The fight.

I didn’t watch the Tyson/Paul Netflix fight on Sunday, but I did watch people watching the fight. That was weird. I’m not a huge boxing fan, but I will make an effort to see the big fights. I didn’t make the effort with this because it was just a bullshit marketing exercise.

It must have worked, though, because I was walking through the city on Sunday when it was happening, and I saw half a dozen different sets of people gathered around their phones to stream it.

The most interesting thing to me? Only one group, a bunch of 20-something guys, looked remotely like the audience for a boxing match.

Everyone else could have been a randomly selected subset of TikTok casuals. Two of the groups were all women, all Gen Z. I don’t know much about Gen Z but I’ve never taken them for fans of bloodsport. I’m not sure they’d even know who Mike Tyson was. That dude in the old YouTube clips who bit that other dude’s ear off?

So, I guess the fight's success —in streaming terms, it was massive—was down to YouTuber Jake Paul. I don’t know what this means. Perhaps it exp,ains Trump? I dunno.

These days I mostly just watch the world go by and I go, “Huh? What?”