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2026-02-10 -Great Cultural Revolution
Gay Bunny Wipes Her Instagram Account After Super Bowl 2026 Halftime Show Performance
[Eonline] Hours after the Grammy winner dominated the Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime show Feb. 8, she wiped his Instagram feed clean of every post.How odd.
And the 31-year-old didn’t stop there. Indeed, Bad Bunny (born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio) also deleted his profile picture, as well as unfollowed every profile he used to interact with. The only trace that the Puerto Rican native left was a link to his 2025 album Debí Tirar Más Fotos in his bio.
Perhaps he fears the Donald’s revenge, or something equally silly.
As for why she made the drastic change to her social media page—and whether it’s a hint at new music to come—that remains to be seen. However, the move comes after his culturally rich Super Bowl halftime show at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., where the Seattle Seahawks beat the New England Patriots.
The Super Bowl committee is preening itself on trolling the MAGA crowd. Every reaction we give them makes them happier. A better answer is to laugh at them. The commercials were mostly unmemorable, for those who like offense it was a really boring game (though the defense guys are happier), and the Turning Point USA alternate halftime show had millions of watchers, which isn’t bad for a first time effort opposite the big game. Then there are these:





Factually has early statistics:
Executive summary
Super Bowl LX’s preliminary audience looks smaller than the record 127.7 million viewers reported for last year’s game but remains well above virtually all other TV events; Sports Media Watch reported an average of about 114.8 million viewers for the Patriots–Seahawks telecast, while multiple outlets cautioned that official Nielsen totals for 2026 were still pending [1]. Measurement changes in recent years — expansion of out‑of‑home counts and the shift toward “Big Data + Panel” — complicate direct year‑over‑year comparisons and mean headline records should be parsed carefully [1] [3].

1. What the raw numbers say: 2026 vs. recent highs
Early reporting placed Patriots–Seahawks at roughly 114.8 million average viewers, nearly 13 million fewer than last season’s all‑time Super Bowl peak of 127.7 million for Super Bowl LIX [1] [4]. Several outlets and aggregators still project a Super Bowl audience north of 125 million across platforms for 2026, reflecting expectations rather than a single, consolidated Nielsen release [4] [5].

3. Halftime and ancillary programming: where the biggest spikes occur
Halftime continues to be a ratings accelerator: Billboard/Nielsen reporting put Kendrick Lamar’s halftime last year at 133.5 million viewers — higher than the game itself — and recent halftime performances have ranked among the biggest single telecast draws of the 21st century [6]. Marketing and entertainment coverage predicted Bad Bunny’s show could move the needle again for 2026, even as Turning Point USA’s alternate halftime feed drew only low‑millions on YouTube, peaking around 4–5 million and finishing with roughly 12 million total views across channels — a fraction of the NBC broadcast audience [7] [8].



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Posted by Woodrow 2026-02-10 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1852 views ]  Top

1 20% wanted fucktwit and started cancelling orders and called her racist? There is the number of people that actually are doing this from the US population in total. Ignore those idiots. You can't shame them, but man do they hate being ignored.
Posted by DarthVader 2026-02-10 00:13||   2026-02-10 00:13|| Front Page Top

2 Bad Bunny wipes Instagram account after mixed Super Bowl performance reactions
Posted by Skidmark 2026-02-10 00:48||   2026-02-10 00:48|| Front Page Top

3 Culturally, the NFL will struggle to offend more viewers next year. They will need to have some emergency meetings immediately if they hope to offend more people next year.
Posted by Super Hose 2026-02-10 06:29||   2026-02-10 06:29|| Front Page Top

4 As of this comment time.
I can swear on a bible, I don't even know who won or care anymore.

Our family did not watch the game and nor have we turned on, the Winter Olympics.

Like many, we all tired of the political, perverted BS we are being slapped with, or fed by sports.

We streamed watched a few Old 1980-90 British TV sitcoms and an old Movie called Sgt. York.

If and when sports quits taking a knee, tossing rubber male anatomy parts on the playing courts, and can make up its mind what is a Male or Female. Then maybe we sneak a peep.

Posted by NN2N1 2026-02-10 07:11||   2026-02-10 07:11|| Front Page Top

5 Inflation is actually a resulting effect of the 'deflation' in value of the US dollar. A strong dollar is the best antidote for inflation. I believe gov't borrowing and debt are essentially to blame. It's been going on like this since WWII or a little before. Roosevelt (a democrat who would still be president if he were alive), took us off the Gold Standard in 1933. The paper is no longer backed up by actual gold. Gold just went over $5000. per ounce. When Roosevelt took us off the standard, an ounce of gold was about $24. The gov't just prints more paper when they need it. Paper money has not kept up with reality. There's no printing more gold or silver.

The latest monetary scam is the invisible Bitcoin, but I won't get into that.

At the Herb and Delores level; borrowing to pay off a credit card only works if you reduce or limit current spending. If you just keep on spending, you're playing a self-imposed ponzi game and shi**ing yourself. The gov't borrows from one credit card to pay off another...kicking the debt can down the road and siphoning off or stealing along the way. The big banks love it, the interest they charge is their cost or fee for doing business and their profit. You want to borrow more money? We'll see what we can do.

No 'higher math' involved that I can see, only common sense, which appears to be in very short supply in Washington.

Posted by Besoeker 2026-02-10 07:31||   2026-02-10 07:31|| Front Page Top

6 Nice choice in movies NN2N1. May I also recommend:

The Quiet Man
Mr. Roberts
Forbidden Planet
LA Confidential

Have a lot more recommendations but these are some of my top picks...
Posted by Warthog 2026-02-10 08:12||   2026-02-10 08:12|| Front Page Top

7 We make a point to watch this one at least once a year. The political parallels continue to be amazing and timeless.

Posted by Besoeker 2026-02-10 08:21||   2026-02-10 08:21|| Front Page Top

8 We've been watching the Olympic highlights, skipping thru the commercials and talking heads. The figure skating is amazing and the skiing reminds me of what I enjoyed 40 years ago. The sound of the skis chattering in turns still brings back the thrill.

I must be getting senile. I don't remember enjoying previous Winter Olympics as much. I've somehow avoided anyone not thrilled to be there, proud of their team.
Posted by Bobby 2026-02-10 09:08||   2026-02-10 09:08|| Front Page Top

9 Ocasio, Ocasio... now where have I heard that name before...?
Posted by Mercutio 2026-02-10 09:22||   2026-02-10 09:22|| Front Page Top

10 Haven't watched football in 7 or 8 years and I used to be a rabid fan...
Posted by Mercutio 2026-02-10 09:23||   2026-02-10 09:23|| Front Page Top

11 #8 - I prefer the winter Olympics. Love curling
Posted by Frank G 2026-02-10 09:26||   2026-02-10 09:26|| Front Page Top

12 I wanted Bad Bunny to do 'Little Rabbit Foo Foo' at halftime.

Sadly disappointing.
Posted by Lord Garth 2026-02-10 09:27||   2026-02-10 09:27|| Front Page Top

13 Otherwords:

As a fellow Puerto Rican, Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show was personal
Posted by Skidmark 2026-02-10 10:49||   2026-02-10 10:49|| Front Page Top

14 also deleted his profile picture,

He or She, Eonline, She or he?
Posted by swksvolFF 2026-02-10 11:15||   2026-02-10 11:15|| Front Page Top

15 Breitbart has a write-up about the TPUSA show and the hour-long show here. Take a look and help drive up their numbers even higher. ;-)
Posted by trailing wife 2026-02-10 11:25||   2026-02-10 11:25|| Front Page Top

16 Reddit was covered with stories about how awesome the halftime show was. Strong indicator that it was particularly bad.
Posted by Megabyses 2026-02-10 12:18||   2026-02-10 12:18|| Front Page Top

17 Warthog, our refrigerator calendar this year is scenes from The Quiet Man...
Posted by Glenmore 2026-02-10 12:55||   2026-02-10 12:55|| Front Page Top

18 Alternative halftime show seems to have drawn about 10% of the audience, pretty good considering it required actual effort to watch rather than inertia. And had to be a big bargain for advertisers...
Posted by Glenmore 2026-02-10 12:58||   2026-02-10 12:58|| Front Page Top

19 I watched Bad Bunny at a Super Bowl party. I wanted to see and hear what it was all about. You'd think a Latin beat would be more exciting but he managed to make it bland and boring. Dunno about the lyrics as I'm not that good with Spanish. The set was lavish and there must have been a couple hundred dancers but they could not make up for the disappointing music. Then there was the Michael Jackson style crotch rubbing which was highly offensive. It might have been mildly amusing to certain types of audiences in a Puerto Rican nightclub but it was inappropriate for American network television with kids watching. It should have been rated R. Any high school marching band would have been better. Piss on the NFL if that's what they want to impose on America. I miss watching a good football game. Maybe next fall I'll walk up to the local high school on Friday nights.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2026-02-10 13:13||   2026-02-10 13:13|| Front Page Top

20 The live-action take of a corporate focus session is what I'm hearing.

Like, put the number of tropes in that budweiser ad to shame.

The dancing around the pronoun issue has also been Michael Jackson worthy.
Posted by swksvolFF 2026-02-10 13:37||   2026-02-10 13:37|| Front Page Top

21 Thank you TW/editors for the article clean up and additional stories!
Posted by Woodrow 2026-02-10 14:17||   2026-02-10 14:17|| Front Page Top

22 You are very welcome, dear Woodrow.

swksvolFF, the pronoun silliness was all Woodrow editorializing. The original article stuck to the masculine.
Posted by trailing wife 2026-02-10 14:24||   2026-02-10 14:24|| Front Page Top

23 Babylon Bee: Support For ICE Skyrockets To 99% After Halftime Show
Posted by Frank G 2026-02-10 14:41||   2026-02-10 14:41|| Front Page Top

24 Convincing; that was a thing not too long ago as well as wearing a dress to the performance.
Posted by swksvolFF 2026-02-10 15:40||   2026-02-10 15:40|| Front Page Top

25 Decency was missing, but so was the Patriots' offensive line.

The classical salsa part was quite nice, and the were some endearing moments. I certainly could have done without the crotch grabbing and the - umm - singing. And I do understand Spanish.
Posted by European Conservative 2026-02-10 17:48||   2026-02-10 17:48|| Front Page Top

26 People used to say that Defense wins championships. We have return to that factory reset.
Posted by Super Hose 2026-02-10 18:30||   2026-02-10 18:30|| Front Page Top

27 For more great Brit TV:
Foyles War
Danger UXB
Posted by Knuckles Grundy1702 2026-02-10 19:46||   2026-02-10 19:46|| Front Page Top

28 NFL has become anti-American.
Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2026-02-10 23:32||   2026-02-10 23:32|| Front Page Top

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