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Why has the Olympics gotten so much less popular?
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Date: February 16th, 2026 6:07 AM Author: 180 seedy theater Remember the 1992 Olympics? It was a huge cultural event in America. 1994 was such a big deal that Tonya Harding was willing to have Nancy Kerrigan taken out so she could get in. But something changed. Today, America barely pays attention to it. I was in line recently at an AT&T store and figure skating was on the TV. It was the first time I've watched it this year, other than maybe thay Lindsay Vonn clip. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49673509) |
Date: February 16th, 2026 6:26 AM Author: aromatic dragon Everyone in Amerikkka is beaten down and has tunnel vision. There’s no sense of national pride because everyday waking up in this country is torture. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49673514) |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 9:03 AM Author: Fuchsia zombie-like quadroon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49673635) |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 9:36 AM Author: Flickering principal's office becky (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49673690) |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 9:38 AM Author: amethyst godawful resort you should be beaten to death with a baseball bat you fat fuck (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49673695) |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 6:31 AM Author: Cobalt bearded address faggot firefighter Not sure about the numbers but the Olympics this year have been really fun to watch. The only issue is the time zone and the instant access to results. Makes it hard to watch “primetime” when you are already know the outcome. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49673516) |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 6:50 AM Author: Beta nighttime institution Winter Olympics are less popular ime (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49673521) |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 9:17 AM Author: Hateful wine pozpig yeah winter olympics are always WAY less popular than summer. the kerrigan vs harding storyline, or like michelle kwan, oksana bauil, etc - maybe some hockey games - those were highlights (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49673660) |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 6:52 AM Author: amethyst godawful resort Because network TV is dead? The super bowl is pretty much the only thing to have defied its decline, but that's a single event (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49673522) |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 9:08 AM Author: Rough-skinned Vigorous Office Turdskin This. In 92 we had to watch it. Now I can rewatch 80s comedies on YouTube. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49673641) |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 10:27 AM Author: Trip Know-it-all Corner Place Of Business (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49673756) |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 1:49 PM Author: Indigo sickened boiling water locale cr. tv used to be on all the time and the olympics were what people put on the communal screen when it was on. now everyone has their own personal screen. it's the same reason network news, espn, etc are dying. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49674216) |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 7:21 AM Author: navy territorial jap it champions fitness which is fascism and not OK (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49673535) |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 7:28 AM Author: Adventurous university halford fragmentation of culture. whatever was on network tv used to unify americans and was what everyone, for better or worse. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49673537) |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 7:40 AM Author: Cerise Stirring Shrine too much access has watered the whole thing down. used to be a real must watch event, you could only watch it by following whatever NBC put on. prime time olympics programs were appointment viewing. Now you can stream whatever you want at any time so the whole thing seems less special. also, we don't really have a culture of everyone watching the same prime time tv events anymore. even as recently as the 90s, the world series would rival super bowl tv ratings. not anymore. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49673546) |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 7:56 AM Author: electric hyperactive lay potus No delicious bunnies at halftimes
No delicious breeds |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 8:07 AM Author: amethyst godawful resort (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49673561) |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 8:54 AM Author: Mustard floppy bawdyhouse dog poop America is 60% brown people (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49673620) |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 9:09 AM Author: soul-stirring brilliant stead doctorate . (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49673643) |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 10:27 AM Author: silver antidepressant drug mental disorder (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49673757) |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 10:28 AM Author: wonderful skinny woman liquid oxygen . (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49673758) |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 12:33 PM Author: Stimulating cocky ticket booth pervert (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49673998) |
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Date: February 19th, 2026 8:52 PM Author: flatulent provocative philosopher-king station (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49681558) |
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Date: February 19th, 2026 10:29 PM Author: Excitant poppy indian lodge immigrant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49681724) |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 9:01 AM Author: Misanthropic self-absorbed giraffe meetinghouse Same as the superbowl.
It’s two things, one is the “Bowling Alone” decline of neighborhood parties and get together that gave people an excuse to watch these boring broadcasts in the first place.
The other is that almost all popular culture was cooped by shitlibs so many have no interest in turning on the halftime smut show etc. |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 9:34 AM Author: Frozen rigpig Social media distracting audience. Not letting it be live. The replay thing NBC dos is stupid shit. I remember waking up at 3AM and having buddies come over to watch international events like Olympics and World Cup. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49673688) |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 10:28 AM Author: silver antidepressant drug mental disorder "buddies cumming over at 3 am," he lisped (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49673759) |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 12:03 PM Author: ungodly black stage laser beams what events? sounds 180 for like a world cup final where you have some tie to a country playing(imagining some guidos going apeshit when zidane headbutted the italy dood) but otherwise that is some hardcore sportsnuttery (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49673919) |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 9:59 AM Author: Vivacious Site Tbf this is one of the more popular Winter Olympics in recent memory even if that isn't saying much (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49673728) |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 12:08 PM Author: ungodly black stage laser beams agree with poasts itt. people are just distracted and on their phones all the time.
i know my wife used to love figure skating, went to live events a couple times before we had kids. she didnt even know the olympics were happening when i mentioned the canadian curling cheating |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 12:24 PM Author: Red talented old irish cottage Because half the population in the US isn't American. Why would they care about the Olympics when their country isn't represented? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49673977) |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 12:25 PM Author: Vivacious Site They can go back to their countries and root for them from there (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49673979) |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 12:32 PM Author: Red talented old irish cottage Don't think India or Bangladesh competes much in the Winter Olympics (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49673995) |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 12:34 PM Author: Stimulating cocky ticket booth pervert Have been abroad since it started but in Europe it’s on every TV and people seem very into it. Also ticket sales IIRC were pretty good. I booked months ago and trying to get just one ticket for my gf to some events is proving difficult. Murica needs to turn it on and WIN to piss off these faggy europoors though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49674006) |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 2:05 PM Author: Carmine Supple Coldplay Fan Legal Warrant I was on vacation for the first few days and tried consuming it like NBC wants me to , just watching the nightly show and its so heavily edited and gay they show like 2 skiers complete runs. Then when I went back to normal life I'm on ipad and there are no clips on social media cause the IOC removes them so idk whats going on. I'm not gonna get a streaming app and watch skiing at 4 am live (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49674261) |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 2:07 PM Author: Trip Know-it-all Corner Place Of Business birdshits crashing out itt is fascinating. "too many browns in this country so I shan't be watching, dear." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49674270) |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 2:22 PM Author: Yapping Violent Blood Rage Karate another part of it is that the vast majority of America including whites outside of a few areas have never participated or even seen winter sports. this very much includes the vast majority of whites outside of the NE, California, and Upper Midwest
it is quite gay that this is the case. but it's true. this is prole nation man |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 3:42 PM Author: Mind-boggling Alcoholic Point Because Americans used to reflexively turn on the TV every night, and then they'd have 3 options, and the other 2 stations often showed reruns not to compete with the Olympics.
Now, people aren't even putting the TV on, and if they do, they're probably not instinctively putting on Peacock when they can watch literally 100,000 other shows |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 4:07 PM Author: hairless patrolman Probably the best answer. Reminds me of an article from Lester Bangs about when Elvis died, where he basically says a common culture is eroding (this is 1977) and Elvis was one of the few cultural things everyone had an opinion on. "We will continue to fragment in this manner, because solipsism holds all the cards at present; it is a king whose domain engulfs even Elvis’s. But I can guarantee you one thing: we will never again agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis. So I won’t bother saying good-bye to his corpse. I will say good-bye to you." |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 4:22 PM Author: ungodly black stage laser beams 180. never been that into lester bangs but i read that one a long time ago and always thought it was great (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49674555) |
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Date: February 16th, 2026 4:09 PM Author: amethyst godawful resort (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49674531) |
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Date: February 18th, 2026 10:21 PM Author: Mind-boggling Alcoholic Point I actually realized the biggest reason is the tape delay coupled with the internet.
The past nights I was going to passively watch, but i already knew the quad god lost, the old bobsled chick won, and eileen gu, etc.
For the events not spoiled, Chuck Klosterman once did a good job explaining why live sports are so compelling, but a game you recorded is not - even if you manage to avoid knowing the score.
In live sports, there's a sense that the outcome of the game matters - and the world will somehow be different depending on who wins. But if you're watching something that occurred 8 hours ago, then obviously whatever happened that you're watching didn't really matter.
Another huge part of live sports is the element that something fantastic could happen at any time. A basketball player's leg could snap in half, the players could fight each other or fight fans, the power could go out, etc. But as Klosterman puts it, if you're watching something on tape, you know that nothing incredible happened because you haven't heard anything about it.
Great example of this is Lindsey Vonn - a huge element of all these winter sports is someone could crash and die. That happened to Vonn, and we all found out about it in our social feeds in 5 minutes.
So why am I tuning in to primetime NBC tonight? The media already told me all the interesting results. And due to the fact that i haven't seen anything about the other events, i can safely assume nothing intersting happens in them. |
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Date: February 19th, 2026 8:44 PM Author: Mind-boggling Alcoholic Point Does not help that anyone with an iPhone got the results of women's figure skating spoiled today. I'm sure NBC is pissed (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49681543) |
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Date: February 19th, 2026 10:28 PM Author: Offensive useless brakes I have an iPhone and didn't get said results. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5835344&forum_id=2#49681721) |
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Date: February 18th, 2026 10:30 PM Author: Ocher national The ratings have been pretty good this year actually.
https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/nbc-announces-record-setting-viewership-005112838.html |