Oscars Broadcast Notches Third-Worst Ratings in History

The normies aren't revolting, they're just sick of Hollywood's mental illness and toxic narcissism.

John Nolte:

Only 2021, with 10.4 million viewers, and 2022, with 16.6 million, fared worse. Sunday's pathetic 18.1 million is the third lowest since 1974, when these numbers were first recorded.

Nolte points out the excuses the media is making: People have cut the cord so they couldn't see the broadcast on ABC, and there was no big exciting movie this year like Barbie or Oppenheimer.

Note that the latter isn't an excuse. Yes, when you're not making product that people like, they're not interested. How is this some kind of excuse for Hollywood?

Nolte points out that the Oscars were available on popular streamer Hulu this year, so the "cut the cord" excuse also rings hollow.

To prove just how lame those excuses are, one need only reach allll the waaaaaay baaaaaacccckkkk to ... 2023 -- or, the year before last.

In 2023, the Oscars were not streamed on Hulu or anyplace else. Nevertheless, more people (18.7 million) still tuned in.

Oh, and in 2023, there was no Barbenheimer craze. The frontrunner (and eventual winner) was Everything Everywhere All at Once, which only grossed $77 million domestic.

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For some 40 years, the Oscars reliably attracted anywhere from 32 million to 42 million viewers without breaking a sweat. The ratings collapse began in 2016 when President Trump was first elected, which is when the left lost its mind and, along with its mind, the self-control required to disguise just how much they hate us Normal People. This definitely includes the hateful, alienating, and insulting world of entertainment.

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So, in less than a decade, a show that was once something that unified our culture around our shared love of movies and had not dipped below 32 million viewers since 1974, is now unable to attract even 20 million viewers.

Hollywood needs some bright shiny new transgressive sex practice to champion, and they rolled the percentile dice and the results came up, Celebrate "sex-work."

So that's what they did.

posted by Ace at 02:16 PM

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