re: Do you think Kid Rock is going to put a dent in the Bad Bunny Halftime Show?

No way, lol at Kid Rock and the people that pretend to like him.

He was cringe at the convention, may as well roll out the Village People for diversity and the win.

The NFL isn't worried

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Put a dent in the Super Bowl? Not likely

Might it still be a success? Sure. Lots of emotional types are not watching the Super Bowl and may watch this to engage in virtue signaling.

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Hard to get a better answer than this. I might substitute "not watching" to "pretending not to watch".

If you watch Bad Bunny as a grown man you’re a total loser.

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Put a dent in the Super Bowl? Not likely
Might it still be a success? Sure. Lots of emotional types are not watching the Super Bowl and may watch this to engage in virtue signaling.

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Your use of virtue signalling here is only partially correct at best. Virtue signalling usually has an outward clout chasing component... like putting a Ukraine flag on your bio so everyone can see how virtuous you are despite you having to do nothing. For those who decide to change the channel who are by themselves or in small groups of friends watching together, there won't really be any social status or clout to gain by switching over to Kid Rock or whatever else... therefore there isn't much of a "signal".

There will be some shallow followers who do it, but this isn't quite virtue signalling. Even posting about it before the show might be considered more of a lobbying effort to get others to join in the movement and would thus not qualify. The act itself of switching channels is not virtue signalling. Only those who go on X or wherever afterwards bragging about switching the channel will really be virtue signalling (there will be some to be fair... and if they're successful, there will be some gloating, but that's different, too).

I was having some trouble thinking of what it should be called, and so did ask Grok for guidance. Aside from being a type of boycott, Grok suggested it might be...

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A more fitting term for this kind of largely unseen, individual action might be "political consumerism" or "ethical consumption choice"—where people align their private behaviors (like viewing habits) with their values to "vote with their attention" or wallet, without needing an audience. If it's shallow or done just to feel part of a movement without deeper commitment, it could border on "slacktivism" (low-effort activism that feels good but achieves little), though slacktivism often has a minimal public component like sharing a post. Ultimately, the label depends on the motivation: genuine principle versus self-satisfaction or group conformity.

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I may or may not change the channel myself, and am not overly concerned with how successful this halftime boycott ends up being. I'm sure there will be some virtue signalling, but the broad sweep of how you applied it is presumptive and misleading. If you're going to label people with any sort of insult, you should take care to be more accurate.

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You could say he's [Kid Rock is] the Sarah Stock of Millennial rap-rock political personalities.

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This is a flat out terrible comparison.

Someone lying and living a double-life while reaping rewards from the community making her famous (Stock) =/= someone who made a temporary boycott of a product and went back to consuming it after they changed their advertising approach. You can read my longer opinion in full in my post above this one to Boomer. Boycotts can absolutely be temporary.

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I might substitute "not watching" to "pretending not to watch".

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On here, I think it's much more sincere

Now on the MSB...

It'll pull decent numbers but it wont meaningfully effect the super bowl numbers.

You underestimate how out of touch most people are. The vast majority of people don't even know who the halftime performer even is.

You guys that are boycotting the NFL are a small minority

So you are saying that people who voted for Trump and liked Charlie Kirk are a small minority? Pffft, what a dumb fricking statement.

Why do Democrats keep thinking that 90% of the fricking country loves them? 90% of the country actually hates their guts. When Trump eliminates voter fraud, you are going to see how full of shite democrats have been for the past 20 years. They are not as popular as they have brainwashed Americans to believe.

I keep hearing every single day that MAGA is a Cult, MAGA is only a small Minority, MAGA is not very popular but every single Poll, research firm, etc has stated that MAGA is more popular than ever before.

Lol this is just all divisional chatter. I don’t follow nfl like years past, but half time entertainment isn’t keeping me from going to family’s for the ‘party’.

No I will believe that it is not on a conventional TV and only watchable online so I do not expect the show to be that massive audience-wise

In other words, I have common fricking sense.

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No I will believe that it is not on a conventional TV and only watchable online so I do not expect the show to be that massive audience-wise

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Then explain how this fits

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Why do Democrats keep thinking that 90% of the fricking country loves them? 90% of the country actually hates their guts. When Trump eliminates voter fraud, you are going to see how full of shite democrats have been for the past 20 years. They are not as popular as they have brainwashed Americans to believe.

I keep hearing every single day that MAGA is a Cult, MAGA is only a small Minority, MAGA is not very popular but every single Poll, research firm, etc has stated that MAGA is more popular than ever before.

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Are you just preemptively setting up excuses or something?