The complaints to the FCC were nearly unanimous in condemning Will Smith's actions.
“This display was disgusting and beamed directly into our living room,” according to an FCC complaint from Connecticut. “I thought your agency was supposed to keep this type of violence and cursing off television. I hope you can bring sense and reason back to the public airways.
There were 540,000 complaints registered after “Nipplegate,” The Wrap reported -- two years before Twitter was created.
As reported in Variety’s Trending TV chart, there were 5 million mentions on Twitter about the 2022 Academy Awards overall, with 32.
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