Not optimistic. I know it's a big jump in numbers from what conservative legacy media put out, but bear with me.

American politics are a spectacle because of stuff like this. Eventually, a really good portion of the internet connected population of the world is going to hear about this and are going to be curious. Like maybe 10-50%. And if Trump actually sues for a cartoon saying he has a tiny penis but airing a real life AI video of him naked in the desert and "showing" it, that number is going to go up and possibly break out of online media.

6 million people watched it upon initial airing on cable on that timeslot. The population of the usa is like 340 million. If you halve that for age and demographics, that's still like 170 million people in the usa alone.

Now, I'd be willing to bet that in the usa, the number who have already seen the clip is closer to 170M than it is 6M, and is only going higher. Start including Canada, Mexico, parts of Europe, Japan, NZ, and anybody else that remotely pays attention to the most ridiculous parts of US politics, and the pool of possible people has grown far beyond the 340M population of the USA and that initial 6M estimate put out by legacy media, who undoubtedly and demonstrably has a conflict of interest and is conservative owned.

The only real way to remotely know would be to start doing surveys, but that would absolutely affect the number. "Do you know about the South Park episode clip where they say he has a teeny tiny penis and aired a clip using AI that showed him wandering through the desert naked and even showed his penis and that now Donald Trump wants to sue them for defamation?" 😂😂😂😂

If they didn't know, imagine their reaction and immediate curiosity. It's ridiculous.

Anyway, I do think that eventually, especially if Trump actually sues them, that the exposure numbers, either through watching the clip or meme form, could get over a billion. Because remember, the population of the world right now is like 8 to 8.2Billion people, and a good portion of that is internet connected. You can extrapolate from there.

Optimistic would be "everyone internet connected will hear about this". And while maybe that would be eventually possible if no scandals ever again happen and everybody suddenly had no other problems and cared about us politics, but that just can't be the case and isn't reality. But it's also extreme to underestimate how fast these things move and how easily people see and show each other them and search them out. The MSNBC YouTube video covering it alone already has like 4 million views.