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[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 169 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

And that's just the people that watched in on "dry land."

You won't see my 3 watch throughs in that statistic.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If you’re using Plex you might

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

Interesting! Good thing I'm not!

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I watched it once. Got sent to a few weed and porn sites, but that's alright. It was decent, pretty entertaining.

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 46 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

Are you raw dogging? You need adblockers, brotha.

Edit: Check out the host for adhd memes, and pick the second most popular community. Pick the mega thread, and it should be self-explanatory from there.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 35 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Or stop streaming and start seeding.

[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago

Yarrr good advice 🏴‍☠️

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

my 3 watch throughs

If you watch it more than three times, you're just playing with it.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 96 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The moment broadcasters realize there is a financial incentive to make fun of Trump

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 72 points 4 days ago (3 children)

they do, they’ve been milking trump from both sides this whole time.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago

CNN pissed me off with that shit in 2015. Trump wasn't a serious contender to begin with, but all our media was non-stop talking Trump because the buffoon got eyes on the screen. And here we are.

[–] proper@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] protist@mander.xyz 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

...that's how you get ants!

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Are we still doing phrasing?

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

I mean, that's the billion dollar question.

Will Paramount call this a win-win or will they scuttle their billion dollar acquisition to save the Skydance merger?

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 70 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A bit of a Streisand effect. I haven’t watched South Park in years, but I heard about this episode because trump was complaining about it. Otherwise I probably never would have noticed

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

With all the drama around Colbert, it was hard to ignore. I was hearing about it long before Trump tuned in.

Much more curious to see how Paramount execs respond, since the Skydance merger is what's driving their servile behavior.

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[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 61 points 4 days ago (8 children)

I pirated it, add one more to the count

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

Same. The actual view count is definitely much higher.

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I loved this episode. South Park pissed me off when they used kid gloves to mock Trump in his first term, but they're redeeming themselves in my eyes. This is the first time I've looked forward to seeing an episode in over ten years.

[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Apparently they had both endings ready, pending the election results, but they didn't expect Trump to win. Then they had to just roll with it going forward. It's hard to make satire of something that already feels like a satire in real life.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nah, that was a lame excuse. They've had no problem excoriating celebrities for doing minor dumb stuff, but they don't even try to really tear into neo Hitler? This feels like a correction of a past wrong.

[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What was the past wrong you are referring to? They spent entire seasons mocking Trump. I'm not sure that any of their satire targets got that many episodes dedicated to them.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

It was treating him like he was just some goofball rather than an existential threat to the US. The same thing most other things making fun of him did/do.

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 66 points 4 days ago

Still #1 torrent popularity for 6 days going now.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 59 points 4 days ago (1 children)

can't be, Trump said nobody watches South Park anymore

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 27 points 4 days ago

He knows what's popular with the people, I'm sure he was right, this is just libtard wokeist marxist communist abortionist feminist maoist stalinist anti-white propaganda.

[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 45 points 4 days ago

This thing has been viewed a ton more on the high seas due to the fact that nobody wants to support Pee Sky Plus anymore.

My educated guess (not including the free snippets they ran on cable shows and posted their own yt) is that close to 50 mil have seen the entire clip. Probably twice that have seen the crucial snippets of it at least once.

Trey and Matt already got paid anyway.

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Pretty good numbers for an irrelevant, fourth-rate show

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

5.4M more than the latest Simpsons, to put irrelevant fourth-rate shows in perspective.

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[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 18 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I can't believe the white house wasted valuable government time to respond to this episode.

[–] VeryVito@lemmy.ml 23 points 4 days ago

valuable government time

There is nothing of value to America being done in the White House

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Every moment the current administration wastes is immensely valuable to the American people. It’s when they are working that it’s bad for us

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[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 9 points 4 days ago

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.

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