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TPUSA Halftime Show Officially Hits NUMBER ONE Most Watched US Stream On Youtube

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Highest-Watched Halftime Show 00:14:27
And now it is official, my friends.
The turning point all-American halftime show has become the highest-watched U.S. YouTube live stream with on YouTube alone, 6.17 million concurrent viewers.
We're getting all the numbers in now, but it looks like they're estimating as of right now, 25 million total viewership with concurrence at 10 million across the board.
There's pros, there's cons.
I address this in an early morning segment, but there's a lot of updates.
And the reactions from the liberals is just, it's, it's, I, what I can't understand is that they don't let conservatives just be.
Now, to be fair, I guess I can't actually understand it.
If they want to destroy conservatives, then it makes sense.
The point is this.
Bad Bunny is politically divisive and not particularly well known to a general American audience.
He is one of the top streamers, but this is because he performs extremely well with the 20% Spanish-speaking minority, which means the overwhelming majority of Americans don't know his songs.
And we've got video showing you what it was like where people were just like, who is this guy?
Now, for me, I was at a major sports book in Maryland, MGM National Harbor, and I'm not exaggerating when I say the small handful of people that I had met and was around were like, we don't know who this guy is.
What is this?
Bad Bunny is big internationally.
And so it seems that the whole play here for the NFL was to try and build up an international audience.
That's why, controversially, as Bad Bunny's rounding out his performance, he says, God bless America, and then goes on to list a whole bunch of other countries.
This is something we see with South Americans where not all of them, but some of them get offended at the idea that we call ourselves America despite only being the United States of America.
It's not, nobody created this colloquialism as an insult to other countries in the Americas.
It's just shorthand for United States of America.
They say America.
Well, his point was, we are all America from Chile to Uruguay to Paraguay, all of that stuff.
And that's not what the NFL has always been.
I believe this was inevitable.
You were always going to clash with corporate interests saying, how do we make more money?
Well, what we are seeing now, my friends, is that conservatives, pro-America, American exceptionalism, they say we want our own show.
And the crazy thing about it is, despite the tremendous success, all these articles are popping up saying it failed.
Or they're accusing Kid Rock of lip-syncing, which is just absolute cringe.
And you know what's going to happen?
Well, there's a video where you can see Kid Rock put the mic to his mouth.
And then about a second later, you hear him.
There's a million and one explanations for this.
And I actually think everyone got it wrong.
I think Kid Rock's just using a backing track for his songs.
Some have argued that it's the stream lag, which is normal for anybody who has done streaming before.
Others are claiming that it's all bot views.
No one really watched it.
And that's some conservative personality saying this, saying that it was fake, you know, but people have been ragging on turning point.
Let's do this.
Let's break down exactly what's going on with the news story and what it means historically.
The good, the bad, the ugly, all that stuff.
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The Postmillennial Reports, Turning Point USA's All-American Halftime Show becomes the highest-watched U.S. YouTube live stream with 6.17 million concurrent viewers.
And that's only for one channel.
When you edit all together, it comes out to about 10 million concurrent viewers.
Now, I already mentioned some people are saying, hey, those are bots.
I'm going to go ahead and say no.
Guys, bots are expensive.
Okay.
Like, there's a lot of people on Twitch.
It's harder to bot on YouTube.
Botting is, for those that are not familiar, when you use fake computers to make it look like you have more viewers.
YouTube filters these viewers out.
It's much more difficult.
I don't know about any other platform.
YouTube actually has a thing where they send you, like every month in your analytics, it tells you views that are removed from your channel for being fake.
That being said, it can be expensive to get even 100K could cost you like 50 grand.
If it were true that they were botting, it would have cost them millions, millions of dollars.
And I don't even know if the computers exist for that level of botting.
So anyway, Postmilleno says, Sunday marked Super Bowl.
What are we on?
55?
No, 60?
What Super?
I don't know what Super Bowl we're on.
What Super Bowl?
And you all do, so why am I even bothering asking this?
It's Super Bowl 60.
Okay, yeah, yeah.
See, I know my Roman numerals, guys.
They say the All-American Halftime show is an alternative to Bad Bunny.
The stream on YouTube brought in 6.17 million concurrent viewers at its peak, making it the performance the second highest stream in terms of peak concurrent viewers on the platform of all time and the highest in the US.
Number two all-time, number one.
But here's the truth.
I suppose the pitfall here is because they decided to divvy up the stream between different channels, it actually reduced their peak single-channel viewership.
I believe that if the Postmillennial only, I'm sorry, the Postmillennial, the Turning Point USA only streamed on one platform, they probably would have been the biggest YouTube stream of all time.
I really do.
I really do think that.
I think they're estimated at 10 million with Rumble and YouTube.
It wasn't on X.
I believe if they didn't have it on Rumble and they only had it on one channel on YouTube, then it would have been probably eight and a half to nine million.
It would have been lower all around, but the number one.
So I think it's fair to say that this is the number one stream of all time.
I think anywhere, 10 million concurrence.
The other biggest was 8.09 million for India's Lunar Lander, which is amazing international event.
Per Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Colvett, the show had brought in over 25 million viewers between YouTube and Rumble alone.
Colvett said, based on tonight's success, we have committed to running it back again next year.
Yes, my friends, but what if next year the NFL gets the message and says, look how much money we lost.
Now, of course, the media is saying, well, 25 million, yeah, but 130 watched Bad Bunny.
I'm going to pause you right there.
130 million passively heard Bad Bunny give a monotonous a melodic beat.
Okay, I'm going to pull this.
Let me see if I can find this one because I was going to pull it up later in the segment, but I'm going to pull it up now.
And I think, is this it?
Yeah, here we go.
Let's play this video from the Super Bowl during Bad Bunny's performance.
Nobody knows the song.
The song is not catchy.
I'm sorry, guys.
I got to tell you this.
They had the weekend a couple of years ago, and I know all of his songs.
Even though I don't regularly listen to the weekend, I like Blinding Lights and Save Your Tears.
Is that it?
Those are the big hits.
Excuse me.
If you played it, I'd hear, if you played it and I heard it, I'd be like, oh, yeah, yeah, I know these songs.
You know what?
One of my favorite things ever is the band that everybody knows but doesn't know.
They know is is Train and uh, I was talking to my friend and I was like I mentioned uh, Tears OF Jupiter, I think it's called, and they're like, oh yeah, what was that band?
I was like Train and they were like yeah, like what was that?
One hit wonder?
And I was like what Train?
Like they have like 15 massive hits really yeah, but nobody knows it's Train.
You know hey, soul Sister, and uh, what's uh uh uh um, I I don't know the names of the songs, but if you play them you'd know them.
The point is this, if they had Train do a Super Bowl halftime show, the people in the audience would be like I don't know oh, and everyone would be singing along.
I know this song.
They say that Bad Bunny is one of the is the top international streamer, number five domestically in the U.s.
I'm sorry, this is just like it's it's it's, it's generic rap.
I don't understand.
Here's the thing about rap.
Okay, you got to understand this.
Rap says something.
That's what it is.
Some rep doesn't, but the point of rapping is to say words.
Right now there are a lot of songs I was just shouting out, Despesito okay, Despesito.
You know that song.
It's amazing.
It's in Spanish.
I don't even know what they're talking about.
I only speak a little bit, but we all know the melody, we all know the song, because the song is good.
The melody carries us Gangnam style.
Nobody speaks Korean.
We all love that song.
And then there's like obviously, the Macarena.
Nobody spoke Spanish but they all liked that song.
It's not the language, but if you're gonna rap and it's just boom and you're gone Bada, I don't even need to say any words at all.
Like if you're talking about lowest common denominator music.
That's what Bad Bunny was doing.
Now nobody knows what he's saying, so they're just going like yeah, I guess.
And so everybody around me and MGM is basically like I don't know what this is.
Why couldn't they have gotten Beyonce right?
Well Newsweek, they got the article mega halftime show ratings shot across the bow for Super Bowl, they say.
At turning point, USA spokesperson Andrew Kovet suggested the number could rise to as much as 50 million for the event.
I can tell you that it's a shot across the bow.
People are paying attention now, COVID said.
And you know, if you give us a year to plan this thing, I'm really excited to see what we can pull off.
I think so.
Apparently, this was a pre-recorded sound stage with an audience.
Imagine if Turning Point actually books a stadium.
They may not, the stadiums might be like, we have contracts with the NFL.
We're not going to let you do it.
But they could also just book a field and create a music festival.
So that's my pitch turning point.
Next year, during the Super Bowl, you need to get a festival ground somewhere so you can do the show with a C of 100,000, 200,000 people and then book those bands and make it a big music performance to stream.
Because this was tremendous.
It was absolutely tremendous.
Now, TMZ says, while Bad Bunny took one of the world's biggest stages Sunday, rock in the Super Bowl 60 halftime show at Levi Stadium, Kid Rock tried to outshine BB with his own concert.
Who had the better halftime show, Bad Bunny or Kid Rock?
I voted for Kid Rock because I'm going to be completely honest with you.
Tell me I'm biased.
I hear a Kid Rock song.
I go, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, ball with the ball, the bang.
I'm a cowboy, baby.
I know those songs.
You know what I mean?
Bad Bunny, I just hear, ba, da, da, da, da, ba, da, da, da, da, ba, da, ba, da, da, ba.
I don't speak the Spanish.
Sorry.
I'm not trying to be a dick.
I'm not ragging on Bad Bunny.
I know people like him.
I don't speak Spanish, so I don't know what he's rapping about.
And there's nothing melodical.
Melodic?
Melodical?
Like Despacito, I could actually gibberish sing.
You know what I mean?
Like, my point is, I don't speak Spanish, but I can certainly go, I know the melody.
I love the beat.
It's fun.
You're singing.
Everybody's dancing.
Bad Bunny is nothing.
Sorry.
It was not a good show.
I was miserable.
Media says Fox News reacts to what may have been the worst halftime show in history, not one word of English.
And Mediite, of course, ragging on them.
They've got this article.
It's hilarious.
It was just a halftime show.
The meltdown reveals how dumb we've become.
No, guys, please.
If they played, if they literally just were like, we're going to take Bohemian rhapsody and do the whole thing in Spanish, I'd be like, let's go.
I'm a big, I love Puerto Rico, my friends.
Puerto Rico gets ragged on all the time, even by Puerto Ricans.
But I like Puerto Rico, and I'm going to tell you this: it's America.
And I find it funny how Puerto Ricans are called immigrants or foreigners.
There was one viral news clip where they were like, they refer to this Puerto Rican woman as a Puerto Rican immigrant.
And people are like, what do you mean?
It's the United States.
It's a U.S. territory.
If you're born in Puerto Rico, you can fly to Florida and vote like you're an American citizen.
It's nothing, okay?
It's all the same.
And then there are people saying, like, deport Bad Bunny.
And I'm like, he's American, dude.
Here's my issue.
I think Puerto Rico needs to get more airtime in the United States.
I think, and maybe they want independence.
By all means, they could have that too.
And we pay them a lot of money.
I think we don't focus enough on Puerto Rico, Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands, right?
Alaska.
The U.S. is more than just the contiguous United States.
And so I like the idea of getting some Puerto Rican representation and saying, like, this is America, dude.
America is not just, right?
The problem is they chose the worst guy for it, someone politically divisive, and people are pissed about it.
I'm going to say it again because I know the libs are going to be like, what do you mean?
It was a great halftime show.
No, it wasn't.
You weren't singing.
You weren't dancing.
You're going, bop, I know because I was at this, I was there at MGM.
They got a massive sports book, okay?
And people were just like, I don't know.
No one really paid attention.
I was actually pretty surprised.
Worst Guy For Halftime Show 00:05:24
I was like, okay, let's see how they do it.
You know, it's a halftime show.
They get one guy.
To be fair, Ricky Martin was there too.
Great cameo.
They should have gotten Bad Bunny with other guests.
I said it before.
I'll say it again.
Now, Trump bashes Bad Bunny halftime spectacle.
Oh, boy.
The Super Bowl halftime show is absolutely terrible, one of the worst ever.
He wrote on Truth Social.
It makes no sense.
It's an affront to the greatness of America and doesn't represent our standards of success, creativity, and excellence.
Trump's been blasting Bad Bunny quite a bit, but this is where things get controversial.
This video is of Bad Bunny shouting out, not the United States.
God bless America.
Oh, wait, he said, God bless America, right?
Okay.
What does it mean to most people?
God bless America to the average person means the United States of America.
And then, so he
then names a bunch of Non-United States countries, and this is what's got people not so Happy.
He's talking about every other country in the Americas, which is half the planet, basically.
And he's not talking about the United States, but that was always the point.
Now, I'm going to mention this too: in reference to El Espanol.
They say the liberals are coming out and they're saying that, look, 20% of the country speaks Spanish and he does well internationally.
That's why they did the whole show in Spanish.
And my response is: the Spanish speakers in the United States overwhelmingly as well are bilingual and speak both English and Spanish.
Do you know what that means?
It means you could have a Puerto Rican Spanish language show that's largely in English with some Spanish, and that's going to play for everybody.
But you do it like this with somebody who is politically divisive and you do it with somebody who's not speaking English, and you're going to get backlash.
Now, I'm going to show you this from Mediite.
It was just a halftime show.
The meltdown reveals how dumb we've become.
Guys, listen, if you like Bad Bunny, that was always allowed.
No beef.
I think it's funny that there's conservatives that are like, oh, his music is terrible.
I'm like, well, it's just rap.
I don't understand.
There's no melody for me to latch on to.
I don't speak Spanish.
That's why I don't like the performance.
But people are allowed to like it.
I'm not going to rag on you if you're a fan of Bad Bunny.
He's a big star.
Fantastic, man.
You listen to the stuff that you like.
I know people like mumble rap.
I'm not going to rag on anybody.
I like pop punk.
You can rag on Blink 182.
Come on.
I miss you.
One, what is it?
One more time.
I'm a fan.
Even though they're not particularly good live.
Hey, sorry, guys.
People are going to be like, you listen to dumb music to him.
Yeah, sure.
You know what I mean?
Like, we're all allowed to like different things.
The point is, he's a politically divisive individual.
This is what creates the bifurcation where you get a TPUSA halftime show.
Yahoo says, six Bad Bunny halftime show political Easter eggs.
Oh, Easter.
No, it's overt political division.
Sorry.
Now, some of it isn't as divisive, like mentioning their power outages.
That's kind of highlighting just the corruption of Puerto Rico.
But some of it is.
Colonization, Ricky Martin singing.
Martin sang a verse of Lo que la paso a Hawaii, a song on the singers Debiti tierar mas photos, which compares Puerto's colonization to Hawaii's and the island's gentrification and potential U.S. statehood.
Hyper-political.
And by all means, you can say it's not meant to be insulting or offensive.
Politics is going to offend somebody.
That's the point.
This is politically divisive stuff.
Bad Bunny opens with a backdrop of sugar cane fields.
It's a reference to field workers in pava straw hats and colonization of Puerto Rico.
Not overly divisive, and I don't actually see anything any issue with this at all.
They harvest sugarcane in Puerto Rico.
Okay.
Sugarcane's fantastic.
There's no problem there.
You got climbing the power lines.
Yep.
The polls exploded.
That's him ragging on Puerto Rico.
I'm fine with that.
And then the original Puerto Rican flag.
Divisive.
This is the typically associated with sovereignty and political independence, not for support for the United States.
He's not coming out and saying, I love America.
He's coming out and saying Puerto Rico with a symbol of Puerto Rican independence.
Again, it's insulting to Americans, especially when I say something like, let's get Puerto Rican representation in the United States.
So people stop saying stupid things like Puerto Rican immigrant.
Even I can't remember which, I was on like Grock and JGPT, and they were like, he moved the U.S. from Puerto Rico.
I'm like, no, Puerto Rico is the U.S.
But now when he does stuff like this, if you want independence, fine, brother, take it.
Take your independence.
He acknowledges Tonyita, the owner of the famous Puerto Rican social club.
Totally cool, totally acceptable.
No beef.
Flags and Singing 00:03:24
And the last one, singing, God bless America.
And this is where he really spit in the faces of the majority of Americans.
Now, liberals are going to be like, yay, global citizen, one world, all this stuff.
And again, you're allowed to think that.
But a lot of Americans don't know and don't care.
Somewhat insular.
And they're going to say, why are you naming all these other countries with all these other flags in a procession marching forward like a migrant caravan?
These are not American flags.
And then the media is like, but the American flag is front and center.
That's not the issue.
The issue is the NFL is America.
People don't play football in other countries.
You want to do soccer, do soccer.
We have the World Cup.
This one was American.
But I tell you, my friends, it was always going to be this, that a corporation is going to say, how can we make money?
A new low for the NFL.
Bad Bunny featured two men simulating, dry humping each other.
Yeah, there's that too.
That was grinding people's gears.
I already showed you this video.
Jack Posewick posted it.
The majority of Super Bowl audience during the halftime show, they're not into it.
If they, man, I'm going to tell you guys, okay?
I'm going to tell you guys.
You've heard me tell this story before, and you know it's true.
Oh, I got a new story for you, actually.
I'll give you the quick version.
I was at a bar.
We're playing pool.
It's called Long Shots.
I recommend you guys go play pool at Long Shots in West Virginia if you ever get a chance.
And I went to the jukebox and I put on Bohemian Rhapsody.
Every single person in the bar started singing.
Not like literally everyone, but basically everybody was singing.
You turn on Bohemian Rhapsody, everybody sings.
And it was, it's so much fun.
It's so much fun.
That's America, right?
That's American culture right there.
And then you, I know, I know, he was around you.
But I know, then the song ends, it cuts to some like top 40 hip-hop song.
Everybody breaks.
Nobody's singing together anymore.
That's kind of sad.
We went to a resort over the holiday break, and I was hanging out with my boy Richie, Richie Jackson.
And we were in a hot tub in the winter.
Amazing.
I recommend you guys go to Nemekollen if you ever get the chance.
It's one of my favorite places.
And Richie makes a joke to another, one of our friends saying, open your eyes.
And then I said, look up to the sky and see.
And then guess what happened?
The whole hot tub starts singing Bohemian Rhapsody.
I mean, that's what I'm talking about, baby.
And at first I was like, uh-oh.
And then I was like, here we go.
I'm just a poor boy.
I need no sympathy.
Some lady starts singing.
Some guy with his kids starts singing.
Everybody just knows and loves that song.
I'm not saying you do the Super Bowl halftime show every single time with Bohemian Rhapsody.
But the point is that there is music that connects us all as people.
And Bad Bunny does not have it.
You want to march with all the flags?
Play the song that everybody sings together.
And don't change the lyrics and don't make it political.
Well, that's what you get with Bad Bunny, though, I guess.
Rich Barrett says, Google Trends show the interest over the last 24 hours for Halftime Show and the Turning Point halftime show.
Super Bowl halftime show.
And Turning Point Halftime Show, woo-wee.
The search volume was tremendously larger.
Streams Over Sales 00:05:18
Now, there's a reason for this.
It's fairly obvious.
If you're going to watch Turning Point, you're largely watching on the internet.
Even if it's on your TV, it's online.
You're searching for it.
So you're going to get a massive spike.
But there's something that matters.
I'm going to explain something to you about how fake, how fake the music industry is.
So we released a song called Together Again as a cover of the Daily Wire song, Jeremy Boring's Together Again.
It's the biggest song we ever released.
As you may or may not know, I actually released several songs, Teamcast Music, and I think like, I don't know how many released, what are we, like eight or nine?
I don't know.
Most of them charted on Billboard.
And so we wanted to make sure that with this song, this cover, it was a parody of Modern Synth Wave with a song written by Jeremy Boring and Michael.
I believe Jeremy Boring had performed on Michael Knowledge.
I don't know.
They may have both contributed.
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And so we did everything in our power to make sure it was tracked properly to properly chart.
And we should have hit the hot 100.
I say spiritually we did, because we sold over 30,000 singles in a week, and we got something like 12 million streams.
And so with each sale, we'd be looking at, I think we're looking at, you know, I don't know, 20 million streams, kind of like, not like a platinum hit or anything like that, but definitely charting for the week.
And we only charted on like emerging artists and sales.
And not even the top of sales, even though we had the number one selling single for that week.
We were told that the way we sold didn't count anymore.
And we were told by these libs that sales don't matter.
Nobody buys music.
That is a lie.
Here's the lie.
If the record industry could sell records, they would.
They've lost the ability to.
Still, there are artists that will sell 300,000 albums at launch.
We only did 30-something thousand of one single.
I'm not pretending to be Bruno Mars or anybody, but sales do happen and matter.
People still do buy songs.
It's mostly going away, however.
Streaming is taking over.
So here's the trick.
Many of these songs that you think are the top streams, it's because they autoplay them.
That's it.
The record label says there's a limited shelf space for autoplay.
It's not like YouTube.
On YouTube, you open it, you can scroll until you click something you like.
On Spotify and Pandora and these other streamers, you press play and you put your phone down and the music plays.
That means there's a finite amount of time in the day.
Certainly people do search music that they do like.
So there is something algorithmic to it.
Here's the point.
It means substantially more that people were searching for turning point as opposed to passively listening to Bad Bunny.
Now, people are going to know Bad Bunny, and he's going to get a lot of streams in combination with they prop him up and then people come back.
But I guarantee you, you could take any artist, put him on the front page of YouTube, and this person is going to make money.
It's just the way it works.
Natural pull, we call it in the music industry for like venues.
So, if you're going to play show at a bar, the bar wants to know, are you going to bring people in?
Or are you just standard entertainment for the natural poll?
New artists want to go to venues where people show up to watch shows anyway because it's a Friday night.
Venues want artists who bring people in.
So, if you're a mid-level touring band, you might bring in 300 people to a venue.
They're going to be very happy.
Or you're an entry-level opening act and you're hoping that the bar will naturally just have 100 people there.
Bad Bunny may have gotten a mass amount of viewership, but it's not because people wanted to listen to it.
It was marketing.
Turning point marketed, and everybody was searching because they heard about it.
It's substantially more valuable for people to directly engage than to passively absorb.
And another really great way to understand this is if you look at general advertising.
It is substantially more expensive to get an individual to do a read for you and personally shout your product out as it is to just put up a picture and say buy it.
Check this out.
We'll round it out with this.
This guy is not too happy.
We should have been celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States of America at that halftime show.
When I went to school, I was taught English.
I wasn't taught Spanish, so I don't know a word he was saying.
You know, the United States of America were an English-speaking language.
They should have at least put a closed caption on there or something so you could understand what they were saying.
That's a really great non-political point.
So if I pull up Desposito, you've got English translations in the song.
Milo's Criticism of Turning Point 00:05:33
I got to be honest.
I don't even really need it.
I don't even care if you sing words.
You could literally say la la la.
Desposito is a good song.
Bad Bunny doesn't have any songs.
No, I get it.
I'm being a little bit of a dick.
It's rap.
I like rap.
I'm not one of these people who's like rap's not music.
Rap is absolutely music.
I'm a big fan of a lot of rap.
But this was just boom, And there's nothing to it.
There's nothing that I can latch on to.
And the dancing, I've seen the same thing at a strip show, just with the clothes on the way they were doing on TV.
I'm going to push back.
The dancing was fine.
It was very like Latin, big beat, fine dancing.
All right.
And here's Tip.
I got no problem with the dancing.
None whatsoever.
It is what it is.
Milo.
Milo.
You know, everybody, Milo, I love you, brother.
Everybody hates, they're ragging on Milo.
He's fighting with Dan Bongino.
I get people asking me, like, why do you have Milo on?
Milo is Milo, guys.
You know, he is a known quantity and he's an imperfect actor, but I don't know.
You can rag on him all day for all the bad things he said.
In the end, I think that he, as much as we disagree, especially on things like this, I generally do think he does good.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I'm sorry.
Milo is a friend of mine and will always be welcome to come on my show.
And we always tell him to just be on his best behavior.
But he's been divisive and he made this post.
And the reason why I bring that up is because he's ragging on Turning Point, accusing them of botting, saying this one thing you can't fake on YouTube is comments.
If you had 5 million live viewers, we would expect the view count to be something like 15 million as soon as it finishes after processing maybe 60 million.
Oh dear.
Incorrect.
Not correct.
So he shows the comments are 125 and within an hour it's 5,839, especially for a very, very, very, very large show, notably the biggest yes ever.
It absolutely is going to lag.
That's just, that's true.
And right now it's sitting in around 20 or so million on YouTube.
You're not botting those.
It's not fake views.
You can see the likes, 667,000.
So I responded, and Milo, he did say they stumbled at big events.
I guess we have to wait and see.
And he did ultimately respond with his information.
Like, look, guys, Milo could be wrong about things.
That was always allowed.
He says, I was wrong about this.
I'm going to back off on it.
Maybe I'm wrong.
I say, yeah.
Because I responded with live chat or not comments.
After a stream ends, YouTube gives you a total viewership and it has to process.
Comments will start at zero.
So you can actually see massive difference between VOD views, comments versus live.
So basically what happens is for like Timcast IRL especially, we usually get, I think we do like 130,000 total views in the first live portion of the show.
And then it ends up at around, you know, between 200 and 300.
It just depends.
And we're in the offseason right now.
Some days, like during the election, it was millions.
It was like half a million.
It was like some crazy numbers.
That's just on YouTube alone.
On Rumble, it's comparable, but slightly higher because Rumble promotes the show.
YouTube doesn't.
So Rumble and YouTube are actually comparable in terms of viewership.
They actually rival concurrent viewership, but Rumble is actually promoting the show to help it grow.
So what happens is when the show ends, there's zero comments.
Even though it will say 50,000 views or something.
For a big show, you're going to have a massive discrepancy.
I do not believe they bought it for a variety of reasons.
It would be ridiculously expensive to do.
Candace Owens says, the problem with people who have a lot of money they didn't earn is they tend to have no idea how stuff actually works.
No, this is not possible result if you truly had 5.2 million live viewers.
Sorry, America, everything is still fake and gay until further notice.
That's just wrong.
16 minutes after the stream wrapped, there was 10,000 views.
Sounds about right.
And then you have Milo's one hour at 500 because they're getting different numbers based on their YouTube.
It's just it.
They're both showing something different.
I'm sorry.
It's likely real.
You know, people want to believe what they want to believe.
And certainly I will respect Candace saying everything is fake and gay because it largely is.
Guys, botting 6 million viewers would be the stupidest thing imaginable.
YouTube would block it in two seconds and it would be insanely expensive.
I don't even know if botting to that level exists.
Seriously.
Typically, these people on Twitch do like, they bot to like 50 to 100K sometimes.
And that's insanely expensive.
It really is.
The truth is, my friends, they did it.
They hit number one.
The biggest YouTube live event ever done.
I don't think they realized how big it was going to be because I think they probably would have sold some sponsorships because that is money in the bank.
You could probably sell sponsorships here for millions of dollars with that kind of viewership.
It's a message to the NFL.
They need to play it straight.
And I got no problem with Bad Bunny being at the NFL, but they got to mix it up.
They can't just have some guy nobody knows.
You got to have Bad Bunny with somebody else.
I'm going to wrap it there, my friend.
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