Each year, Wikipedia reports which articles had the most views. Usually, the people with the most popular articles are politicians/royalty, athletes, or Elon Musk. But sometimes someone else gets on the list, and I think that's a fun thing to try to predict!
This question will resolve based on Wikipedia's official reporting of the most read articles in 2024. It will resolve to the individual human with the most popular article who is not primarily a politician/royal/athlete/Elon Musk.
In 2023 this was J. Robert Oppenheimer, followed by Taylor Swift and Matthew Perry.
In 2022 this was Jeffrey Dahmer, followed by Amber Heard and Johnny Depp.
In 2021 this was DMX, followed by Richard Ramirez and Dwayne Johnson.
In 2020 this was Sushant Singh Rajput, followed by Chadwick Boseman and Jeffrey Epstein.
In 2019 this was Ted Bundy, followed by Freddie Mercury and Billie Eilish.
In 2018 this was Freddie Mercury, followed by Stephen Hawking and Cardi B
I've added a few plausible answers to get us started, but it seems to me the winner of this market often comes out of nowhere so I encourage you to add your own.
You can also bet on the version of this question for current month here:
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1.00@Joshua just confirming. since the Lyle and Erik Menendez page talks about two people it won't count towards the individual person leaderboard?
@RichardK It’s because you bought no shares in other which gives you yea shares in everything else once a new option is added. It doesn’t give you no shares in the new option because then you would benefit by adding bad options that people bet down.
@Joshua I don't care, he could have been #1 in 2023. This was a statement, not a bet to make profit.
That's a politician! Gonna edit this to Invalid Answer haha.
Also note that this information is public, so we probably will have a good idea as the year goes on.
This page can show you the top viewed articles of each day.
There's a biopic coming out about her sometime this year. It's already stirring controversy and it's not even out, so there's a possibility here