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Traffic report
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- This traffic report is adapted from the Top 25 Report, prepared with commentary by Igordebraga, Vestrian24Bio, GN22, Wizzito, Shuipzv3 and CAWylie.
She wore blue velvet, bluer than velvet was the night (January 12 to 18)
[edit]| Rank | Article | Class | Views | Image | Notes/about |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | David Lynch |  |
2,785,081 |  |
A widely acclaimed filmmaker known for works full of mystery and surreal imagery such as the movies Eraserhead, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, and the TV show Twin Peaks, David Lynch died at 78 as his already decayed health caused by an emphysema (consequence of decades smoking) took a dive once he was forced to leave his Los Angeles home due to wildfires. Along with the directing gigs that even landed him an Academy Honorary Award, Lynch also worked on music, photography and literature, and also acted on occasion, such as a memorable appearance as John Ford on The Fabelmans. |
| 2 | MrBeast | |
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His reality competition show Beast Games, which is currently releasing weekly episodes on Amazon Prime Video, has become their most-streamed unscripted show in history. Despite its success, the show has received negative reviews from critics and some contestants alleged that they were mistreated during its production, with five of the contestants filing a class action lawsuit against MrBeast and his company. |
| 3 | Game Changer (film) |  |
1,160,501 |  |
Like past mainstay of this list Pushpa 2: The Rise, this is also from Tollywood, but a box-office bomb. This is the directorial debut of S. Shankar (pictured) in the Telugu industry but it ultimately became his fourth consecutive overall film to fail at box office. Yet, what really worries me is another film (from Kollywood) directed by him is releasing next week and its a sequel to the biggest disappointment of 2024. |
| 4 | Kumbh Mela |  |
1,079,008 |  |
An important Hindu pilgrimage that happens every 6 to 12 years, with the 2025 Prayag Kumbh Mela scheduled to take place from 13 January to 26 February at the Triveni Sangam in Prayagraj. |
| 5 | Pete Hegseth | |
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#8's pick for the United States Secretary of Defense had his confirmation hearings this week. |
| 6 | Deaths in 2025 |  |
1,052,510 |  |
From one of #1's movies: Turn off the sun; pull the stars from the sky The more I give to you, the more I die! |
| 7 | Pam Bondi | |
999,773 |  |
#8's pick for the United States Attorney General had her confirmation hearings this week. |
| 8 | Donald Trump | |
776,542 |  |
It’s been a long four years since Trump was last in the Oval Office, but, starting Monday, he will be sitting behind the Resolute desk once again. On his successful campaign to reclaim the Presidency, the 45th and 47th President sustained four indictments and 34 felony convictions, narrowly survived an assassination attempt at a rally by less than an inch, and kept going despite a swap at the top of the Democratic ticket. He won all seven battleground states and (narrowly) even the popular vote, robbing Grover Cleveland of his sole claim to fame in American history (before this point he was the only President elected to nonconsecutive terms). Whether you love him, loathe him, or simply don’t care about him, it’s indisputable that Trump definitely knows something about the art of the comeback! |
| 9 | Severance (TV series) | |
749,163 |  |
This American science fiction psychological thriller series, filmed mostly at Bell Labs (pictured), debuted on Apple TV+ in 2022. Its first season received 14 Emmy nominations but only won creative ones (title design and music). It was renewed for future seasons soon after the release of the first, the second of which premiered January 16. |
| 10 | Squid Game season 2 | |
699,841 |  |
Set three years after Seong Gi-hun won the Squid Game, he returns to the game in season 2 to stop them once and for all. Joining the cast are Park Sung-hoon as a transgender woman seeking a gender reassignment surgery, Im Si-wan as a former YouTube star who lost his fortune, Lee Jin-wook as a man trying to win the money for his cancer-battling daughter, Kang Ae-shim and Yang Dong-geun as mother and son who enter the game individually in a desperate bid to clear his debts just to find each other there, Choi Seung-hyun as a purple-haired rapper, known by his stage name "Thanos", and Jo Yu-ri as a heavily pregnant woman hoping to win enough money to support her baby as a single mother. The season garnered positive reviews and big viewership numbers, set record for highest premiere viewership for Netflix surpassing Wednesday season 1, and it is expected to be followed by the third and final season this year.|} |
He's at it again and he's gonna win (January 19 to 25)
[edit]| Rank | Article | Class | Views | Image | Notes/about |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Donald Trump | |
3,884,456 | |
On January 20, he was sworn in (#8) as the 47th President of the United States, taking over from Joe Biden. He immediately issued a series of executive orders to fulfil his agenda. They include withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization and the Paris Agreement, re-declaring a national emergency at the Mexico–United States border, directed the federal government to only recognize two genders, estabishing the Department of Government Efficiency to be headed by #6, rescinding artificial intelligence policy goals, reversed sanctions on Israeli settlers, pardoned around 1,200 January 6 defendants, commuted sentences for members of Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, ordered the federal renaming of #9 to the "Gulf of America" and Denali back to Mount McKinley, and delayed a ban on TikTok by 75 days. An order to end birthright citizenship was quickly blocked by a federal judge. Several inspectors general were also informed of their immediate termination, which may be "inconsistent with the law" and subject to court challenge. |
| 2 | MrBeast | |
3,666,653 | |
From most-subscribed YouTube channel to most viewed show on Amazon Prime Video and now he's biding to buy TikTok. |
| 3 | JD Vance | |
2,319,253 |  |
The new Vice President, who prior to inauguration met his Chinese equivalent Han Zheng, and after getting in the role swore in Secretary of State Marco Rubio and cast the tie-breaking vote to confirm Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense. |
| 4 | Melania Trump |  |
2,173,494 |  |
The Slovenian First Lady and the Hindu American Second Lady of the United States. |
| 5 | Usha Vance | |
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| 6 | Elon Musk | |
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Elon Musk, Elon Musk. Why you choose that to greet me?
In a rally shortly after the inauguration (#8) of #1, the centibillionaire who will head DOGE saluted the crowd in a way that instantly caused a ruckus. His defenders and a few other organizations tried to claim it was not as it seemed, but as The Hollywood Reporter put it, "Sometimes a Nazi Salute is a Nazi Salute.” Then, on January 25, Musk made a surprise appearance via video link at a Alternative for Germany campaign rally, expressing his support for the far-right party. |
| 7 | Ross Ulbricht | |
1,840,003 |  |
Ulbricht created and operated Silk Road, a marketplace on the dark web in which illegal products and services could be traded. In October 2013, the website was shut down by the FBI and he was arrested. Ulbricht was serving a life imprisonment sentence when #1 granted him a full pardon. |
| 8 | Second inauguration of Donald Trump | |
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Due to freezing temperatures in DC, this was held inside the United States Capitol rotunda, the first indoors inauguration since the one for Reagan's reelection in 1985. Among the ones in attendance were all the living U.S. presidents, and lots of rich people - a much divulged picture had tech moguls #6, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Google’s Sundar Pichai. |
| 9 | Gulf of Mexico | |
1,066,060 |  |
#1 signed an executive order to rename this to the "Gulf of America" for federal use. Even still, most of the world, including the majority of everyday Americans, will continue to call it the Gulf of Mexico. |
| 10 | Mariann Budde | |
1,061,367 |  |
As the Bishop of Washington, she gave a prayer service the day after #8, urging #1 to show mercy and compassion to vulnerable people, specifically citing the LGBTQ community, immigrants, and war refugees. #1 responded with insults and demanded an apology. |
Exclusions
[edit]- These lists exclude 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 Top 25 Report talk page if you wish.
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