TV viewership and Social Media: popularity of women's gymnastics

[Iminhanoi]

Many statistics (on Social Media, Tv viewership) showing that female gymnastics maybe more popular than male:


Female gymnasts dominate in Instagram, Tiktok:
Very few male gymnasts get 1 million followers on Instagram. But a lot female gymnasts can get millions of followers on Instagram (Simone Biles 12.8 million, Rebeca Andrade 12 milllion, Sunisa Lee 3.4 million, Shawn Johnson 4.3 million).

Many posts of Simone Biles and Rebeca Andrade on Instagram get million of likes. Some of their posts have been received up to 3-6 million likes.




Female gymnastics get more views on TV viewership:
According to NBC, the women team final of Olympic Paris 2024 averaged 12.7 million.



Female gymnastics get more views on Youtube:
Katelyn Ohashi haven’t competed on any Olympic; but she has been phenomenal on social media. Videos and Short videos of her performances gain total of billion views on YouTube. No male gymnasts get as many as views like her.

On official YouTube channel of Olympics:

• The replay of Women Balance Beam final of London 2012 receive 40 million views
• the replay of Women UB final of London 2012 get 19 million views
• a video of Simone Biles’s routines get 21 million views
• a video of Nadia Comaneci’s 10 point routine get 20 million views
• a video of Olga Korbut’s routine get 16 million views
• most viewed video of Men Gymnastics on YouTube channel of Olympics is men parallel bars final in Rio with 7.5 million views

On short videos of Olympics YouTube channel:

• a short video of Aly Raisman’s parents watched her UB routine get 80 million views
• a short video of Olga Korbut’s routine get 46 million views
• a short video of Karin Janz’s routine get 23 million views
• another short video of Olga Korbut’s routine get 13 million views
• a short video of Lilia Podkopayeva’s balance beam routine get 6.5 million views
• most viewed short video of Male Artistic Gymnastics (not count trampoline) is Igor Cassina’s Horizontal Bar with 3.8 million views

 

[Denn]

I don't understand why this is even a question. Women gymnasts are WAY more popular. We're talking a couple orders of magnitude in fact!

Just for a quick comparison:
Ian Gunther has 0.50 million viewers
Sam Mikulak has 0.20 million viewers
Kohei Uchimura has 0.02 million viewers
Khoi Young has 0.14 million viewers
Shinnosuke Oka has 0.10 million viewers

https://www.instagram.com/kohei_198913/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/shinnosuke_1031/

https://www.instagram.com/iandgunther/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/khoi.young/?hl=en

Oka is a legit star now — triple Olympic Champion — and has 1/100 the followers that Rebeca Andrade has.

 

[rlayt]

Frederick Richard only has 694,000 on IG and he’s one of the most popular USA men. He has more on TikTok though.

 

[Iminhanoi]

With 40 million views, the women balance beam final of London 2012 is second most viewed video of competing events on official YouTube Chanel Olympic; only behind Usain Bolt’s

 

[KathySantoni]

On YouTube channel of Olympics, the replay of Women Beam Final 2012 gained 40 million views, while UB women final 2012 gain 19 million views

Oh sorry, I love that BB final and have it on loop when I’m in the kitchen. That should account for the extra 21 million views.

 

[Iminhanoi]

Counted the views of Katelyn Ohashi’s performances on YouTube:

247 million

43 million

393 million

56 million

26 million


=756 million from only 5 videos on YouTube. Will easily over 1 billion if I count for 20 videos of her performances

 

[Hatsumomo]

What is the point you're going for here? Women's gymnastics is far more popular here in the USA than men's. Especially since the women's team will come home with multiple medals while at best, the men are fighting for bronze. And before Stephen Nedoroscik, the last time the men's team had any sort of pop culture impact was 2008 (which incidentally was the last time they won a team medal before Paris) and it was using Kevin Tan's surname as a verb for fucking up (though this was mainly on Oh No They Didn't).

 

[Iminhanoi]

A video of Sunisa Lee’s routine get nearly 10 million views on YouTube

 

[JaJa]

A video of Simone’s biography gain 21 million views on YouTube channel of Olympic.
While a video of Nadia Comenaci routine get 20 million; and another video of Olga Korbut get 16 million views.

No male gymnasts do so.

Reiterating Denn's initial queery -- why is this even a question???? We all know that WAG is FAR more popular than MAG. And you did not need us to tell you that. So what is it you are trying to elicit here? (Scratching my head)

 

[Sasha]

On YouTube channel of Olympics, the replay of Women Beam Final 2012 gained 40 million views, while UB women final 2012 gain 19 million views

That's frankly an insult to the 2012 UB lineup.

 

[RedBirdie]

Reiterating Denn's initial queery -- why is this even a question???? We all know that WAG is FAR more popular than MAG. And you did not need us to tell you that. So what is it you are trying to elicit here? (Scratching my head)

Feels like a gymnastics newbie with a poor command of English.

 

[JaJa]

Feels like a gymnastics newbie with a poor command of English.

maybe. It was just so odd. And all that data on people's likes on Instagram? I thought it rang a bit disingenuous.

 

[makam]

MAG beats WAG in Japan, right? Maybe a few other countries like Turkyie? But overall, WAG wins the popularity contest.

 

[Iminhanoi]

MAG beats WAG in Japan, right? Maybe a few other countries like Turkyie? But overall, WAG wins the popularity contest.

Japan is most sexiest Asian country, Japanese people don’t watch female sports.

Are Chinese people interest Chinese female gymnastics?

As I know Chinese people love female sports. According to nytimes, In Olympic Beijing 2008, a women weightlifting final watched by 155 million Chinese people, and a women table tennis gold medal match watched by 330 million Chinese.

I can’t find any statistics show the views of Gymnastics events of Olympic 2008 in China. But I think roughly 80-120 million.

Chinese people so much love diving. Are they interesting Gymnastics? Gymnastics and Diving are quite similar.

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

Interestingly, the top British MAGs have more followers on Instagram than the women. Jake has 400k and Max 300k, whereas Becky and Jess are only just over 100. Max is an outlier in terms of success, so arguably a poor comparison, but Jess has won more than Jake.