Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/May 9 to 15, 2021


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Prepared with commentary by Mcrsftdog, SSSB, Igordebraga

⭠ Last week's report

On May 2020, Elon Musk topped our Report for welcoming a son with a weird name to the world. One year later, here's the billionaire again at #1! And sadly the other familiar big subject of the week is that of Middle Eastern conflicts.

Rank Article Class Views Image Notes/about
1 Elon Musk   2,023,222   Billionaire Memeguy hosted Saturday Night Live on May 8. His fans thought his was the best episode ever; his detractors thought it was as unfunny as anything modern SNL puts out. Musk also managed to crash two cryptocurrencies in one week—doge- crashing after a (presumably failed) plug on SNL, and bit- crashing after Tesla announced it would no longer be accepted as payment.
2 State of Palestine   1,543,993
 
 
In the past week, protests over the eviction of Palestinians from Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, has escalated into countless missile strikes on the Gaza Strip. Some say that civilian deaths are an inevitable result of political power - and that's paraphrasing Bari Weiss defending Israel.
3 Israeli–Palestinian conflict   1,473,599
4 Israel   1,445,058
5 Hamas   1,206,073
6 Iron Dome   1,043,060
7 Gaza Strip   1,003,236
8 Jupiter's Legacy (TV series)   983,196
 
What if a superhero was morally grey? What if they, get this, killed people? That'd be crazy. Jupiter's Legacy, the first piece of media to explore this concept, premiered on Netflix on May 7.
9 Deaths in 2021   937,721
 
Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere
Underneath my being is a road that disappeared
Late at night I hear the trees, they're singing with the dead
Overhead
10 Radhe (2021 film)   924,247
 
India has sadly been going through a huge spike in cases of the goddamned pandemic, so the latest Bollywood blockbuster had to be released digitally (though foreign markets got it in theaters).
11 Canelo Álvarez   894,865
 
At a May 8 match, Álvarez took the World Boxing Organization championship belt from Billy Joe Saunders.
12 Liz Cheney   823,887
 
Cheney, sole Representative for Wyoming, was ousted from House Republican leadership this week; such are the consequences of not falling lock-step with a failed President's conspiracy theory. If you're a liberal and want to glorify Liz, you should probably do some reading on her father Dick—one of the main architects of the Iraq War.
13 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis   765,162   One sad certainty about the Middle East is that whenever it seems like things calmed down, there will always emerge something to break the peace.
14 Resident Evil Village   759,949
 
The internet has an almost Freudian fascination with Lady Dimitrescu, a giant woman. If there's anything else to this game, I haven't seen it.
15 Al-Aqsa Mosque   727,631
 
It was the storming of the third holiest site in Islam, on the final Friday prayers of Ramadan, that prompted the ongoing crisis (#13) to new heights. When the site was set alight later in the week, Jewish Israelis were heard to be encouraging the fire, chanting what Yair Wallach called 'genocidal songs of vengeance'. Do they not realise that this adds fuel to the anti-semitism fire?
16 David Berkowitz   657,162 The "Son of Sam" murderer is the subject of the Netflix docuseries Sons of Sam.
17 Dogecoin   642,509   DOGE has been shooting for the moon for the past year. While it seemed like it was about to hit a conversion rate of 1 DOGE = 1 USD, it crashed while Elon (#1) was hosting SNL. Despite (or because of) the volatility, there are still people investing their real money for fake meme money. Musk also decided to fund a SpaceX mission with it!
18 Tawny Kitaen   617,451   Kitaen, probably best known for starring in four Whitesnake music videos, passed away on May 7. She was 59.
19 Mother's Day   611,854   Two holidays this past week: the former commemorating your mother, and the latter commemorating the end of Ramadan.
20 Eid al-Fitr   602,019  
21 Asperger syndrome   600,906   In Musk's opening monologue on SNL, he said that he was the first person with Asperger's to host the show. While this isn't necessarily trueDan Aykroyd having hosted in 2003—it prompted a conversation in the news media.
22 Halston   584,843   A Netflix miniseries, with Ewan McGregor portraying the mononymous fashion designer, premiered on Friday.
23 Invincible (TV series)   548,435   What if a superhero was morally grey? What if they, get this, killed people? That'd be crazy. Invincible, the first piece of media to explore this concept, finished its first season on Amazon Prime on April 29.
24 Mare of Easttown   511,992   HBO continues to air this show about Kate Winslet as detective Mare, who returns to Easttown Township to investigate a murder, and that in a reverse of television's usual viewership patterns actually increases its audience every week, having broken a million viewers with its fourth episode.
25 Spiral (2021 film)   504,940   In true horror movie tradition, the Saw movies just won't die. And the ninth (!) installment brought in some big actors (Chris Rock, Max Minghella, Marisol Nichols, and Samuel L. Jackson) to tell the story of someone copying the style of the Jigsaw Killer.


 
Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (May 9 to 15, 2021)

Exclusions

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  • This list excludes the Wikipedia main page, non-article pages (such as redlinks), and anomalous entries (such as DDoS attacks or likely automated views). Since mobile view data became available to the Report in October 2014, we exclude articles that have almost no mobile views (5–6% or less) or almost all mobile views (94–95% or more) because they are very likely to be automated views based on our experience and research of the issue. Please feel free to discuss any removal on the talk page if you wish.