The queen and the princess meet the king and the joker

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The queen and the princess meet the king and the joker

This traffic report is adapted from the Top 25 Report, prepared with commentary by A lad insane (November 17 to 23) and Igordebraga (November 3 to 9, November 10 to 16, November 17 to 23).

What is this, an episode of Downton Abbey? There's certainly enough royalty to go around (November 17 to 23, 2019)

Most viewed articles of November 17 to 23, 2019

Similar to last week, Star Wars is present (#1), another TV show makes an appearance at #2. Unlike last week, however, there are an ungodly number of royals peppering this list – in fact, another TV series, The Crown, is responsible (#3, #4, #5, #8, #9).

Rank	Article	Views	About
1	The Mandalorian	1,707,701	Similar to another time this list was heavily dominated by one subject, a Star Wars-related subject takes top ranking; however, this time that wasn't the primary topic on the list. Disney+'s debut, accompanied by this original TV series set in the Star Wars universe, has received positive ratings.
2	Caitlyn Jenner	1,570,820	Formerly known as decathlon gold medalist and Kardashian–Jenner patriarch Bruce Jenner, Caitlyn has decided to go across The Pond and survive in the jungle on the reality show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!
3	Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon	1,492,698	The Crown has returned, and thus again there's a views spike for the daughters of George VI. Given the show has skipped from the 1940s to the 1960s, the actresses have changed to two women who have played crazy queens: Margaret is now Red Queen Helena Bonham Carter and Elizabeth changed to Queen Anne Olivia Colman.
4	Elizabeth II	1,266,912
5	Aberfan disaster	1,212,970	Not everything The Crown brings into this list is old or dead royalty, it turns out.
6	Fiona Hill (presidential advisor)	1,156,864	Americans are divided into two factions right now: those who are eagerly hanging onto every word of the impeachment inquiry, and those who would like to end all of those responsible for the 24-hour news cycle and all the prolonged impeachment inquiries on it. The first group has propelled this article to its position here, as they rush to find out who the hell this person is anyway.
7	Frozen II	1,113,692	This list has something for the child inside all of us, for if this isn't your style there is, of course, Fred Rogers down at #23, having been portrayed by Tom Hanks (and as Weird Al said, nobody doesn't like Tom Hanks!) Here, though, Elsa and Anna return to travel on a magical, icy journey to discover happy things, because Disney likes happy things.
8	Princess Alice of Battenberg	1,073,049	More The Crown. One would think people wouldn't Wikipedia the name of the person in a TV show they're watching, for that would count as a spoiler – but that doesn't seem to be the case. In an alternate universe, this show was probably why spoiler warnings were deprecated: a lengthy RfC concluded with the consensus "no we will not put spoiler tags on an actual real-used to be alive person, and y'all can't figure out how to do that, so no more spoiler tags".
9	Harold Wilson	1,072,674	The Prime Minister during the period portrayed in the latest season of The Crown.
10	Prince Andrew, Duke of York	1,008,200	With the multitude of other royals brought here by The Crown (#18, and a third of the rest) one might think this is simply another case of TV fever, but no, Jeffrey Epstein (#13) and his entourage of criminals brought a royal down with them. Andrew's allegations that he couldn't possibly have been the person his accuser referred to – for he simply couldn't sweat, and she said he did! – were shot down by some photos (and I hate the Mirror too, don't worry) and little princey's birthday was cancelled, not to mention the whole "being kicked out of Buckingham Palace" issue.

The Force is strong with this Report (November 10 to 16, 2019)

Most viewed articles of November 10 to 16, 2019

Even if late due to a delay with the WP:5000, the Report is actually early with a topic: Star Wars got a #1 one month before it is supposed to with the Disney+ (#16) series The Mandalorian (#1, #11), and is also present in a new video game (#20). Aside from eight pages that remained from last week, there's politics (#7), television (#8).

Rank	Article	Views	About
1	The Mandalorian	1,570,155	Proving that in spite of a divisive Episode VIII and an underwhelming spin-off, Star Wars still moves the masses: a Disney+ (#16) series by Jon Favreau starring a bounty hunter managed to top our list.
2	Joker (2019 film)	1,029,042	The list of movies which have grossed $1 billion in 2019 finally has a non-Disney production with this take on the clown supervillain. Readers must also be curious about the "Future" section, given how rarely studios decide not to follow such acclaim and popularity with sequels.
3	Death Stranding	803,135	Hideo Kojima doesn't need Konami to make successful video games, as this PlayStation 4 action game set in a post-apocalyptic USA, whose cinematic values go down to having actors such as Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen and Léa Seydoux, got great reviews and good sales.
4	Deaths in 2019	723,908	I never thought I'd die alone I laughed the loudest, who'd have known...
5	Henry V of England	669,639	Henry the Fifth at fifth place, how appropriate. The high views are due to the Netflix movie The King.
6	John Demjanjuk	587,622	Still on Netflix, documentary series The Devil Next Door tells the story about a Ukrainian-American autoworker who allegedly worked as a guard at Nazi extermination camps during World War II.
7	Marie Yovanovitch	585,578	Yovanovitch was the United States Ambassador to Ukraine. Trump's involvement with that country's government is having repercussions for him. Yovanovitch was ousted after an alleged smear campaign, and is now testifying in the impeachment inquiries against Trump.
8	Rick and Morty (season 4)	547,199	Adult Swim has debuted the newest episodes of this time-and-space-hopping cartoon starring a mad scientist and his grandson.
9	Doctor Sleep (2019 film)	544,211	Decades after The Shining, a traumatized Danny Torrance (now played by Ewan McGregor) tries to save a girl with similar powers from people who literally feed on said "Shining" kids. Doctor Sleep got good reviews for being atmospheric, well-acted and spooky (even if, on this writer's opinion, a bit long and slow), but has struggled on the box office, having barely recouped its $55 million budget worldwide.
10	Jeffrey Epstein	523,050	Jeffrey Epstein has become the Internet's newest "tree-fiddy" – wedged into every unexpected nook and cranny, the message awaits: "Epstein didn't kill himself". While the real-life events that transpired in his cell that night remain a matter of conjecture, the popular opinion is certainly clear.

And it's hard to watch some Netflix, in the cold November rain (November 3 to 9, 2019)

Most viewed articles of November 3 to 9, 2019

The eleventh month started spearheaded by the subjects of two streaming productions, meaning Netflix is the cause of boosted views for 15th century English kings and World War II Soviets working with the Nazis. More history is found in the 30th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall (#14), men who inspired holidays (#24) and Google Doodles (#21), a land dispute to be settled (#12) and a battle to be documented by Bollywood (#7). Speaking of movies, #3 and #5 are the same Hollywood blockbusters from last week(s), now joined by a horror flick (#15) and an actor (#10) who found love (#9) years after a tragedy (#19). The recently deceased (#4, #11), video games (#6), books adapted by HBO (#13), MMA (#18, #20), politicians from both sides of the Pond (#16, #17), and a changed landmark (#23) close the list.

Rank	Article	Views	About
1	Henry V of England	1,803,080	One of the royal Henrys chronicled in Shakespeare's plays, which in turn are now adapted in the Netflix production The King.
2	John Demjanjuk	948,250	Still on Netflix, the documentary series The Devil Next Door tells the story about a Ukrainian-American autoworker who allegedly worked as a guard at Nazi extermination camps during World War II.
3	Joker (2019 film)	940,728	10 years after the Batman movie that made everyone just want to talk about the Joker broke a billion dollars worldwide, a movie just about Gotham's clown sociopath is nearing a ten digit gross as well. Seems like everyone wants to dance with the devil in the pale moonlight.
4	Jeffrey Epstein	918,694	The possibility that the deceased pedophile financier was killed instead of having hanged himself has become an online meme.
5	Terminator: Dark Fate	916,532	In spite of being better than what you'd expect from a movie with a 63 year old female gunslinger and a 72 year old killer robot, Terminator: Dark Fate has not enthralled audiences so much (it opened atop the box office but now has fallen to #5, and only broke $200 million worldwide so far) and possibly won't get any follow-ups. As a fan of this series even if I had objections to some things in Dark Fate, it saddens me to see the franchise terminated.
6	Death Stranding	796,900	Hideo Kojima is back (while Konami continues to neglect his best known work) with this PlayStation 4 title whose cinematic values go down to having actors such as Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen and Léa Seydoux.
7	Third Battle of Panipat	796,729	Bollywood released the first trailer for Panipat, which in December will re-enact this 1761 confrontation against an invading Afghan army.
8	The King (2019 film)	791,674	Timothée Chalamet plays our #1 in this Netflix movie.
9	Alexandra Grant	771,172	Possibly the most popular actor of the year, Keanu Reeves has reportedly been dating an artist with whom he has already written two books, making all his fans very happy that "Sad Keanu" might be a thing of the past.
10	Keanu Reeves	761,249

Exclusions

These lists exclude 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 Top 25 Report talk page if you wish.

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Comment. Sadly no love for Epstein didn't kill himself. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 00:17, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The dates and the pageviews make it ineligible for this page, but yes it is a very strange occurrence. I should say 1st that from reading a history of the NYC Medical Examiners Office (a year ago) that I have a great deal of respect for them. 2nd while the official version sounds bizarre to me, the other (conspiracy) versions sound even more bizarre. I suppose there is one more version (nobody else that I've seen is even suggesting this) that fellow inmates did it, somehow just on opportunity and the spur of the moment. That one seems impossible, but so do the conspiracy theories.

Since you are quite involved in the article, perhaps you can give some rational explanation of what the conspiracy theories say. I haven't seen this yet. The CTs as far as I understand them are A) the Clintons did it, B) Trump did it, C) the US intelligence services did it, D) somebody else whose name has been mentioned with Epstein's did it, D) British intelligence services did it. All of these seem impossible to me. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 13:10, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Smallbones: I meant more in the way of reader statistics. I've probably never written an article that has had high amount of views. The meme is in the eye of the beholder. It might be a very political statement, but it's pretty nonpartisan since no one has to agree on the details. (edit conflict) –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 05:11, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Can't fucking believe the Epstein didn't kill himself thing got a wikipedia article -Gouleg (Talk • Contribs) 20:36, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It's this generation JFK assassination conspiracy theory. I wouldn't be surprised if it has as long of a lifespan. (There are just as many possible individuals who could be involved.) -- llywrch (talk) 20:29, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I've never like seeing the same article in multiple weeks. Would it be possible to show the top 25/30/or 40 in the past month instead of weekly lists? MB 01:19, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It's tough to do because The Signpost is (now) on a monthly cadence, but the WP:TOP25 lists are prepared weekly. - Bri.public (talk) 19:56, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Quite interesting how the top viewed articles are related or distinct in these reports. Gotitbro (talk) 22:51, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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