Cynical Zynternet spectacle reached sixty million mainstream households by late 2024

Evidence

By late 2024, however, Zynternet culture found a successful pathway into the mainstream through sheer cynical spectacle. The boxing match between Jake Paul and fifty-eight-year-old retired champion Mike Tyson demonstrated that male-dominated online culture, for all its irony and self-referential absurdity, could now command an enormous audience. Netflix streamed the fight to sixty million households. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 827

Categorization

• CANDY: Sixty million households streaming a Paul-Tyson staged farce is a fun, tweetable sign of the era.