Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/May 9 to 15, 2021

The Top 25 Report

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Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (May 9 to 15, 2021)

Prepared with commentary by Mcrsftdog, SSSB, Igordebraga

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On May 2020, Elon Musk topped our Report for welcoming a son with a weird name to the world. One year later, here's the billionaire again at #1! And sadly the other familiar big subject of the week is that of Middle Eastern conflicts.

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Elon Musk	2,023,222	Billionaire Memeguy hosted Saturday Night Live on May 8. His fans thought his was the best episode ever; his detractors thought it was as unfunny as anything modern SNL puts out. Musk also managed to crash two cryptocurrencies in one week—doge- crashing after a (presumably failed) plug on SNL, and bit- crashing after Tesla announced it would no longer be accepted as payment.
2	State of Palestine	1,543,993	In the past week, protests over the eviction of Palestinians from Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, has escalated into countless missile strikes on the Gaza Strip. Some say that civilian deaths are an inevitable result of political power - and that's paraphrasing Bari Weiss defending Israel.
3	Israeli–Palestinian conflict	1,473,599
4	Israel	1,445,058
5	Hamas	1,206,073
6	Iron Dome	1,043,060
7	Gaza Strip	1,003,236
8	Jupiter's Legacy (TV series)	983,196	What if a superhero was morally grey? What if they, get this, killed people? That'd be crazy. Jupiter's Legacy, the first piece of media to explore this concept, premiered on Netflix on May 7.
9	Deaths in 2021	937,721	Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere Underneath my being is a road that disappeared Late at night I hear the trees, they're singing with the dead Overhead
10	Radhe (2021 film)	924,247	India has sadly been going through a huge spike in cases of the goddamned pandemic, so the latest Bollywood blockbuster had to be released digitally (though foreign markets got it in theaters).
11	Canelo Álvarez	894,865	At a May 8 match, Álvarez took the World Boxing Organization championship belt from Billy Joe Saunders.
12	Liz Cheney	823,887	Cheney, sole Representative for Wyoming, was ousted from House Republican leadership this week; such are the consequences of not falling lock-step with a failed President's conspiracy theory. If you're a liberal and want to glorify Liz, you should probably do some reading on her father Dick—one of the main architects of the Iraq War.
13	2021 Israel–Palestine crisis	765,162	One sad certainty about the Middle East is that whenever it seems like things calmed down, there will always emerge something to break the peace.
14	Resident Evil Village	759,949	The internet has an almost Freudian fascination with Lady Dimitrescu, a giant woman. If there's anything else to this game, I haven't seen it.
15	Al-Aqsa Mosque	727,631	It was the storming of the third holiest site in Islam, on the final Friday prayers of Ramadan, that prompted the ongoing crisis (#13) to new heights. When the site was set alight later in the week, Jewish Israelis were heard to be encouraging the fire, chanting what Yair Wallach called 'genocidal songs of vengeance'. Do they not realise that this adds fuel to the anti-semitism fire?
16	David Berkowitz	657,162	The "Son of Sam" murderer is the subject of the Netflix docuseries Sons of Sam.
17	Dogecoin	642,509	DOGE has been shooting for the moon for the past year. While it seemed like it was about to hit a conversion rate of 1 DOGE = 1 USD, it crashed while Elon (#1) was hosting SNL. Despite (or because of) the volatility, there are still people investing their real money for fake meme money. Musk also decided to fund a SpaceX mission with it!
18	Tawny Kitaen	617,451	Kitaen, probably best known for starring in four Whitesnake music videos, passed away on May 7. She was 59.
19	Mother's Day	611,854	Two holidays this past week: the former commemorating your mother, and the latter commemorating the end of Ramadan.
20	Eid al-Fitr	602,019
21	Asperger syndrome	600,906	In Musk's opening monologue on SNL, he said that he was the first person with Asperger's to host the show. While this isn't necessarily true—Dan Aykroyd having hosted in 2003—it prompted a conversation in the news media.
22	Halston	584,843	A Netflix miniseries, with Ewan McGregor portraying the mononymous fashion designer, premiered on Friday.
23	Invincible (TV series)	548,435	What if a superhero was morally grey? What if they, get this, killed people? That'd be crazy. Invincible, the first piece of media to explore this concept, finished its first season on Amazon Prime on April 29.
24	Mare of Easttown	511,992	HBO continues to air this show about Kate Winslet as detective Mare, who returns to Easttown Township to investigate a murder, and that in a reverse of television's usual viewership patterns actually increases its audience every week, having broken a million viewers with its fourth episode.
25	Spiral (2021 film)	504,940	In true horror movie tradition, the Saw movies just won't die. And the ninth (!) installment brought in some big actors (Chris Rock, Max Minghella, Marisol Nichols, and Samuel L. Jackson) to tell the story of someone copying the style of the Jigsaw Killer.

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.