{"id":60644,"date":"2025-05-23T10:10:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T10:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=60644"},"modified":"2025-05-23T10:10:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T10:10:36","slug":"viewers-furious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=60644","title":{"rendered":"Viewers Furious\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-555.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-555.png 480w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-555-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<em>American Idol<\/em>\u00a0season 23 finale on May 18, 2025, saw Jamal Roberts crowned the winner, but his victory sparked a flood of criticism. Many fans expressed disappointment, arguing that runner-up John Foster should have won.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Social media was filled with comments like \u201cJohn was robbed\u201d and \u201cAnother rigged season.\u201d Some viewers even pledged not to watch the show again due to the result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with the controversy over the winner, Carrie Underwood\u2019s judging during the season also drew criticism. Many fans questioned her harsh critiques of Jamal Roberts and her apparent bias. Some even called for her to be replaced as a judge. Despite the backlash, there were defenders of Underwood, and some fans hoped she would return in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=FBv1m00Eag8%3Ffeature%3Doembed\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The finale also saw eliminations of Thunderstorm Artis and Slater Nalley, while Roberts, Foster, and Breanna Nix made it to the final three. The season ended with divided opinions, as viewers debated both the winner and the judges\u2019 performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=60612\">also read&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0American Idol\u00a0season 23 finale on May 18, 2025, saw Jamal Roberts crowned the winner, but his victory sparked a flood of criticism. Many fans expressed disappointment, arguing&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60647,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60644\/revisions\/60647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}