2024 marked the return of death to the top spot of this list
Does it mean I’m getting old if I don’t recognise half the names of celebrities or movies on the list?
How would a newborn recognize anything at all?
No. Contemporary culture is just fragmented (and some of the films are from India so practically nobody in the west has heard of them).
I’m surprised there isn’t anything about the United Healthcare CEO. Does the media blackout extent to Wikipedia?
That probably was too sudden and close to the end of the year. While these articles have spikes, its the large volume every day for the entire year that makes them add up.
I think FundMECFSResearch is right. Currently Luigi Mangione’s page has almost 900k pageviews in the last 30 days, whereas Trump has 1,700k. The lowest entry on the top 50 (Fallout (American TV series)) has a total of almost 10 mln views. So it’s clear that to make it into the list you have to be interesting to the public for multiple months, which Mangione hasn’t been (yet). Notice also that several items on the list are there thanks to the “echoing” of their prominence in 2023 - Oppenheimer (the man and the film), Saltburn and Poor Things (2023 films).
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