Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/May 30 to June 5, 2021

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Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (May 30 to June 5, 2021) edit

Prepared with commentary by SSSB, Mcrsftdog, Benmite, Igordebraga

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May ends with many of its subjects sticking around a bit more, including a regular HBO show climbing to the top spot, and an HBO Max special that brought along most of the cast of Friends. Not that June didn't start with remarkable things, the most present being a horror movie based on true events.

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Mare of Easttown	1,232,548	Writing\reading this Report, a pattern can be noted that articles on TV shows enter right as the season starts, and either remain steady or lose visits with more episodes, with the only thing that raises views being the season finale. This HBO drama starring Kate Winslet as a policewoman with a fractured home life investigating a murder managed to invert it, as Mare of Easttown only earned a slot by the third episode and has only grown since then, with the miniseries closer managing to the top the list - which is also a reflection of its actual ratings, with the seventh having nearly a million more viewers compared to the first!
2	Tulsa race massacre	1,178,663	On May 31 and June 1, 1921, the Black population of Tulsa, Oklahoma was devastated by attacks from a White mob. Hundreds were killed, thousands were left homeless, and the prosperous Greenwood District—known as "Black Wall Street"—was destroyed. The massacre was left out of American popular history until relatively recently; the revival probably owes a lot to HBO, as both the 2019 Watchmen miniseries and last year's Lovecraft Country both featured the events. 2020 also had the unfortunate coincidence of last year's George Floyd protests being at their height on the anniversary of the massacre.
3	Deaths in 2021	951,295	To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
4	A Quiet Place Part II	874,861	Shh! The John Krasinski-directed horror flick A Quiet Place, about a family (led by himself and real life wife Emily Blunt) who must live their lives in silence to avoid killer aliens with amazing hearing, earned itself critical and audience acclaim as well as beaucoup bucks. It got itself a sequel, but does anyone else kind of hate it when they just slap "Part 2" in front of things? It could've been A Quieter Place, or A Quiet Place: Hold Your Breath, or A Quiet Place: Shut the Fuck Up. In any case, Jim Halpert seems to have avoided the sophomore slump with this one if online ratings are to be believed.
5	Cruella (film)	856,457	The newest female Joker movie, starring Emma Stone as a campy performance artist/fashion artist/mastermind criminal that will one day skin Dalmatians, was released to theatres and Disney+ on May 28.
6	The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It	830,910	This horror movie based on the trial of Arne Cheyenne Johnson was released to theatres and HBO Max on Friday.
7	Matthew Perry	742,353	Many viewers of the Friends reunion were worried about Perry after a withdrawn performance. During the show he admitted to anxiety surrounding how many laughs he would get. He has since announced that he and his fiancé had split after 4 years.
8	Naomi Osaka	709,447	Osaka was fined $15,000 for not giving a press conference after her first game in the French Open; the next day she withdrew, citing her mental health.
9	Frank Kameny	708,859	In 1957, Kameny was fired from the Army Map Service after his superiors learned of his homosexuality. He unsuccessfully fought this in the courts, and afterwards became a gay rights activist. The late Kameny, and pride month itself, was commemorated with a Google Doodle on Wednesday.
10	The Family Man (Indian TV series)	682,356	Prime Video has released this thriller starring Manoj Bajpayee as a middle-class man secretly working as an intelligence officer for India's counter-terrorist task force.
11	UEFA Euro 2020	668,617	Europe's most prestigious football tournament is due to start on June 11, having been postponed due to COVID-19.
12	Bo Burnham	593,897	The standup comedian and director of Eighth Grade (2018) released a new special, Inside, on May 30. The special was written and recorded amidst the COVID pandemic, which put a hold on basically all live performances; essentially, it's the standup version of Swift's Folklore.
13	N'Golo Kanté	584,477	Considered one of the world's best central midfielders, Kante's team won the 2020-21 UEFA Champions League, and his French national team enter #11 as 2018 FIFA World Cup champions, UEFA Euro 2016 runner ups and favourites.
14	Boris Johnson	582,986	The British Prime Minister got married to Carrie Symonds (pictured) at a private ceremony on May 29.
15	Trial of Arne Cheyenne Johnson	568,980	#6 adapts this court case where a man tried to defend killing his landlord claiming to be a victim of demonic possession. Johnson is played there by Ruairi O'Connor.
16	Joe Lara	560,429	Actor Joe Lara and his wife Gwen were casualties of a Cessna crash on May 29. Joe starred as Tarzan in an 80s live-action series while Gwen founded a Christian diet program.
17	Jennifer Aniston	533,432	Behind the portrayer of the possibly the most popular character of Friends (#7) comes the one star who managed to build a successful film career afterwards. Both are also the only ones of the six main actors without children (even if Aniston's character had a daughter during the show).
18	Gwen Shamblin Lara	509,404	The wife of #16, a dietitian most famous for starting the Christian diet programs with Weigh Down Workshop, and who died alongside him in a plane crash.
19	Lucifer (TV series)	504,107	Netflix released the latest episodes of this show revolving around DC Comics' interpretation of the Devil, and also announced a sixth and final season is on its way.
20	Army of the Dead	494,610	Zack Snyder's return to the zombie genre, which earned a positive response even if being noted for both indulgency (it's two and a half hours long, tossing around lots of ideas instead of just being a movie about people stealing from a casino vault in a undead-infested Las Vegas), and questionable cinematography where seemingly every shot is mostly out of focus.
21	Ed and Lorraine Warren	491,802	The Conjuring Universe centers around the stories of these paranormal investigators, such as the haunted house that inspired The Amityville Horror and the "Devil Made Me Do It" case currently in theaters (#6, #16). The Warrens are played in those movies by Patrick Wilson (pictured) and Vera Farmiga (pictured on #6).
22	1989 Tiananmen Square protests	475,850	32 years since the Chinese government responded to students protesting by sending in rifles and tanks (in the latter case, inspiring an iconic image, which seemingly vanished from Bing last week). And they have since done everything in their power to deny the violent events that ironically happened in a "Heavenly Peace Square", down to cracking down a vigil that happened in Hong Kong last week. Or somehow comparing the events to the invasion of the U.S. Capitol in January, when that one didn't end with hundreds of unarmed civilians being shot dead.
23	Friends	466,095	Closing off, the continued resonance of HBO Max reuniting the stars of a highly popular sitcom (and also bringing a plethora of guests, ranging from the show's supporting actors to famous Friends fans), first with the show about six New Yorkers who lived peculiar lives and drank lots of gourmet coffee itself, and then two more protagonists - sorry, Lisa Kudrow and Courteney Cox.
24	David Schwimmer	465,661
25	Matt LeBlanc	463,229

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (May 30 to June 5, 2021)

Exclusions edit

This list excludes 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 talk page if you wish.