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Wait until OP hears about FIFA World Cup viewership.

I should have clarified that I meant SCRIPTED mass media events.

This was based off the idea in the article that reality is a constructed game.

It's also funny that you mention this b/c when I usually mention the MASH story in person, I also share that the other events of that magnitude are usually Super Bowl/World Cup etc. Guess it slipped my mind this time.

And Eurovision, with 200 million+ a year even more ;)

The super bowl that year had ~82 million viewers.

Soccer had 5 billion viewers across the world.

For a single match? This feels like comparing apple to oranges.

Yes.

For it’s time (meaning relative to the US population at that point) MASH is larger than basically every superbowl ever, except for maybe the last couple. I’m not hip on the current viewership numbers, but literally over half of America watched the series finale of MASH

4 billion people watched QEII's funeral worldwide