The day that marks one month from the beginning of the ‘OT’ of the ‘Prime Time era’although the platform has not provided data on the audience that the program is reaching, something that its colleagues do not do either (despite the fact that Netflix has taken a step announcing that it will publish a report), it wanted to share the success it is achieving with voting and in social networks.
Hey, @OT_Official After 22 years, are the records going to stop at some point? 🤩 Thank you to all the people who are part of this family, as always and as never before 💙 #OT2023 pic.twitter.com/UqNQILFZ99
— Prime Video Spain (@PrimeVideoES) December 20, 2023
Thus, on Monday the 18th, the day the fourth gala was offered, the voting record through the app of Operación Triunfo since it was implemented in 2017, with 4.55 million votes during voting week (the number has been increasing week after week) and also the historical record with one million votes in the app in less than 24 hours (more votes have been registered than ever in that period).
Likewise, last week it was reached the consumption record of live audience in the YouTube channel, also since it began in 2017 to learn about the day-to-day life of the winners at the Academy, with 143,000 users concurrently connected during distribution of gala 4 themesa moment highly anticipated by talent fans because they know the songs they will sing and, no less important, who will compose the duos and trios.
As for the #OT2023 TikTok, star social network in this type of content, have been obtained 1 billion views in less than four weeks and the ‘hashtags’ related to ‘Operación Triunfo’ have achieved the first position in the X trends list every Monday during the galas and occupied the list of 12 complete trends during galas 3 and 4. Which means that the program is very alive.
The contestants
That it is very alive and that the contestants, 16 when they entered the Academy and 13 after the fourth gala (with the expulsion of Denna, after Suzete and Omar) are very loved by the fans, since in addition to offering performances of a very high level (the jury has it very difficult and not only the relentless Concha Buika, who says things without a filter, receives criticism) also represent the diversity of gender identity typical of this generation. “There are even some heterosexuals,” Paul from Granada joked after a talk about this matter that allowed them to open up a lot about this aspect.
But they also represent the disorder and lack of discipline in the household chores that characterizes the Generation Z to which they belong, an aspect with which many young people will feel identified and that has upset Noemí Galera, the director of the Academy. To the point that she has gone so far as to declare that in 22 years she had not seen anything like it. Galera, who acts as ‘mother by delegation’ of the triumphs during the confinement, has had to intervene several times to end this disaster, but also to comfort in times of depression and of suspected bullying a topic that has motivated a talk to raise awareness.
The changes
Because the team is very attentive to the needs of the winners and also of the viewers, which shows that, after listening to them on the networks, they have decided, in addition to saving Galera the embarrassing moment of saying goodbye to the expelled contestant by listing the benefits of the device that I had just given him, not make them expelled have to stay in the post-galahaving to hide his deep pain, and has cut off the coldness of farewell of the first expelled, recovering the line of companions to say goodbye (with their best friend or someone ‘very special’ as the final dish, something that adds a lot of emotion) while their song plays in the background, and wait for a family member (Omar’s sister and Denna’s father were the first) to give him a hug at that hard moment.
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Little by little, he returns to being the ‘OT’ that we all remember, with their love affairs (starting with that of Chenoa and David Bisbal from the first edition and ending with that of Hugo Cobo and Eva, in the 2020 edition) which now becomes complicated not only because there are couples waiting outside, but because sometimes it would imply coming out in public. Part of the salsa, come on, of a ‘talent’ that not only lives off luxury performances, although this year there are more of them than ever, which means that, despite the fact that due to his personality there are already favorites, such as Chiara, Martín or Beait is impossible to predict the winner.