Slate’s ‘Adele Dazeem’ Travoltafier Becomes the Most Popular Article in Website’s History

The contrarian culture site’s widget had nearly 10 million unique hits as of Thursday

Slate’s Adele Dazeem name generator, which Slate posted on Monday following John Travolta‘s highly-publicized Oscar faux pas in which the actor hilariously mispronounced Idina Menzel‘s name has become the website’s most viewed article ever.

The Travoltafier widget racked up nearly 10 million unique users by Thursday and was adding roughly 100,000 hits an hour.

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Plotz noted the overwhelming success of the post on Twitter:

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