loclhero
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Commenting sure. Although I've also noticed a number of people having their first post ever be about this ep, on various forums.
But this one episode got absurdly more ratings than any other in the series. Somebody wanted the marketing bullet point of it getting a perfect 10, even though of course, if you look at the breakdown, it is not all 10's. There are just way more 10 ratings than there usually are ratings total.
You are not seriously naive enough to think that is organic, are you?
Yes, I do. And you can't possibly believe that the only things that go viral are shitty pet videos on youtube.
This show has gone viral, it's simple. The reason is Netflix started streaming it 2 years ago. About 6 months ago, AMC started running the show from start to finish every night. The hype started building.
I can probably count off 20 people I know myself who have been staring at their tv for a month binging on BB on netflix.
This is simple stuff. Their nielson ratings have gone from about a million people watching every week to over 6 million. Social media took care of the rest.
As a matter of fact, I'm one of those people who have posted for the first time on a couple of BB forums within the past 2 weeks and other than BHW, I was not a member of ANY social website before that.
If we had twitter, facebook etc when the Sopranos ended it would have been a shit storm of the same sort or more.