Measuring What?

Watched the @TPUSA America's Half Time Show instead. It pulled well over 4.3 million viewers on it's YouTube live!!

— Charles Price (@CharlesAPrice1) February 9, 2026

4.3 million views of TPUSA "half-time show."

Because TPUSA didn’t do as well as you expected? 4.5Mil is a bit “low” when the sentiment was that a MAJORITY of the country feels the same as you.

— Mariiiiiii (@SaiyanMarz) February 9, 2026

Or was it 4.5 million? (Which, yes, isn’t that impressive.)

WIRED said it was 5 million, with 16 million views accumulated 8 hours later. The NYT went with 6 million. That wasn’t high enough, however.

Over 6 million viewers for the @TPUSA halftime show.

These are 6 million viewers that @Peacock & @NFL would have had for the #SuperBowl if they respected Christians, conservatives, and all Americans. #RIPCharlieKirk pic.twitter.com/GUQ9W00TT2

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) February 9, 2026

Something very Trumpian about “over 6 million “ in your headline, and then just 6 million in the next sentence.

The current estimate (via Facebook and People, per Google AI), is 142 million watched the Bad Bunny performance. That would be about half the country (although it was probably an intentional audience). Even 6 million is pretty small beer.

Are any of these numbers actually reliable? Shit, no. Do they matter? Like a dick measuring contest matters, I suppose. 

I mean, who really cares? And why?