If living in a world being dragged down by a pandemic wasn't depressing enough, the deaths of African-American people allegedly at the hands of law enforcement led to protests, think pieces, a whole mess, regarding race relations and police brutality, and the most viewed Wikipedia articles followed the trends accordingly.
(data provided by the provisionalTop 1000)
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| Rank | Article | Class | Views | Image | Notes/about |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Death of George Floyd |  | 3,328,657 | .jpg) | On May 25th, a 46-year-old African-American man, George Floyd, died while in the process of being arrested by officers of the localMinneapolis Police Department. His death was alledgedly caused by Minneapolis Police Department officer Derek Chauvin, who, according to the article linked to the left, held his knee on Floyd's neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds. In the aftermath of his death, protests sprang up across the globe, some of them violent. Chauvin was later arrested and is charged with third-degree murder – akadepraved-heart murder, where someone does an act of "depraved indifference" to human life that ends up killing someone else. |
| 2 | Third-degree murder |  | 1,887,890 | ||
| 3 | Elon Musk | | 1,654,330 |  | On another note – Elon Musk is most probably doing well because of a) his recently born child, X AE A-Xii Musk (of whom Grimes (#16) is the mother) and b) the recentDemo 2 rocket flight (made possible by his company SpaceX, ranked here at #13), which sent Americans into space for the first time in just shy of nine years. |
| 4 | Jeffrey Epstein | | 1,340,068 |  | Jeffrey Epstein was, by profession, a 'financier' – defined in the Oxford Dictionary as 'a person concerned in the management of large amounts of money on behalf of governments or other large organizations'. Unfortunately, he was also known for being rather sexually unrestrained. Up to 130 people have said that they're Epstein's biological children. That's rather unsettling, if you ask me. Anyway, the fellows atNetflix have come out with a series on him, titledJeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich. |
| 5 | Dominic Cummings | | 1,299,284 |  | This individual is currently the chief adviser to British prime ministerBoris Johnson. The UK is currently in the process of loosening up lockdowns instigated by theCOVID-19 pandemic. |
| 6 | COVID-19 pandemic |  | 1,014,054 |  | Oh dear. |
| 7 | Michael Jordan |  | 962,894 |  | The Last Dance ended last week, but people still seek the basketball legend covered by the ESPN\Netflix show. The only thing missing for basketball fans is for the NBA's return in late July – finishing the regular season, unlikeskipping to a bigger postseason like the NHL will do. |
| 8 | Jacob Frey | | 840,724 |  | The mayor of Minneapolis, who after seeing his law enforcement cause #1, called for the dismissal of the responsible policemen and for Derek Chauvin to be charged for his alleged crimes. |
| 9 | Deaths in 2020 |  | 811,941 |  | A lot of people die; unfortunately, 2020 is no exception. |
| 10 | Murder (United States law) | | 617,442 |  | It's most probable that the article for murder in the US came up as a result of the alleged murder of aforementionedGeorge Floyd via police mistreatment. |
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| Rank | Article | Class | Views | Image | Notes/about |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Killing of George Floyd | | 6,589,437[a] |  | According to the Wikipedia article for the death of African-American man George Floyd, he said 'I can't breathe' in some way at least sixteen times while being pinned to the ground by the neck by the knee of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. |
| 2 | Antifa (United States) | | 5,682,388 |  | I'm not sure for certain, but I'm pretty sure that Antifa is a truncation of 'Anti-Fascism' or 'Anti-Fascist Action'. No surprises there then, because Antifa is an anti-fascist activist movement, which aims to cause change through things like protesting and sit- or die-ins. The red flag on the bottom you see in the Antifa logo supplied represents Communism (used in the formerSoviet Union and most if not all countries that sided with it (of which, along with the Soviet Union, can be referred to as theEastern Bloc, as well as China, Cuba etc.), and the big black flag representsAnarchism (a system used in various small states such as the now-defunctMakhnovia). |
| 3 | Jeffrey Epstein | | 2,262,029 | | Money-handler Jeffrey Epstein could have in excess of a hundred biological children. You see, he was quite sexually relaxed. He has now been showcased in Netflix'sJeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich. |
| 4 | Shooting of Breonna Taylor | | 1,756,388 |  | Another police brutality issue, this time involving police officers servingLouisville, Kentucky. After the mentioned police officers came into Ms. Taylor's home with permission of a search warrant, Taylor's boyfriend fired some shots at the officers, believing they were intruders. The police officers (who might've assumed that Taylor and boyfriend were actively trying to fight them off, not knowing they were the police) returned fire with over twenty shots. Taylor died from the incident. |
| 5 | Anonymous (group) |  | 1,620,398 |  | Enigma, right? Anonymous has been around since 2003, and are a predominantly Internet-based movement that has no definite leader. Indeed – it is reasonably safe to say that the hierarchical makeup of Anonymous is indeed an anarchy. The death of George Floyd (#1) has evidently angered at least a few Anons, and it seems that Anonymous is set to reveal the Minneapolis Police Department's alleged "crimes to the world". |
| 6 | Elon Musk | | 1,309,293 | | Good to see English Wikipedia readers still reeling fromDemo 2, a rocket mission by Musk's companySpaceX that ultimately sent American astronauts to space for the first time in nine years. The (I believe) two astronauts that Demo 2 sent up are now housed in the International Space Station (#25). |
| 7 | George Floyd protests | | 1,093,714 |  | The death of George Floyd has sparked protests against racism and police brutality. Protests have swept the world, everywhere from my home New Zealand to theUnited Kingdom, on the other side of the world. The picture attached is of people protesting outside theTennessee State Capitol inNashville, Tennessee. |
| 8 | Black Lives Matter | | 1,087,667 |  | Black lives matter! They do, you know. Unfortunately, it seems that some non-Black people don't realise that. In my opinion, the most noticeable difference between Black Americans and White Americans is that Black Americans have a darker skin tone than White Americans. Such a change is almost exclusively due to a higher concentration ofmelanin, a colouring chemical that's found in your skin and hair. Come on people, don't now be making fun of how much melanin people have. |
| 9 | Ghislaine Maxwell | | 1,072,716 |  | An acquaintance of #3-rankedJeffrey Epstein. |
| 10 | Candace Owens | | 1,042,033 |  | Raking in some controversy for being a vocal criticiser of the George Floyd protests. |
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| Rank | Article | Class | Views | Image | Notes/about |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Edward Colston | | 2,159,287 |  | Edward Colston was "an English merchant, philanthropist, and Tory Member of Parliament who was involved in the Atlantic slave trade". Born in the city ofBristol, Colston eventually hada statue of him built in said city. This statue was recently toppled into theBristol Harbour by people taking part in theGeorge Floyd protests. And hey, guess what – the article for Edward Colston soon became so affected by edit warring that it earned full protection for itself! Now, that's technically a bad thing but I personally celebrate when it does happen, because it's so damn rare. |
| 2 | Chiranjeevi Sarja |  | 1,755,877 |  | A recently deceased Indian actor from theSandalwood, who suffered a cardiac arrest at just 39, leaving behind a filmography of over 20 movies. |
| 3 | George Floyd | | 1,649,886 | .jpg) | African-American guard, bouncer and rapper among other things, and indirect cause of ahuge wave of protests. |
| 4 | Juneteenth | | 1,380,192 |  | The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. This was part of a letter read out on June the 19th, 1865, by Union Army generalGordon Granger off the balcony of the house pictured (Ashton Villa) that declared all slaves in Texas free. In doing so, Granger had freed the last slaves in the United States. Good day, don't you think? |
| 5 | Killing of George Floyd | | 1,074,790 | .jpg) | On May the 25th this year, 46-year old African American man George Floyd was apprehended bypolice of Minneapolis, Minnesota. After that, police officer Derek Chauvin allegedly knelt on Floyd's neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. By the end of this time, Floyd had died. |
| 6 | Tulsa race massacre | | 1,060,691 |  | Just over 99 years ago, mobs of White Americans stormed a region in the city ofTulsa;Greenwood. Greenwood happened to have lots of rich African-Americans, and it's evident that the aforementioned White Americans in question didn't like that. Now, no major violence was really happening at this moment. However, things boiled over when African-AmericanDick Rowland was accused of being mean to White American Sarah Page. He was sent to a courthouse. Some White Americans came over to spectate. By now, some members of the African-American community of Greenwood had apparently heard rumours that Rowland had been lynched (for those of you who don't know, let's just say that's one of the more brutal ways to die). As a consequence, some African-Americans came over too, armed. And yeah, things just got worse from there. I'd say that the Tulsa race massacre's notoriety has jumped due to George Floyd'srecent death. |
| 7 | Shooting of Breonna Taylor | | 1,020,507 | | Another incident involving the death of an African-American by police. Relatable again to George Floyd's death. |
| 8 | Meghana Raj | | 1,000,428 |  | With just past a million views, Meghana Raj is an Indian actress who is now sadly the widow of #2 (Chiranjeevi Sarja). |
| 9 | Candace Owens | | 997,809 | | An American conservative commentator and political activist, known for her pro-Trump activism, and who is somehow against the two topics plaguing the week, the pandemic (said the deaths were overcounted, and that she'll refuse a vaccine) and the racial affairs (already a Black Lives Matters opposer, she claimed thatGeorge Soros paid people to protest the killing of George Floyd) |
| 10 | Jeffrey Epstein | | 988,149 | | A dead ("suicided"?) rich sex offender who wasone of the most viewed articles of last year, and has his dirty stories chronicled on Netflix'sFilthy Rich. |
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| Rank | Article | Class | Views | Image | Notes/about |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sushant Singh Rajput | | 11,538,094 |  | Wow. The 10 million mark had only been broken five times before, and only Trump post-election wasn't a deceased celebrity. ExceptPrince,David Bowie,Kobe Bryant andStephen Hawking certainly had an international appeal and legacy. Bollywood star Rajput earned his views for both the fact he comes from a nation of a billion people and the shock factor, given he hanged himself at just 34. |
| 2 | Juneteenth | | 4,655,883 | | "On Friday, it was Juneteenth, which a large portion of White America celebrated and learned about for the very first time." –John Oliver For details, onJune nineteenth, 1865, the Emancipation Proclamation abolishing slavery began to be enforced in one of the last states, Texas. 46 states celebrate this as a holiday, also known as Emancipation Day. And on these days where race matters are generating protests and think pieces everywhere, it's certainly a big deal! |
| 3 | Ankita Lokhande | | 1,819,981 |  | Our article on #1 only lists one known relationship, former co-star Ankita Lokhande. Yet another actress, Rhea Chakraborty,has been assumed to have dated him, and some parts of the internet decided to put the blame of Rajput's suicide on her. |
| 4 | Rhea Chakraborty | | 1,573,943 | _(cropped).jpg) | |
| 5 | Aunt Jemima | | 1,409,005 |  | Aunt Jemima is "a brand of pancake mix, syrup, and other breakfast foods", according to its respective Wikipedia article. It is a brand of theQuaker Oats Company, which is in itself currently a property ofPepsiCo (which I guess you'd know most fromPepsi andDoritos). Now, a central part of the Aunt Jemima logo is a graphical representation of a'Mammy', an African-American woman who works in a white household (think Aibileen Clark fromThe Help). In light of the racial relations revelations following thedeath of George Floyd, Quaker Oats Company announced a rework of the Aunt Jemima brand for reasons stated above. |
| 6 | 365 Days (2020 film) | | 1,055,835 |  | As ifThe Witcher didn't bring Polish works into the forefront, Netflix has now showcased this erotic movie described as "50 Shades of Grey in Warsaw", featuring raunchier sex and an even unhealthier relationship – as put byVariety, in one of the many scathing reviews the film received, "vacuous idiot is kidnapped by a hot, rich mafioso" who bets she'll fall in love with him after a year. Said review also summed up why the streaming crowd was drawn to365 Days: "No one ever went broke overestimating the horniness of a global population slowly emerging from pandemic-mandated isolation." |
| 7 | Nancy Green | | 1,048,856 | | And the dirty Polish movie stands between Aunt Jemima and the first spokesperson for the brand, with the incoming rebranding leading toefforts to keep Green's legacy alive. |
| 8 | The Last of Us Part II | | 975,742 | .jpg) | Seven years later (six countingthe expansion pack), the post-apocalyptic misadventures ofJoel andEllie are back in thisPlayStation 4 exclusive, no matter if empty landscapes because of a deadly disease might be too real lately. |
| 9 | Dil Bechara | | 887,738 | Due to being postponed over and over again because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Indian remake ofThe Fault in Our Stars directed byMukesh Chhabra (pictured) is now set to be a posthumous release for #1. | |
| 10 | Deaths in 2020 | | 766,776 | _(19966613763).jpg) | That cold black cloud is coming down Feels like I'mKnockin' on Heaven's Door... |
Where is the raw data? All the best:RichFarmbrough22:08, 28 June 2020 (UTC).[reply]
