Barbecue Cowboy

VLC has over 6 billion downloads, obviously there are people who downloaded it multiple times, but that’s getting close to averaging one per person in existence.

6 billion download announcement (eventually leads to X/twitter): https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/vlc-tops-6-billion-downloads-previews-ai-generated-subtitles/#%3A~%3Atext=VLC+media+player%2C+the+popular%2Can+AI-powered+subtitle+system.

Not directly comparable, but guesses at the number of Linux servers out there are in the 10s-100s of millions.

It’s an arguable point, but unless you get weird with what you quantify as Linux, I think VLC might honestly have more users.

Not sure if this is optimistic or not, I feel like it’s going to suck for awhile until we just don’t trust anything digital ever again. There will just be an assumption that anything digital is not real. We’ll go back to “If it’s on the internet, it must be true” being a joke. Also not sure if that’s a good or bad thing.

Or Red Shoe Diaries, people kinda forgot that his big role before X-files was just softcore porn.