Are the Oscars losing their touch?
The Oscars are back, and this year, they may have just featured something that the internet will be discussing for weeks. If you’ve been living under a rock for the past few days, you won’t know that Oscars host Chris Rock made a joke and the expense of Will Smith’s wife, to which Smith got on stage and hit Rock in response. It’s hard to tell if this whole escapade was staged, most people believing it wasn’t due to the shocking nature of it all. Yet a large part of the internet believe it could have been an act, just to get people talking about the Oscars. All news is good news, and in the case of this fiasco, it would definitely drum up a lot of publicity for the Oscars. It’s no secret that the awards show has been losing viewers year on year. A lot of people were turned off the show a while ago, during the start of the #MeToo era. But it could be argued that the Oscars have been losing steam even before this, with a lot of people saying that the internet took away from the migh...