Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/February 14 to 20, 2021
The Top 25 Report
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Rank Article Class Views Image Notes/about 1 Rush Limbaugh 2,144,409 Limbaugh, a wildly successful talk radio host and iconoclastic conservative figure, passed away this last Wednesday. Online discourse was divided; some people insisted on not speaking ill of the dead, while others wanted to hold their crab rave and bring up Limbaugh's many misdeeds - including speaking ill of gay people that had died of AIDS. 2 Death of Elisa Lam 1,444,914 "An irresponsible, bloated mess"; "ghoulish and unsavoury"; "wallowing in pseudo-science and non-science". Surprisingly enough, these are not ways in which people have described Rush Limbaugh (or at least they've never used those exact words), but reviews for Netflix's new docuseries Crime Scene. Lam went missing while staying at Los Angeles's Cecil Hotel, a spot which was already infamous for a legacy of homicide and seedy behavior, in February 2013. A security video showed her behaving erratically in an elevator; a month later, she was found dead in the hotel's water tank. This mysterious death is the subject of Crime Scene, released February 10. As mentioned before, the series has earned itself less fans than the hotel where she died. Plus, it apparently lacks positive role models.
3 Cecil Hotel (Los Angeles) 1,123,320 4 WandaVision 1,068,291 This Disney+ series, the first installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2019, has delivered week after week of twists - the latest being the introduction of a clear antagonist. 5 List of deaths and violence at the Cecil Hotel 894,253 6 Deaths in 2021 791,598 7 Valentine's Day 748,353 This holiday, adored by the lovers and scorned by the single, fell upon us once again at the top of this week. Users wondered, as they do every year, what St. Valentine did to earn him this day, only to discover that there are two different guys and, like, twenty different stories that it might be dedicated to, and half of them don't even have to do with love. If you were alone on Valentine's Day this year, well, you had an excuse - there's a deadly pandemic. Anyway, a happy Anna Howard Shaw Day to us all! 7 Vincent Jackson 717,153 The retired Wide Receiver for the Chargers and Buccaneers was found dead in a Florida hotel room. He was 38. 9 Naomi Osaka 679,162 Osaka won the women's singles tournament at the Australian Open, which took place over the week. Along the way, she defeated America's only celebrity tennis player Serena Williams. 10 Ted Cruz 653,180 This week, Texas was hit by a once-in-a-generation winter storm. Everyone turning up their heaters, coupled with most power suppliers freezing, strained the state's power infrastructure, causing widespread blackouts. Dozens of deaths have been confirmed so far. Governor Abbott blamed the not-enacted-by-any-government Green New Deal, the mayor of Colorado City told his constituents to stop looking for handouts, and Senator Cruz took his family on vacation to Cancún. After getting caught, Cruz booked the first flight home and explained that he was only escorting his preteen daughters to a resort they insisted on going to.
11 Agatha Harkness 640,910 This character's presence on the Top 25 is a spoiler for the newest episode of WandaVision. 12 Fred Hampton 623,509 Hampton spent his short life empowering the Black community through his involvement with the Black Panthers while building communities that lessened gang violence and provided poor people with necessary resources, so of course the FBI tracked him down and killed him. Judas and the Black Messiah, starring Daniel Kaluuya as Hampton, was released on HBO Max on February 12. 13 Judas and the Black Messiah 484,559 Biopic of #10. 14 Elon Musk 484,252 The richest (or one of the richest, depending on the day) man in the world spends his days posting about Bit- and Dogecoin. 15 Zack Snyder's Justice League 482,508 The Justice League that was released in 2017 had Snyder credited as a director, but much of the film was altered in post-production and reshoots by Joss Whedon. Some fans were convinced that the "Snyder cut," which surely existed somewhere, was far better than the lackluster Whedon version. However, due to the way effects-heavy superhero films are produced, the cut was probably far from complete (Folding Ideas has a good video about why.) After $70 million of effects and reshoots, the Snyder cut is finally complete - with a trailer dropping this last Sunday. 16 Richard Ramirez 482,358 The serial killer and star of Netflix's Night Stalker is finally upstaged by another true-crime spectacle. 17 Britney Spears 482,314 18 Elizabeth II 466,127 19 Serena Williams 425,318 20 Dia Mirza 395,015 21 Ash Wednesday 382,179 22 Kamaru Usman 370,428 23 Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 362,376 24 Perseverance (rover) 353,599 25 Mortal Kombat (2021 film) 347,309
Exclusions
- 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.