“Black Ink Crew Chicago” is experiencing a major ratings slide in its third season. In fact, this season’s ratings have been the lowest for the show ever.
The season premiere only drew a series low of 882,000 viewers, with a 0.5 rating for ages 18-49. Last week’s episode improved to only 1.026 million, with the same 0.5 rating.
This is a contrast from their second season where they hit a series high of over 2 million people, only falling to just 1.4 million on the season low.
Ryan isn’t pleased with these numbers, especially since they had nearly double the amount of viewers last season. He feels that VH1 isn’t providing the backing in promotion needed for the show to succeed.
In his eyes, VH1 isn’t vibing with the realness that is on his show. He got so angry about this that he went on a Twitter rant about it.
Check out his tweets below.
UPDATE: Ryan told us on Instagram that the ratings are actually good. He however, is not happy with the lack of support VH1 is showing.
Check out his response below.
I mean Mona runs VH1. Everything else is a second, third, and fourth priority when it comes to promotion. I like this show though.
True.
His tweets are true. But they did the original show the same way. They won’t start promoting it until it blows up. That’s how all the networks do. They don’t want to waste too much money in a Netflix and cord cutting society.
He better chill before they get cancelled.
But it’s better than the New York one this season.
They should’ve never moved them to Wednesday night
Black Ink Chicago is good as sh-t. Hell the franchise is better than all of Mona’s sh-t right now. LHH just got too damn fake.
He’s fine as hell.
He didn’t lie.
Junk food tv. That’s what’s on VH1 most of the time. Worthless nonsense and shenanigans. Smh ??♀️
I like Ryan. He always keeps it real.
lol his show is just as fake and just as scripted that’s the pot calling the kettle black. Black Ink and 9″Mag need to get serious about their brand just Like Ari and Kat Von D did. They need to do more licensing deals, more tattoo conventions, festivals, all the show really is just drama. Which is the reason why the shows don’t seem real to me. They’re not trying to expand the brand as much as they are trying to party/turn up
I actually believe the ratings are down this season is because all of the men have brought their significant others in the mix this season which probably reduced their female fan base.