free.
I wonder if that counts those of us who watched it after the fact on the official YouTube posting?
The Weeknd’s performance was so damn good 🥲
