Sunday, August 4, 2013

Independence Day (1996 film)

As I suspected, more people tend to view the article for the 1996 film Independence Day around early July. The page view statistics, which I talked about a few posts ago, indicate that the article on the film gets huge spikes in traffic around July 4 and July 5. Interestingly, for both 2012 and 2013, more people viewed the article on July 5 than on July 4.

What could the reasons for this be? Too busy at a family cookout on the Fourth to be browsing the Internet? Too busy setting up illegal fireworks to bother researching the sordid production history of ID4? I'm picturing a scenario where hundreds of Americans with patriotic hangovers are suddenly reminded (while taking down there bunting) that there was a film where the White House got blown up, prompting them to rush to their computers for the maximum Roland Emmerich experience.

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