{"id":1437464,"date":"2022-04-14T11:14:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T15:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1437464"},"modified":"2022-04-14T11:14:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T15:14:38","slug":"eight-obscure-things-more-common-than-people-watching-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eight-obscure-things-more-common-than-people-watching-cnn\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Obscure Things More Common Than People Watching CNN+"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feight-obscure-things-more-common-than-people-watching-cnn%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1437464&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>It was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/curtis-houck\/2022\/04\/12\/you-hate-see-it-huge-cuts-are-reportedly-way-cnn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed<\/a> on Tuesday that, according to CNBC, CNN+ has fewer than 10,000 active users on the streaming service a scant two weeks since its launch. Add in a report of looming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/curtis-houck\/2022\/04\/12\/you-hate-see-it-huge-cuts-are-reportedly-way-cnn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">budget cuts and layoffs<\/a> and CNN and its executives found a way to make the brand even more pathetic and launch something even more of a failure than the parent cable network.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To reiterate the insanity of this entire venture, consider the fact that CNN thought there would be a robust market paying $5.99 a month to watch the likes of Brian Stelter, Chris Wallace, Jemele Hill, and Anderson Cooper when practically nobody watches them on regular cable?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With there being more pagans and witches <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/rich-noyes\/2019\/05\/03\/nine-things-are-now-more-popular-pitiful-cnn#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">out there than CNN primetime viewers<\/a>, we saw this coming from miles away.<\/p>\n<p>To illustrate how small that population truly is, we put together a list of items that are more popular than CNN+:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u25a0\u00a0\u00a0A Kickstarter campaign for potato salad <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/zackdangerbrown\/potato-salad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made more money<\/a> (over $55,000) than CNN+ did from their first month of subscription fees ($2.99\/mo) from active users<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0\u00a0\u00a0In the U.S. alone, 10,386 people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/weird-causes-of-death-2016-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">died by falling out of bed<\/a> between 1999 and 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0\u00a0\u00a0An Instagram account called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/daily_otis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@daily_otis <\/a>that posts this same picture of a CGI cow every day \u2014 and nothing else\u00a0\u2014 has 48,200 followers (as of this blog&#8217;s publication), which is nearly five times as many followers as CNN+<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0\u00a0\u00a0According to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tuvalu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia<\/a>, the tiny island of Tuvalu has more residents (11,900) than people who actively use CNN+<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0\u00a0\u00a0A YouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PLOPygVcaVE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video of paint drying<\/a> (and that\u2019s it) has more viewers (nearly 1.1 million) than CNN+<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0\u00a0\u00a0During Christmas, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.norad.mil\/About-NORAD\/NORAD-Tracks-Santa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">handles over 130,000 phone calls<\/a> from children on the whereabouts of Santa Claus<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0\u00a0\u00a0Over 118,000,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/mmo-population.com\/r\/wow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">are estimated<\/a> to be subscribed to play World of Warcraft, a popular video game.<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0\u00a0\u00a0In 2016, the Australian Bureau of Statistics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abs.gov.au\/AUSSTATS\/abs@.nsf\/mediareleasesbyReleaseDate\/8497F7A8E7DB5BEFCA25821800203DA4?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a> there are &#8220;close to 48,000&#8221; Jedi in the country<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ouch!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was revealed on Tuesday that, according to CNBC, CNN+ has fewer than 10,000 active users on the streaming service a scant two weeks since its launch. 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