Wikipedia readers turned to Obsession (2025 film) at 29x the usual rate

What this article is

Obsession is a 2025 American supernatural horror film written, directed, and edited by Curry Barker. The film follows Bear, a music store employee who buys a supernatural toy that grants his wish for his friend Nikki to fall in love with him, which makes her become obsessed. Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless, and Andy Richter appear in supporting roles.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 46 edits to this article on 2026-06-01, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Plot
• Critical response

What changed that day

The article lost 102 characters on balance that day. The largest single addition was 1,196 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-06-01 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.

How this was measured

Views are Wikimedia's own pageview counts for en.wikipedia, filtered to agent=user so automated traffic is excluded. The baseline is the median of the previous 60 days, which is used instead of the mean so that an earlier surge cannot flatten a later one. The multiple is the day's views divided by that median.