Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/June 12 to 18, 2022

The Top 25 Report

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Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (June 12 to 18, 2022)

Prepared with commentary by Benmite

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This week's report reminds us that we can all be heroes, given we have the right contract. Some of us can don latex suits and fight bad guys on the big screen, even if our behind-the-scenes footage isn't quite as super as our on-screen personas (#12, #17). We can use powers of flight to take to the skies in search of love or a better movie or whatever #15 was about, or perhaps just in search of more recruits for the U.S. military (#6, #14, #21, #23). We can take down giant fictional beasts created by greedy bastards as we line our giant pockets thanks to other greedy bastards (#3), or we can tirelessly try to take down not-so-imagined greedy beasts in a fight for our home while the road ahead gets bleaker (#13).

We can also get just as much recognition and praise for throwing a ball into a hoop (#2, #18, #22, #25), and we don't even have to do it on a real court either (#4, #11). We can "speak truth to power" only to immediately be told by the world that our truth is not the real truth, or we can make amazing scientific discoveries, only to get lost to history in place of someone else who did less work (#24). Actually, maybe being a hero isn't all it's cracked up to be. At least the kids from Stranger Things (#9, #10) are still cool, right?

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Juneteenth	1,297,409	After the George Floyd protests in 2020, interest in this holiday marking an end to chattel slavery across the United States (following its abolition in Texas in 1865) rose greatly, prompting Joe Biden to declare it a federal holiday the following year. A couple centuries late on that one, Joe, but at least we got there eventually, and we had our very first official celebration of Juneteenth as a country the day after this week's Report ended. Too bad slavery didn't really go away.
2	Stephen Curry	1,066,585	The point guard for #22 makes his triumphant return to this list after bringing the team to victory at the 2022 NBA Finals against the Boston Celtics and earning his first NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award for the win.
3	Jurassic World Dominion	1,060,281	The core message of Jurassic Park could be described as rampant greed making us blind to our actions, but that hasn't stopped Universal from milking every last coin out of this dinosaur of a franchise. Speaking of last, this is now the sixth and final installment in the Jurassic Park universe, and it ends the series on a sour note, according to critics and viewers, who have suggested that the franchise needs to be encased in amber, never to be brought back again. But we all know how well that worked in the first one.
4	Juancho Hernangómez	1,054,518	#11 stars this Spanish basketball player in his debut acting role as...a Spanish basketball player. Maybe that's for the best, since sports stars are always best at playing themselves anyway. Well, almost always.
5	Warren Jeffs	1,047,458	He's the infamous polygamist leader of the controversial Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a sect of Mormon fundamentalism which has often been identified as a white supremacist cult, who was charged with child sexual assault for forcing underage girls in the Church to marry adult men. Now, he's also one of the subjects of Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey, Netflix's newest addition to the "cult-o-mania" genre, which was released last week. What a career!
6	Top Gun: Maverick	1,014,701	The '80s classic at #21, about a fighter pilot named Maverick who gets the chance to train at the Navy's Fighter Weapons School, got a sequel in which he returns to the program to train new pilots. Even if it's gotten mostly rave reviews, not everyone is raving about it, as recent discussions about the film revolving around the possibility of it just being shiny military propaganda.
7	Vikram (2022 film)	866,225	Much like another 2022 release (#6), this film is a spiritual sequel to its namesake 1986 film, and follows a retired secret agent trying to take down a drug syndicate. The film also kicks off a cinematic universe with a sequel to follow.
8	Deaths in 2022	865,951	Oh, it gets dark, it gets lonely On the other side from you...
9	Stranger Things (season 4)	812,660	Even if the eagerly awaited second volume of this bingeable horror-drama's fourth season still hasn't come out three weeks after the release of the first one, that hasn't slowed down its momentum or caused it to lose its spot on this list. I haven't personally watched this much buzzed-about season, mainly because I have yet to watch the first three buzzed-about seasons, but one thing that does really excite me about the show is that it brought Kate Bush's melancholic masterpiece "Running Up That Hill" to number one on charts across the globe 37 years after its release. It has something to do with headphones, Velma, and the effects of bath salts, if I had to guess.
10	Stranger Things	767,554
11	Hustle (2022 film)	765,895	Adam Sandler has finally figured out how to make people stop hating him, and that's by not being in terrible movies. The SNL alum showed critics his serious side in 2002's Punch-Drunk Love, and he now stars in this self-produced film as a passionate but aging basketball scout who finds a muse in #4's rough-and-tumble baller and aspires to send him to the NBA; it's yielded Sandler some of the best reviews of his whole career.
12	The Boys (TV series)	751,006	Superheroes acting bad has become a common theme in media over the past few years (Invincible, anyone?) but the formula has seemingly been perfectly distilled in this series about a group of eponymous heroes who fight an evil corporation called the Seven and Vought, who represent the most popular superheroes and cover up their misdeeds. The third season has been coming out on Amazon Prime Video since the beginning of this month, and its fifth episode was released this week. It'll probably be on the list until the season finale.
13	2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine	627,256	Mariupol is still occupied, Ukraine is still trying to hold onto Sievierodonetsk after Russia failed to take Kyiv, and Russian filtration camps are popping up to deal with Russia's self-imposed problem of not knowing what to do with the people whose homes they destroyed. And that's what you missed on Glee.
14	Tom Cruise	587,031	This couch-jumping Scientologist plays Maverick in the aptly titled film at #6, which recently became the highest-grossing movie to star (or feature) him after earning $800 million worldwide.
15	Lightyear (film)	584,268	Houston, we have a problem. The origin story of animation's favorite spaceman isn't exactly taking flight at the box office, and its scene featuring a kiss between two women has caused its online ratings to crash into the atmosphere. The homophobic review bombing hasn't been Challenger levels of bad, but it's defined the discussion revolving around a film that has otherwise had little going for it.
16	Amanda Aldridge	580,691	A prolific Afro-British music teacher who turned to composing under the pseudonym Montague Ring after her singing career was stopped short by a case of laryngitis, Aldridge got a Google Doodle this week, honoring a piano recital she gave nearly a century ago this week.
17	Ezra Miller	574,900	Some recent revelations this week about this ~~quirky~~ creepy film star remind us that maybe we really do need to talk about Kevin. Concerns about Miller's violent behavior first arose two years ago after a video of them apparently chokeslamming a shellshocked fan surfaced on the socials, but it was quickly brushed off by most as a misunderstanding due to a lack of context. Starting with their controversial trip down south to Hawaii that quickly went even more south, during which Mx. Miller was arrested twice--once for throwing a chair at a woman during a party and another time for berating a group of innocent bar patrons while they sang karaoke--fans quickly learned that the aforementioned video required less context than they had hoped. Now, faster than the Flash himself, the issue has shifted from sporadic physical violence to prolonged psychological violence. Two allegations of grooming have come out against Miller, including one from the parents of a Native American activist who say Miller met their child at 12 years old during the Standing Rock protests, and then proceeded to coerce them with promises of paid tuition and hard drugs all while physically abusing them. Miller has remained unfazed and untraceable, flouting court orders and posting memes about being untouchable on their recently deleted Instagram account, but the whole scandal has given the Warner Bros. hot flashes.
18	List of NBA champions	565,988	They're playing basketball We love that basketball They're playing basketball We love that basketball
19	2022 FIFA World Cup	533,936	Ah, fútbol. You either love it, hate it, or feel any number of other ways about it in between those two. But no matter how you feel about it, it's impossible not to get a little giddy with excitement when the world's biggest sporting event comes around, even if its governing body has a lot to answer for. Thankfully for anyone who gets a little too excited about it, we've got some time before this year's Global Utensil rolls around, but that doesn't mean footie fanatics aren't racing to find out more about Qatar's edition of the event after the final lineup for the Cup was confirmed this week.
20	The Quarry (video game)	503,978	Over half a decade after Until Dawn took the live-action point-and-click survival horror of Senate scourge Night Trap and blew it up to super massive proportions, Supermassive Games returns with its similarly Hollywood-esque successor, in which a group of counselors become stranded at their summer camp and players must make all the right choices to keep them alive. Even with a cast made up of a comparable amount of A-listers (David Arquette, Ariel Winter, and Brenda Song are just a few of the familiar faces who star in The Quarry), the triple-A slasher hasn't made as much of a splash as the original, though critics and Let's Play-ers seem to be plenty enthused about it nonetheless.
21	Top Gun	502,015	See: #6. Or you can watch it again, if you need a refresher.
22	Golden State Warriors	494,394	Won the NBA finals this week, making #2 an MVP in a career first and adding them to #18 yet again, while also bringing some attention to #25's skills on the court.
23	Val Kilmer	484,625	Plays Iceman, Maverick's once-rival, opposite #14 in #6, reprising his role from #21.
24	Ștefania Mărăcineanu	477,175	The page for this Romanian physicist doesn't provide too much info on her, but that didn't stop Google from giving her a Doodle this week for what would be her 140th birthday. She's best known for her contributions to fellow physicist Irène Joliot-Curie's work, which earned Jolie-Curie a Nobel Prize, while Mărăcineanu's findings were sadly brushed aside.
25	Andrew Wiggins	464,437	Finally driving Amber Heard and that lawsuit away from this list is this small forward for #22 who won his first NBA championship this week alongside #2.

Exclusions

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.