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| 1 | ChatGPT |  |
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So, this is here again. It's the sixth time this chatbot tops this list, tying with the Ebola virus and standing behind only a goddamned pandemic and a goddamned politician as the articles with the most #1 appearances. And it's not a case like YouTube getting more pageviews out of nowhere, ChatGPT is popular and on the news and thus the traffic is valid. But the specific reason for the views boost is unclear. Is it the new Record mode for meetings? Is it the bot cheating to not be turned off? The arrival of competitor Claude 4? |
| 2 | Jonathan Joss |  |
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In one of the most bizarre yet sad events of the year, this Native American actor was shot and killed on June 1. In January, Joss, best known for voicing the King of the Hill character John Redcorn, lost his San Antonio home in a fire for reasons unknown. This week, he and his husband returned to collect the mail and survey the damage, when Joss and a neighbor resumed a year-long feud, resulting in the neighbor shooting and killing Joss. His husband called the feud a homophobic hate crime, despite the SAPD refusing to acknowledge it as such. |
| 3 | List of Indian Premier League seasons and results |  |
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India's top cricket league was formed in 2008, and the 2025 edition came down to two teams seeking their first title, ultimately ending with the Royal Challengers Bengaluru beating the Punjab Kings. The tournament's biggest winner Chennai Super Kings (5 championships in 18 editions) ended this year's edition in last place! |
| 4 | Deaths in 2025 | |
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Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down Letting the days go by, water flowing underground Into the blue again, after the money's gone Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground... |
| 5 | Sinners (2025 film) | |
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While still in the box office top 10 two months after release, having passed $350 million worldwide, the supernatural horror period piece has become available for digital rental and download, and quickly shot up to the charts of services like Prime Video, Fandango at Home and iTunes Store. An HBO Max inclusion is also expected at some point. |
| 6 | Coco Gauff | |
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An American tennis player who was the highest-paid sportswoman of 2024, and one year after being doubles champion at the French Open got the singles title against #8, only her second Grand Slam trophy. |
| 7 | Ballerina (2025 film) |  |
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Technically the full name is From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, showing this is set in a world where seemingly every corner has someone involved with an assassin society. Ana de Armas already showed she could beat up men as a Bond girl in No Time to Die, and now gets a whole movie of her slaughtering males (and even a few females) as an orphan raised to be both a ballerina and a contract killer. Having a winning formula of this popular leading lady, stylized violence, and avoiding the meandering plot that made John Wick: Chapter 4 overlong, Ballerina got positive reviews and opened to $50 million worldwide, not enough to overcome the family-friendly blockbuster currently dominating theaters but covering half the movie's budget. |
| 8 | Aryna Sabalenka |  |
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Back to Stade Roland Garros, the current tennis #1 who plays for no flag due to her country's involvement in a terrible thing that doesn't end, and for the second time this year reached a Grand Slam final only to be defeated by an American (#6). Sabalenka certainly hopes this won't happen a third time at Wimbledon. |
| 9 | Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning | |
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Ethan Hunt, a secret agent whose pechant for jumping, hanging, diving, and driving dangerously borders on a death wish, finishes off his fight against a rogue artificial intelligence that started in 2023's Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning and in a way revisits all the eight installments of the franchise. While Tom Cruise beat Lilo & Stitch with Minority Report this time he's lagging behind the remake, but still with great earnings of over $450 million! |
| 10 | Dept. Q | |
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On May 29, this Scottish crime thriller series, based on the books by Jussi Adler-Olsen (pictured), was released on Netflix. The series stars Matthew Goode as a detective investigating a cold case. |
| Rank | Article | Class | Views | Image | Notes/about |
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| 1 | Brian Wilson | |
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The main composer for The Beach Boys fit the cliché of a "troubled genius", as along with writing immortal tracks such as "California Girls", "Wouldn't It Be Nice", "God Only Knows" and "Good Vibrations" he struggled with mental illness in a way that ultimately led to the cancellation of the album Smile (later released in truncated, re-recorded and unedited versions) and an unlikely partnership with his psychologist Eugene Landy, something even documented in the movie Love & Mercy and the Barenaked Ladies song "Brian Wilson". Wilson retired from touring in 2022 and has now died a few days prior to his 83rd birthday, with former bandmate Al Jardine noting he had been struggling with the long effects of the COVID-19 caught during his last concerts. Wilson is survived by his first wife Marilyn Wilson-Rutherford and their daughters Carnie and Wendy Wilson (themselves successful musicians on the trio Wilson Phillips) and grandchildren, along with five adopted children from his second marriage. |
| 2 | ChatGPT | |
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ChatGPT continues to have a presence on this list, predominantly as a consequence of being one of the most visited websites world wide. |
| 3 | Air India Flight 171 | |
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On June 12, this scheduled flight from Ahmedabad, India to London, United Kingdom, operated using a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, crashed into the hostel block of B. J. Medical College, less than a minute after takeoff. At the time of writing, the total number of fatalities stood at 279, 241 from the plane (out of 242 passengers and crew) and 38 on the ground. One passenger who did not survive was Vijay Rupani (#8), who served as the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2016 to 2021. At least 61 people were injured, one sole survivor on the plane and 60 on the ground. |
| 4 | Jannik Sinner | |
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The 2025 French Open came down to the top 2 of the ATP rankings, Jannik Sinner attempting his first championship at Stade Roland Garros and Carlos Alcaraz defending his title. In a final for the ages lasting 5 hours and 29 minutes (only 24 minutes shorter than the record-holding Grand Slam final), Alcaraz came down from losing 2-0 and saved three consecutive championship points to again triumph in Paris. |
| 5 | Carlos Alcaraz | |
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| 6 | Melissa Hortman | |
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On June 14, Hortman, a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives for the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), was shot and killed along with her husband in their home. John Hoffman, a DFL senator in the Minnesota Senate, and his wife were also shot in a separate but related accident, but survived. According to the FBI, the suspect in the shootings impersonated a police officer, and at the time of the writing is still at large. According to investigators, the suspect had a manifesto and a list of 70 targets, including prominent Democrats such as Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota and vice-president candidate in the 2024 United States presidential election; Ilhan Omar, a member of the United States House of Representatives; Tina Smith, senator for Minnesota; and Keith Ellison, Attorney General of Minnesota. Other targets on the list included abortion-rights advocates and abortion providers. |
| 7 | Straw (film) | |
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Tyler Perry continues making thrillers starring black women on streaming, this time a Netflix production where Taraji P. Henson is a single mom having her own Falling Down-like day of fury. |
| 8 | Vijay Rupani | |
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The Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2016 to 2021, he died in #3. |
| 9 | Housefull 5 | |
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The latest film to come from Indian cinema. This murder mystery film has two different endings depending on the version you happen to be watching. The killer remains the same, but the mastermind is different. |
| 10 | Deaths in 2025 | |
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For #1: The glass was raised, the fired rose The fullness of the wine, the dim last toasting While at port, adieu or die A choke of grief, heart hardened, I Beyond belief, a broken man, too tough to cry... |
| Rank | Article | Class | Views | Image | Notes/about |
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| 1 | Juneteenth |
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The U.S. nearly has a federal holiday every calendar month. This one, combining "June" and "nineteenth", commemorates Texas abolishing slavery on June 19, 1865 (announced by major general Gordon Granger, pictured). While Texas and other states honored the day locally, it was made a national holiday in 2021. |
| 2 | Anne Burrell |
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This popular TV chef was found unresponsive in her apartment on June 17. While first responders believed her death to be from cardiac arrest, officials are investigating a possible drug overdose, as numerous pills were also found nearby. |
| 3 | Iran–Israel war |
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This conflict began on June 13 when Israel launched surprise strikes against Iranian (#7) military and nuclear facilities, killing several top military officials and nuclear scientists. Iran and its Houthis ally have retaliated by launching missiles against Israel. The war saw a significant escalation on June 22, when the United States attacked several Iranian nuclear facilities. |
| 4 | 28 Years Later |
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After years in development hell, the third post-apocalyptic horror film in the series that began in 2002 with #18 finally got its premiere on June 20, receiving positive reviews and having a strong opening that beat Pixar's latest movie and stood only a few million behind a family-friendly remake. Sony Pictures was given distribution rights under the proviso of future sequels, and wasted no time in making a fourth film, filmed immediately after this one and set for release in January. |
| 5 | Ali Khamenei |
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The current supreme leader of Iran, he succeeded #15 in 1989. While he has issued a fatwa against the acquisition, development and use of nuclear weapons, he has also called for the destruction of Israel and supported the Axis of Resistance, a coalition of militant and political organizations involved in the Iran–Israel proxy conflict. |
| 6 | J. J. Spaun |
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This American golfer vaulted into the Top 10 world ranking by winning the U.S. Open on June 15. |
| 7 | Iran |
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The ever-controversial Islamic Republic that was once known as Persia. Its antagonistic relationship towards Israel already led to rockets and bombings last year, and this time it got worse (#3). |
| 8 | 2025 FIFA Club World Cup |
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Amidst all the controversy regarding immigrants and travel bans, the United States received 29 clubs from all over the world of the sport they call "soccer". Temperatures are high, some games are barely attended, but there are fun moments, mostly regarding the European teams that were supposedly unbeatable failing to break ties if not downright losing (to Brazilian teams, making the sad state of the national squad all the more embarrassing). |
| 9 | Deaths in 2025 |
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When darkness falls, may it be That we should see the light When reaper calls, may it be That we walk straight and right... |
| 10 | Melissa Hortman |
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The suspect who shot Hortman and her husband dead, and wounded John Hoffman and his wife, was captured on June 15. |
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