His first show brought in over 26 million “video views,” which is a Twitter metric that records a view as anyone who watches a video for more than 2 seconds. While the metric’s reliability has been questioned, it has nevertheless declined significantly since the show’s launch, with Carlson’s most recent show only getting 3.8 million video views, marking a drop of 86 percent.
All he had to do was nothing and he would have still been collecting checks from Fox, but nope. He decided to throw in with Elon’s Twitter. Hilarious.