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An easy way for a relatively unknown or unpopular actor, politician, or musician to experience a sudden increase in popularity is to appear on a more popular work. This is usually because they managed to grab and impress the audience of that show, who then publicizes how good they are via word of mouth. It's the number-one reason to appear on certain shows, especially ones where the host enjoys tormenting the guests. This even extends to elements of a relatively obscure work getting featured in a newer work, which often happens with popular crossover series like Super Smash Bros.. The Trope Namer is Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report. Whenever politicians, especially ones running for office, experienced a bump in poll numbers after being on his show, Colbert would take credit for it by saying that they received the "Colbert Bump". While this claim began as part of Colbert's larger-than-life political pundit persona (he would also claim responsibility whenever authors' books or musicians' songs did well), the phrase would be adopted in media, and be subsequently carried over to Colbert's later show The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. When public figures who mainly appeal to adults appear on children's shows, that's "Sesame Street" Cred. When this happens to songs, it's Revival by Commercialization. When it happens to objects or goods, it's The Red Stapler. When applied to an online article or resource, it's called "being slashdotted". Contrast Leno Device, which is when a show indicates how big a story already is by depicting a talk show host such as Leno or someone else talking about it. When this happens to places, it's the Tourist Bump. Note: This is for relatively unknown works (or people, genres, places, etc) that became popular after being referenced or featured in other, more well-known works. Works that received renewed popularity as a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic do not fit this definition and should not be listed. Examples |
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The Thick of It got a big boost, particularly among younger and non-British viewers, after its leading man Peter Capaldi got cast as the Twelfth Doctor. | |
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Wizard101 experienced this after Cr1TiKaL played it in response to a hacking incident in 2022 where, despite being a family friendly game, the notification system got accessed by an unauthorized person (presumably a former employee of the company) who said inappropriate things like "The next world is my boss's asshole", "this game is shit", "dick and balls", "I fucking hate my job" and so on. Although he did discuss some of the things that surprised him that it's considered a children's game (like the heavy reliance on loot crates (known as packs) and pay to win content (it's possible for a reasonable player to hit a paywall not even an hour in), there was a quick spike in the game's popularity because of him mentioning it. | |
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KT Tunstall's big break happened when she performed "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" on Later... with Jools Holland after being given only 24 hours' notice. Seasick Steve's regular appearances on Jools Holland's Hootenanny made him popular. |
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On a 2002 episode of American Country Countdown, Bob Kingsley spun "Halfway Home Cafe", an album cut from Ricky Skaggs' History of the Future. The resulting airplay was enough to get the song to #56 for a single week — nothing too impressive by chart standards, but quite the accomplishment for an independently-released bluegrass song by an artist whose career peak was nearly 15 years prior. | |
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When reviewing Bloodwings: Pumpkinhead's Revenge, Spoony mentioned how hard it was to find any info on this game, calling it the game the internet forgot. Once his video was released, let's just say that there's no more shortage of info on this game... | |
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Homestuck features the character Gamzee, who loves drinking Faygo, and this has increased Faygo sales a bit, especially in places where you can't find Faygo in stores and have to order it over the web. | |
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The obscure cartoon The Adventures of Paddy the Pelican would have probably faded into obscurity if it weren't for its appearance as SCP Foundation's SCP-2835 (Constructive Criticism). | |
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Arlo has frequently criticized Paper Mario: Sticker Star and Paper Mario: Color Splash for being bad games in the Paper Mario series. So when he did a review of the Nintendo Switch version of Bug Fables, an homage to the earlier Paper Mario games, and declared it a fitting successor to classic Paper Mario while also having its own unique merits, the low-budget crowdfunded game got a large boost in sales. | |
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Yume no Crayon Oukoku's theme song became more well-known outside of Japan due to its usage in Episode 6 of Koishi Komeiji's Heart-Throbbing Adventure. | |
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Subnautica managed to get more attention after Jacksepticeye began to do a series on the game. At one point, Jack even states that the developers of the game got in contact with him, and thanked him for saving them from bankruptcy. | |
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The Exorcist started off badly, with one date of the launch book tour being cancelled because very few copies were sold. But a chance appearance on The Dick Cavett Show, because Robert Shaw was too drunk to attend, allowed author William Peter Blatty to discuss the book extensively on TV, and soon afterwards the book entered the best-selling lists and went on to generate a seminal film adaptation. | |
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Thor was also obscure to most of the mainstream. His first feature-length movie not only boosted his popularity and profile but even caused a spike in interest for the Norse Mythology the characters were based on. | |
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The World Ends with You barely broke 150,000 copies of Nintendo DS game sales. Then Neku was featured in Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance]. Cue the game shooting up the Amazon bestseller list and more people playing this well-received but overlooked game, as well as the game eventually being ported to the Nintendo Switch and mobile devices. | |
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This is almost guaranteed to happen when a song is featured in a popular video on TikTok but never was there a more stunning example than Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road", which gained its first real exposure through the service and eventually broke the record for the longest-running #1 in Billboard's history. Other examples include asdfmovie's "The Muffin Song", Pogo's "Living Island" and several Jack Stauber songs. | |
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Joan Baez's version of Donna Donna received a bump after some of the lyrics were featured in Tokyo Ghoul:re | |
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Suika Game (also known as Watermelon Game) is a simple puzzle game for the Nintendo Switch that can only be described as "Puzzle Bobble with fruits and physics". It was released in 2021 only in Japan, but gained a massive boost in popularity and downloads in September 2023 after Vtubers from hololive and NIJISANJI began streaming the game. It helps that the game is dirt cheap, costing only 240 yen. The unprecedented interest in the game outside Japan led to the publisher to officially release internationally with English, Chinese, and Korean translations the following month. | |
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It's also worth noting that the makers of The Stanley Parable made a uniquely written playable demo specifically for them to play on Steam Train which, not only addressed them by name but even has the narrator use their catchphrase "God DAMMIT Ross!" after everything goes wrong. | |
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In 2018, PAW Patrol was already huge among its target audience, but its popularity doubled after Justin Timberlake revealed his love for the show on The Tonight Show, since many curious people who watched the show wanted to show it to their children or grandkids to see what it was all about. While this helped with sales of most of the licensed merchandise, the DVDs, and online downloads, the popularity of the toys that tie into the show sunk that summer due to new competitors like PJ Masks and Thomas and Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! and old franchises which had new media made for them in 2018 like The Avengers and Trolls taking away PAW Patrol toy sales. This reversed itself in the fall of 2018 from a combination of John Oliver mentioning it on the Emmys and heavy promotion for the Mighty Pups special on both TV and in stores like Wal-Mart, with the peak of that popularity happening after said special premiered. In an odd case of this trope, PAW Patrol itself didn't become big until the toyline came out in the fall of 2014, which caused more people to discover the series. It's gotten to the point where some families who buy the toys did not know they were originally based on a show. |
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Guts and Berserk (1997) were featured on Man at Arms. | |
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3D Dot Game Heroes saw a bump after the music that plays in the Blockout minigame became Scott the Woz's outro theme. | |
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Even pages that already exist are often modified after a Channel Awesome review: for example, after The Nostalgia Critic review of Flubber, This Very Wiki had a sudden influx of mentions on how unlikable Professor Brainard is. Ditto for Ferris Bueller in Dr. Insano's review of Ferris Bueller's Day Off. | |
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Some bands have also reported booming sales after being featured as DLC in Rock Band and Guitar Hero games. | |
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In scale modelling, the popularity of both Girls und Panzer and World of Tanks has resulted in increased sales of model tanks. | |
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Fire Emblem got a boost from Marth and Roy's appearances in Melee. Before this, Fire Emblem was a Japan-exclusive franchise, meaning that as far as the West was concerned, Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros.". But interest in the franchise made it one of Nintendo's major moneymakers on the 3DS (where Fire Emblem: Awakening was its Killer App) and Switch (where Fire Emblem: Three Houses became the franchise's best-selling game in record time). | |
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Can also be called The Skins Effect; a number of bands, notably Gossip and Foals, experienced huge boosts in popularity and success as a result of their music appearing in the show. Alex Hancock (the show's music supervisor) is looking into ways to make this a deliberate part of the show, by only ever including music by unsigned bands; he's up against OFCOM and cross-promotion rules, though. | |
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Dragon Quest got a bump in the West from the addition of the Hero as a DLC character for Ultimate. While Dragon Quest was always a cultural phenomenon in Japan and considered the definitive RPG franchise, it was considered niche in the West as the "definitive JRPG" spot went to Final Fantasy. Hero's inclusion in Smash led to a large increase in Amazon pre-orders for Dragon Quest XI, and Dragon Quest Builders 2 shipped more than a million copies after its worldwide release. | |
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In 1956, Elvis Presley received a polio vaccination on television, causing the percentage of people getting vaccinated to skyrocket. | |
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By the early 2000s, Rick James had largely become disgraced thanks to drug addictions and a 3-year prison sentence. Then Dave Chappelle spoofed his life on Chappelle's Show, and Rick's popularity reached new heights. | |
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In 2020, game stores reported a bump in chess set sales thanks to The Queen's Gambit. | |
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The song "KEEP YOUR HEAD UP!!", originally from Um Jammer Lammy and heard in full on its soundtrack album Make It Sweet!, is more well-known from its use as the ending credits song of Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Movie than as the ending credits song to the original game. | |
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The "Popcorn" sound on the iPhone, originally intended as a text tone, saw a major boost in popularity after it was featured in Inside Out. It got to the point where some fans set the sound as their ringtone. | |
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Almost every real life song that was used in WandaVision saw renewed interest afterwards, judging from the YouTube comments for songs like "Yakety Yak", "Help Me, Rhonda", "Daydream Believer", and "Voodoo Child". The theme music to The Munsters theme song renewed interest after Agatha's Villain Song, "Agatha All Along", used the Munsters tune and even visually emulated its style. An old music video by Elizabeth Olsen's older sisters gained renewed interest as a result of WandaVision, with many pointing out several lines that are Hilarious in Hindsight. The Calgon bath soap ads of the 1970s regained interest after the show parodied the ads with ones for Hydra Soak ("Find the goddess within"). |
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Reddit, a link-sharing site, has this effect from time to time. One example is when the site crashed another webpage selling a 'Freshly Signed Divorce Papers' scented candle (See here). Wikipedia's report of the 25 most popular pages of the week has a tendency for an entry boosted by Reddit (specially r/todayilearned) - though the author(s) often complain how searching Reddit to find out said proof engine is not always easy - when it's not a Google Doodle. |
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The show homaged Sondheim numbers twice during season 1. Lots of people had never even heard of Into the Woods and Sunday in the Park with George, until they watched the show. | |
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The Science Fiction Horror game Iron Lung went through two bumps in its lifetime. The first was caused by Markiplier announcing his film adaptation of the game's events, based on how he played the game and his reactions throughout its story. The second was morbidly caused by a Life Imitates Art situation where the very poorly built OceanGate submersible Titan imploded while on a tour to the remains of the RMS Titanic, with many engaging in Black Comedy over how the Titan somehow has worst controls and infrastructure over the intentionally-shoddy built fictional Iron Lung submarine. | |
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The genetic syndrome Barakat syndrome was relatively unknown among the general public prior to 2015 when a teenager named William Walter Thompson who had the syndrome had his wish granted to appear on his favorite show, Teen Titans Go!. In fact, "Barakat syndrome Wally T" is Google's third result when you type in the syndrome's name. | |
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It works inversely as well. Fellow boy band The Wanted had a global hit, but were overshadowed by One Direction in the US market and forgotten afterwards; although they were still successful in their native UK, 1D's American breakthrough did mark a downward turning point for their career. Justin Bieber, the reigning teen phenomenon at the time of their rise, also took a major hit thanks to 1D, but came back swinging after releasing the single "Where Are Ü Now" with Skrillex and Diplo, as well the album Purpose. | |
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The Weeknd had a rise comparable to Chris Stapleton, seeing as they both became popular within the same year. He did some guest vocals on a Drake song and had at least one minor hit in his own right ("Wanderlust", a collaboration with Pharrell Williams), but wasn't as popular as the likes of Taylor Swift... that is, until he appeared on the Ariana Grande hit "Love Me Harder" and contributed the song "Earned It" to the Fifty Shades of Grey film soundtrack. That song quickly made the top 5, and his next few singles were just as huge, with three ("Can't Feel My Face", "The Hills", and "Starboy") even hitting #1. | |
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In Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, "Weird Al" Yankovic is so popular that any song he parodies rockets up in sales, with Madonna dating him just so she can receive that bump. This is referred to in the movie as the "Yankovic Bump". (In real life, Al's parodies have given significant sales bumps to the original material from time to time, though not to the same degree as in the movie.) | |
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Anything that gets featured on Equestria Daily tends to get a pretty pronounced boost in popularity. Allow us to elaborate on the effect. There exists a character named Derpy Hooves, who is extremely popular with the fans. A vinyl molded figure of her was made alongside one of Rainbow Dash in early September 2012 by Hot Topic, who released the date and time that they would be released to the public. Equestria Daily noticed and posted this. The Derpy toy sold out in four minutes! All thousands of these toys sold out in just four minutes. My Little Pony Online, a fan game project, got their Episode 1 release mentioned. The downloads were unavailable for several hours because of just how many fans had flooded the site. |
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After the release of The Hunger Games and Brave in 2012 — both of which feature women protagonists who use a bow and arrow — girls’ participation in archery competitions doubled. | |
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Thanks to the surprise appearance of Hatsune Miku throughout its third season, Dropkick on My Devil saw a modest boost in popularity, even in the west where it is virtually unknown, thanks to her collaboration with the series that got people curious about seeing Miku in an anime, to the point where the series' official channel had to post Miku's appearances ahead of each episode to prevent unauthorized uploads. It even received a dub. | |
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Shows which visit restaurants, such as Diners, Drive-ins and Dives and Man v. Food, tend to cause big spikes for those restaurants. Notably, many of the restaurants ask that the producers let them know whenever their episodes are going to be rerun so they can be sure to properly staff for the big surge in customers that follow. | |
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Imagine Dragons labelmates X Ambassadors had their popularity boosted twice; once by their song "Jungle" appearing as the aforementioned "Single of the Week", and once again when their song "Renegades" appeared in commercials and radio spots for the (what else?) Jeep Renegade. | |
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In Rick and Morty, after Rick referenced when McDonald's did a promotion for the Disney film Mulan back in 1998 by selling Szechuan Sauce with their meals (which really happened), fans of the show expressed their desire for the sauce to return, even going far enough to make a petition for McDonald's to bring the sauce back. It worked, McDonald's announcing shortly afterwards that they were bringing the sauce back for a limited time. | |
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Similarly, "I got here from Cracked" comment is often featured on videos used to illustrate articles there. | |
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Roller skating saw a surge in popularity in the late 1970s that lasted into the 1980s thanks to singer Linda Ronstadt wearing a pair of skates on the cover of her 1978 album Living in the USA. Ronstadt herself received one from Johnny Cash early in her career when she was still primarily a country singer. |
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Anpanman was unknown outside of Japan and Asia until BTS released a song inspired by the franchise, causing people to gain interest in it. In fact, Tubi claimed that they acquired the rights to the franchise in North America specifically because of the popularity of BTS' song! | |
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Following The Exorcist, there was an increase in reports of demonic possession. | |
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Danny even recalls in his playthrough of Super Metroid that after passively suggesting people go watch Down To Clown, he rewatched it and found the comments full of things like "Danny you asshole!" | |
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Little-known rap group Smokin Suckaz Wit Logic got a bump from the dub of Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie, which used one of their songs during Dee Jay's brief scene. | |
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Radio Tapok, who makes mainly Russian-language cover versions of Western rock and metal songs, had a decent following in Russia prior to 2019 but was virtually unknown in the west. That changed when Sabaton found his cover versions of some of their songs and helped him do one of "The Attack of the Dead Men", then brought him along on their Russian tour in 2020. | |
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In The Big Bang Theory the Local Hangout comic book shop run by Stuart was in Perpetual Poverty, but after a glowing tweet about the shop from none other than Neil Gaiman the foot traffic tripled in an instant to where Stuart could hire an assistant. Funny thing Gaiman visited when the cast was so engaged in one of their nerdy arguments and his attempts to join in were ignored while nobody recognized him. | |
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One brand of cologne has received a rather sudden boost in sales. The cause? Both 2chan and 4chan noticed that the bottle resembled one that Kotetsu Kaburagi from Tiger & Bunny owned and decided they needed to know what Kotetsu smelled like. | |
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After being prominently featured in the soundtracks of the Test Drive videogame series, Pitch Shifter and Fear Factory received a strong bump in popularity. The latter got even more popular thanks to their breakthrough hit, the Cover Version of Gary Numan's "Cars", being featured in Test Drive 6 (as the opening theme) and the American release of Gran Turismo 2. | |
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EarthBound (1994) got a boost from Ness's appearance as an unlockable character in Super Smash Bros. 64. Few Western fans were familiar with the series, as EarthBound had flopped in the US and never made it to Europe at all. Ness's Smash appearance got fans interested. Brawl introduced Lucas from Mother 3. However, EarthBound was always kind of an Ensemble Dark Horse among Nintendo franchises — it was years before EarthBound was released on the Virtual Console in the West, and Mother 3 never made it outside Japan, so Western fans made bootlegs and fan translations. | |
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Homestuck occasionally links to YouTube videos to illustrate points, such as here. These videos tend to more than double in views and comments overnight, to the bemusement and (usually) gratefulness of whoever uploaded them. | |
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On a more positive note, several goons learned of Sir Ron Lionheart after he was mocked by Retsupurae. After getting a lot of unnecessary hate, his popularity quickly skyrocketed after one goon posted his LP of Sonic the Hedgehog (The Porcupine) in Cybershell's Sonic LP thread (which had been viewing, linking to, and making other Sonic-based playthroughs during his frequent schedule slips). He was found as a more ideal version of a Manchild. | |
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Although the Ultimate Marvel universe was a success, it was just success inside the niche market of comic books. But then, the first stages of the Marvel Cinematic Universe increased its notoriety by taking a strong influence from its looks and feel. | |
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Penny Arcade causes a similar effect whenever they mention anything. This is probably why Nintendo got them to do a five-part The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword comic. So a frequent a phenomena that it has been named. When the mention of a website on Penny Arcade leads to so many hits that the website's servers go down, it is said that the website in question has been "wanged". Jerry "Tycho" Holkins wrote that a recommendation from them can seem like a hostile act, "functionally indistinguishable from a Denial Of Service attack". | |
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A Dog of Flanders (1975): The anime received a surge of popularity in 2016 (in the West) because Natsuki Subaru's phone ringtone is the theme song. | |
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The Guardians of the Galaxy were considered even lower on the popularity tier than even a large chunk of the more relatively obscure Avengers members. Then the movie came out, creating a new fanbase for not just the Guardians themselves, but for the cosmic side of Marvel Comics in general. The songs on the movie's soundtrack also got some of this, the most notable of the bunch being Blue Swede's "Hooked on a Feeling", and Looking Glass' "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" from the second movie. | |
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Pepsiman got one from its SDGQ 2016 speedrun. This run made the game trend on Twitter, temporarily made it the most viewed game on Twitch, and septupled the amount of Twitter followers Mike Butters (the man in the live-action cutscenes) had. | |
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Man of the Year: Robin Williams' character is a Jon Stewart-esque talk show host who satirically runs for President... and wins due to this trope (and a computer glitch). | |
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Kid Icarus was vaulted by Pit's entry into Brawl. Before then, the franchise had just two games, on the NES and Game Boy, both of which were nearly forgotten and overshadowed by Nintendo's more popular franchises as soon as they were released. Pit's appearance in Brawl came with a redesign that generated new interest in the franchise, leading to the development of Kid Icarus: Uprising, which became a Killer App for the 3DS. | |
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It has been said that any video commented on, liked, or mentioned by raocow will get several thousand additional views within the day. | |
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Similarly, the manga series The Drops of God has influenced wine sales in Asia. A mention in-series can boost the popularity of previously obscure wines, and the series is credited with helping wine sales in South Korea rise from under a third of the alcohol market to 70 percent. | |
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Two Best Friends Play did two episodes on games from the Xbox Line Indie, the majority of the games were harpooned for their poor quality, until the last one on the second episode, which ended with them saying outright that everybody should buy T.E.C 3001. It went from rank 151 to 80 in under one hour of the video being released. | |
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An accidental version from the Joueur du Grenier: One of the characters created for the show is David Goodenough (played by Seb), a lazy game developer whose attitude towards a steaming turd of a game he worked on is basically "Meh, good enough", be it by downplaying the negative aspects or focusing on the undeniably functional ones like the box closing correctly, capped off by a "whatevs" shrug. However, it turns out they took the name from an actual developer in one of the games they reviewed. As a result, the real person's photo was once accidentally replaced with the JDG version on a site cataloging people working in video games. | |
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Warframe has been subject to at least two in its history: In a straightforward example, Digital Extremes credits prominent YouTubers such as Totalbiscuit with helping to raise awareness of it in its earliest days. In a much odder example (possibly an inversion?) Warframe's popularity was boosted even further in Fall 2017. While it was fairly popular at the time, it was gaining steam due to the marketing for its upcoming open-world update, Plains of Eidolon, causing people to revisit the game. This coincided with the various controversies and criticisms surrounding Destiny 2, such as intrusive lootboxes and microtransactions, XP throttling, and a lack of endgame content. As a result of Destiny's failures, and Warframe's successes, Warframe gained a lot of attention as people began mentioning it in discussions as "like Destiny 2 if it wasn't crap". Particular attention was paid to how its monetization methods are less exploitative, despite Warframe being an actual F2P game, unlike Destiny 2 which goes the whole hog with lootboxes and restricted content despite being a full-priced AAA game. As a result, Destiny 2's losses proved to be Warframe's gains. |
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This pretty much happens to anything mentioned on The Apprentice or Dragons' Den (aka Shark Tank). For example, after Keynoir was mentioned in an episode, their Twitter account basically exploded in popularity. Not to mention how some products now actually advertise 'featured on Dragon's Den' on the packaging... Or how the Bridge Cafe went from an extremely obscure local eatery to somewhere fans of the show end up trying to visit. | |
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Black Panther turned its titular hero from a B-lister (at best) to being perhaps the best-known Black superhero on the planet, with even celebrities and athletes mimicking the "Wakanda forever!" salute and chant. | |
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In a bizarre accidental case, in Paper Mario: Color Splash, the Emerald Circus troupe, at one point, requests Mario to follow them on social media. As it turns out, there is a real Emerald Circus out there, which got a burst of activity on their Facebook and Twitter pages. They embraced the coincidental identical name too, with a full playthrough of the Emerald Circus stage on their Facebook page. | |
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Multiple video games have gotten greater attention thanks to being featured in Scott The Woz: Scott has repeatedly referenced Chibi-Robo! throughout the series as being one of his favorite games, which has given the screwed-over Cult Classic more popularity over the years. 3D Dot Game Heroes saw a bump after the music that plays in the Blockout minigame became Scott the Woz's outro theme. Also, prior to Scott covering them, Mario Tennis Ultra Smash and Chibi-Robo! Zip-Lash didn't have an overwhelmingly negative perception, usually just "disappointing" or So Okay, It's Average. His reviews of them in his The Dark Age of Nintendo trilogy cemented the two games as black marks in Nintendo's history and now have a far greater public image. |
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The Mysterious Mr. Enter has this written all over his videos. After he reviews something, it instantly surges in popularity. Case in point; his review of "Ren Seeks Help" an episode of Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon". After calling it the most horrible thing in the universe, a flood of negative reviews suddenly appeared, even though the episode was the best-reviewed episode of the Adult Party Cartoon before he covered it. He also had discussed a once-obscure series called The Nutshack (calling it the worst animated series of the 2000s), which may or may not have helped fuel it into a full-fledged meme. (Although the first one among the Youtube cartoon community to mention this show anywhere was RebelTaxi, as noted here.) |
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Also, prior to Scott covering them, Mario Tennis Ultra Smash and Chibi-Robo! Zip-Lash didn't have an overwhelmingly negative perception, usually just "disappointing" or So Okay, It's Average. His reviews of them in his The Dark Age of Nintendo trilogy cemented the two games as black marks in Nintendo's history and now have a far greater public image. | |
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The Nostalgia Critic has this effect on films/shows he reviews, on this site if nowhere else. It's very telling that Big-Lipped Alligator Moment became a page on this Wiki within an hour of the posting of the video that coined the phrase. (Though technically it was The Nostalgia Chick who actually named the phrase in that video.) A notable example is the Villain Song from The Wind in the Willows. Its popularity skyrocketed right after he mentioned it in his Top 11 Villain Songs list. One such video on YouTube had like 2000 views in one year just before it was mentioned and one year later, the same song had roughly 160,000 views! Even pages that already exist are often modified after a Channel Awesome review: for example, after The Nostalgia Critic review of Flubber, This Very Wiki had a sudden influx of mentions on how unlikable Professor Brainard is. Ditto for Ferris Bueller in Dr. Insano's review of Ferris Bueller's Day Off. |
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In one episode of Dragon Ball Z Abridged, Vegeta tries to figure out a good way to explain who the Ginyu Force is to Gohan and goes down a list of various well-known tokusatsu, anime, Western cartoons and other series before stopping at Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills, the only show Gohan ever saw. Quite a few videos on YouTube have comments stating that Team Four Star lead them there because they thought, unsurprisingly, that TFS had made up the series. | |
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More than once, The Co-Optional Podcast has caused sites to crash after referencing certain games or even general products, whether or not they were recent releases. This has even extended outside the show itself, as evidenced on an esports podcast called Unfiltered, where the late TotalBiscuit appeared as a guest in 2014 to talk about his recent cancer diagnosis. When prompted to offer a link in the stream to a charity for cancer research he'd spoken of before, TB quipped that the last time he'd done that, the charity's site had crashed. He linked it again anyway—and sure enough, less than a minute later … | |
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After various news sites reported on episode 19 of HuGtto! Pretty Cure, which discussed gender roles, more people began checking out the anime to see what it was like. | |
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Like the Kevin Meaney example above, several articles reporting Harry Anderson's death mentioned his role in The Noddy Shop, causing more people who didn't know about the show or had watched it as children but forgot about it to rediscover the show. However, the episode he was in was not online until a year later. On the topic of The Noddy Shop, when fans recommended Gilbert Gottfried's episode on the day that a fan who knew the show's creator Rick Siggelkow uploaded it, the popularity of said fan's episode uploads boomed. Originally, it would take 3 days for an episode to reach 1,000 views, but after this episode, the new uploads got 1,000 views in 24 hours or less. |
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This happens to anyone mocked by Retsupurae. It's not always a good type of popularity, with a lot of the time this leading to tons of negative comments on said LPer's videos, but it's turned stuff like Gaming in the Clinton Years from obscure barely watched local TV shows to extremely popular (for all the wrong reasons) YouTube series. On a more positive note, several goons learned of Sir Ron Lionheart after he was mocked by Retsupurae. After getting a lot of unnecessary hate, his popularity quickly skyrocketed after one goon posted his LP of Sonic the Hedgehog (The Porcupine) in Cybershell's Sonic LP thread (which had been viewing, linking to, and making other Sonic-based playthroughs during his frequent schedule slips). He was found as a more ideal version of a Manchild. Many of the flash games tend to get this as well, particularly Arise, The Trapped Trilogy, and anything by Zap Dramatic. |
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Moon: Remix RPG Adventure was released in 1997 only in Japan, spending many years afterward languishing in such obscurity that even unofficial efforts to translate the game into English never reached completion. Two decades after its initial release, Toby Fox made a Twitter thread stating the influence Moon's concept had on his own game Undertale. A few years after the thread, Moon was re-released in Japan, topped the Nintendo Switch eShop charts in that region, was ported to multiple platforms, and finally received its long-awaited English translation. | |
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iHeartRadio (formerly Clear Channel) has the "On the Verge" program, which takes obscure new artists and heavily promotes them through airplay on its stations, and usually boosts them to hit status. In pop music, the acts who have been taken this way include Iggy Azalea, Rachel Platten, and Fifth Harmony, while the program has had more success in Country Music, with artists such as Craig Campbell, Chris Janson (who notably wasn't even signed to a label at the time due to two of his previous labels closing, but later earned a contract with Warner (Bros.) Records after "On the Verge" championed "Buy Me a Boat"), Chase Bryant, Cam, Granger Smith, and Maren Morris all benefiting from it. In rock music, Dirty Honey's rise to fame was assisted by "On the Verge". While it was not part of an "On the Verge" program, Country Music deejay Bobby Bones (whose show is syndicated by a division of iHeartRadio) helped shape Little Big Town's "Girl Crush" into a hit through heavy play on his show. It was a performance on The Tonight Show and a viral article about its controversial LGBT themes that helped it rise on iTunes and gain attention outside the country fan base, with a cover on The Voice and a performance at the Academy of County Music awards solidifying its rise. |
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe, in general, has done this for the characters it has adapted on screen. Specifically: Iron Man was largely unknown to most of the mainstream, considered a B or even C-list character at best by other Marvel fans (who were also largely soured on the character due to his controversial characterization in the then-recent Civil War (2006) arc), and hardly anyone expected his 2008 silver screen debut would amount to much. Those doubts were proven wrong, and the first Iron Man film essentially made Tony Stark just as well-known as Batman. The second movie similarly helped boost the popularity of Black Widow and S.H.I.E.L.D. as well. Thor was also obscure to most of the mainstream. His first feature-length movie not only boosted his popularity and profile but even caused a spike in interest for the Norse Mythology the characters were based on. The Guardians of the Galaxy were considered even lower on the popularity tier than even a large chunk of the more relatively obscure Avengers members. Then the movie came out, creating a new fanbase for not just the Guardians themselves, but for the cosmic side of Marvel Comics in general. The songs on the movie's soundtrack also got some of this, the most notable of the bunch being Blue Swede's "Hooked on a Feeling", and Looking Glass' "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" from the second movie. Black Panther turned its titular hero from a B-lister (at best) to being perhaps the best-known Black superhero on the planet, with even celebrities and athletes mimicking the "Wakanda forever!" salute and chant. On a series-specific example, Daredevil was cancelled in 2018, with its third and final season seeing a steep decline in viewership from Season 2. However, Charlie Cox and Vincent D'Onofrio reprising their roles as Matt Murdock and The Kingpin for Spider-Man: No Way Home and Hawkeye, respectively, led to a massive resurgence of interest in the series during the final weeks of 2021. The show even managed to crack Nielsen's Top 10 streaming list near the end of December. |
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Iron Man was largely unknown to most of the mainstream, considered a B or even C-list character at best by other Marvel fans (who were also largely soured on the character due to his controversial characterization in the then-recent Civil War (2006) arc), and hardly anyone expected his 2008 silver screen debut would amount to much. Those doubts were proven wrong, and the first Iron Man film essentially made Tony Stark just as well-known as Batman. The second movie similarly helped boost the popularity of Black Widow and S.H.I.E.L.D. as well. | |
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The release of Sideways had a very positive effect on sales of Pinot noir wines and a (smaller) negative effect on sales of Merlot. This was dubbed "The Sideways Effect" in the winemaking industry. Similarly, the manga series The Drops of God has influenced wine sales in Asia. A mention in-series can boost the popularity of previously obscure wines, and the series is credited with helping wine sales in South Korea rise from under a third of the alcohol market to 70 percent. |
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Ditto for Madden NFL and its collegiate sister series NCAA Football. This is usually referred to as the "Madden Curse". | |
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Berserk has gotten more attention from Western viewers thanks to specific series with a more mainstream audience: PewDiePie introduced Berserk to some of his large fanbase by praising it (specifically Berserk (1997) and the manga) on his show. Some learned about Berserk from "Guts VS Nightmare" on DEATH BATTLE!. Guts and Berserk (1997) were featured on Man at Arms. Lots of people were introduced to Berserk purely by Word Of Mouth from hearing Dark Souls fans talking about it so much. And then there's the metalheads who were turned on to it by Anton Kabanen's two Power Metal bands Battle Beast and Beast in Black. About half of his songwriting output is about Berserk, particularly the Golden Age Arc, and Beast in Black's third album Dark Connection is dedicated to Kentaro Miura after his death earlier the same year. |
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Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc got a Western release due largely to a Let's Play on Something Awful. That's right. A Let's Play made a Japan-exclusive game popular enough in the West to warrant an official English translation. | |
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Someone Great, an otherwise forgotten 2019 Netflix film, was responsible for bringing 2017's "Truth Hurts", and therefore Lizzo, to the top of the charts. | |
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Sonic and the Death Cheese received more attention after it became a Running Gag on the BumbleKast as a fan favorite of Sonic comic writer Ian Flynn. | |
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Among the LEGO fandom, Brickset is a prominent cause of a variation of this trope, usually used in description of online sales or premature uploading of information on future sets - once such a sale gets mentioned on Brickset, it's often sold out within a matter of hours. This has been dubbed the "Brickset effect". | |
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Banjo-Kazooie, after the franchise went dormant since 2008, got some interest in Japan after the title characters were introduced to Ultimate. When Masahiro Sakurai announced the pair, he mentioned that their games can be played on the Xbox One, which led to a noticeable increase in searches and mentions of the system. | |
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The Voice brought renewed interest to both Cee Lo Green and Blake Shelton. | |
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Alec Benjamin's "I Built A Friend" got a boost when 12-year-old Merrick Hanna danced to it for his audition on America's Got Talent. Alec would then record a cover of Ruth B's "Lost Boy" for another of Merrick's performances. | |
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The 1960 musical Camelot famously became associated with John F. Kennedy's presidency after his assassination. JFK and his wife in particular were both fans of the musical, which lead to the Kennedy administration being dubbed "Camelot". | |
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Area 11 received a massive influx of fans after their song based on Dota 2 was featured on the Yogscast channel for Lewis Brindley and Simon Lane. The band then signed with the Yogscast for two years, which definitely helped them get off the ground. The group are not registered with the Yogscast anymore, but are still friendly with them and have a large number of Yognaughts in the fandom. | |
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Bayonetta was long considered an Acclaimed Flop, but the title character's appearance in Smash 4 was key in generating interest in the game and its sequel. Indeed, Bayonetta is a DLC fighter who won a months-long fan vote on who would get that spot. | |
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Vita Carnis got more exposure after Crowmudgeon and Film Theory did "deep dive" videos about the series. This is probably why the Season 1 finale video "Facility-0" gives them special thanks in the credits. | |
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In a much odder example (possibly an inversion?) Warframe's popularity was boosted even further in Fall 2017. While it was fairly popular at the time, it was gaining steam due to the marketing for its upcoming open-world update, Plains of Eidolon, causing people to revisit the game. This coincided with the various controversies and criticisms surrounding Destiny 2, such as intrusive lootboxes and microtransactions, XP throttling, and a lack of endgame content. As a result of Destiny's failures, and Warframe's successes, Warframe gained a lot of attention as people began mentioning it in discussions as "like Destiny 2 if it wasn't crap". Particular attention was paid to how its monetization methods are less exploitative, despite Warframe being an actual F2P game, unlike Destiny 2 which goes the whole hog with lootboxes and restricted content despite being a full-priced AAA game. As a result, Destiny 2's losses proved to be Warframe's gains. | |
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SsethTzeentach has a history of bringing in a huge wave of new players after dropping a review since the games he covers tend to be very old PC titles or lesser-known niche indie titles, which are shortly followed up with the games topping the sales charts and generating a Demand Overload on their servers. He is aware of this and even works with the games' creators to have them put the games on sale by the time he drops the review. Some of his biggest Colbert Bumps include SYNTHETIK, Space Station 13 (despite recommending his viewers to not play it), Kenshi, and Starsector, among many others. Even second-hand endorsements, such as on MandaloreGaming's Brigador review, have a lot of weight to them. | |
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Sabaton The band has made a habit of calling attention to lesser-known figures and events in military history, to the point that the creation of some Wikipedia articles coincides with them releasing a song about them—notably Karel JanouÅ¡ek and the Attack of the Dead Men. Radio Tapok, who makes mainly Russian-language cover versions of Western rock and metal songs, had a decent following in Russia prior to 2019 but was virtually unknown in the west. That changed when Sabaton found his cover versions of some of their songs and helped him do one of "The Attack of the Dead Men", then brought him along on their Russian tour in 2020. |
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Similarly, Danzig's "Mother" became a hit several years after its release due to its video appearing on the show. | |
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Prior to October 21, 2016, very few people knew about Kevin Meaney's role on Garfield and Friends as Aloysius Pig compared to his other roles on TV. After his death on said date made the news and several articles reporting it mentioned the role, people watched the episode and became big fans of Aloysius Pig. Even Skiprope Entertainment, PBS' DVD division, got the note and included his final episode on the first Garfield and Friends DVD release in 11 years. | |
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In the fall of 2023, Nanalan' boomed in popularity after a clip from the episode "Play Day" went viral on TikTok. | |
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And if you want your kid to become an engineer or astrophysicist, show them some Star Trek. | |
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Enigma's re-released their Greatest Hits Album with a Giorno-themed cover thanks to "Modern Crusaders" being used as the second ending theme to Golden Wind. | |
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Scott has repeatedly referenced Chibi-Robo! throughout the series as being one of his favorite games, which has given the screwed-over Cult Classic more popularity over the years. | |
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Cher Lloyd. Ed Sheeran. Olly Murs. Little Mix. What do these four British artists have in common? They all used One Direction to become popular in the United States. Cher Lloyd finished fourth on the 2010 edition of The X Factor, right behind One Direction. Ed Sheeran has written songs for One Direction, most notably "Little Things". Olly Murs, runner-up of the 2009 edition, has performed in America as an opener for One Direction. Little Mix were the winners of the 2011 edition, and while they did have moderate chart success in the US, one of its members, Perrie Edwards, was at one point engaged to former 1D member Zayn Malik. The group has also helped spawn interest in the American version of The X Factor (which had just finished its first season by the time of their rise to international fame), which gave to the public the likes of Fifth Harmony and Alex & Sierra. In 2013, Australian pop-rock band 5 Seconds of Summer were selected as One Direction's opening act for their second tour. Unsurprisingly, this spurred international interest in the band and led to a #1 album the next year. Their exposure to their fans through that made them go from an obscure YouTube cover band one of Australia's most successful Pop Rock acts of all time. Most bands similar to them have to wait years before reaching even a fraction of the kind of success they've had. It works inversely as well. Fellow boy band The Wanted had a global hit, but were overshadowed by One Direction in the US market and forgotten afterwards; although they were still successful in their native UK, 1D's American breakthrough did mark a downward turning point for their career. Justin Bieber, the reigning teen phenomenon at the time of their rise, also took a major hit thanks to 1D, but came back swinging after releasing the single "Where Are Ãœ Now" with Skrillex and Diplo, as well the album Purpose. "Human" by Rag'n'Bone Man was a relatively unknown song until November 2016, when it skyrocketed to #3 on the British charts and became a runaway hit in the UK (and eventually worldwide) after it was featured on X Factor — not because of One Direction, for a change (they were long on hiatus at that point), but rather because of eventual semifinalist Emily Middlemas, who made the then-risky decision of performing the song in the quarterfinals after weeks of being assigned ballad after ballad by her mentor Simon. |
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The Big O was originally a failure in Japan. In the US, however, its run on Toonami (as well as [adult swim]) was so successful that it got a second season co-produced by Cartoon Network. | |
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"Moonlight Sonata" by Ludwig van Beethoven became more popular when it appeared as a puzzle solution in Resident Evil, even among those who don't listen to classical music. | |
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Many of the flash games tend to get this as well, particularly Arise, The Trapped Trilogy, and anything by Zap Dramatic. | |
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The Mashin Hero Wataru Series suddenly received a surge of interest in the West thanks to its inclusion in Super Robot Wars X, which also led to it receiving a page on This Very Wiki. | |
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The Proclaimers' "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" was released in 1988, but it became a hit in the US in 1993 when it was featured in Benny & Joon. And then it received a second bump when David Tennant revealed himself to be a big fan of the band. Cue Whovians getting hooked on the song. And yet another one from its use on How I Met Your Mother ("Arrivederci, Fiero"), which is how most younger fans discovered it. |
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Star vs. the Forces of Evil introduced a number of new viewers to the works of Parry Gripp by using his song "Space Unicorn" as Marco's Embarrassing Ringtone. | |
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This trope can also be called "The Glee Factor", as many musicians and songs and styles who've been covered by the cast (Britney Spears, Madonna) have had Career Resurrections and renewed interest after their music was featured. The Glee versions themselves have been pretty big hits on the Billboard charts. Todd in the Shadows, reviewing "We Are Young" by fun. and "Somebody That I Used to Know" by Gotye together, after realizing that the two songs' going to #1 on the Billboard charts consecutively despite being rather left-field pop hits was largely due to Glee, went as far to say that "Glee is the new MTV." There's a good reason for this: "We Are Young" first gained attention when it was featured in the episode "Hold On to Sixteen" but never peaked until after being used in a Chevy commercial that played during the Super Bowl a few months later; inversely, "Somebody That I Used To Know" took off in the States well before Glee covered it in the episode "Big Brother", but reached #1 the week after it was covered. Some bands have also reported booming sales after being featured as DLC in Rock Band and Guitar Hero games. |
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The Game Grumps did an episode playing Endless Ocean, followed by a whole series focused on its sequel Blue World, bringing a lot more fans both to those games and to Hayley Westenra, whose music prominently featured in the first game (Celtic Woman had Hayley as a member for a few years, but their tunes included in Blue World are misattributed to her by Arin and Danny). It's jokingly suggested that this exposure to such a niche Nintendo IP helped get the third game, Endless Ocean: Luminous, into development for release in 2024. | |
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Painkiller saw a massive spike in Steam downloads after Yahtzee praised the game in a Zero Punctuation review - so much so that the Steam advert for the game actually quoted Yahtzee on how great the game is. | |
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Xenoblade Chronicles 1 was a fairly obscure Cult Classic when Shulk was added to Smash 4, only barely having been localized for Western audiences thanks to a JRPG localization fan campaign, not even getting a separate dub by Nintendo of America. Shulk's addition caused a large Newbie Boom, which coincided with the release of a well-timed port for the New 3DS and likely played a part in the game getting a full remaster on the Nintendo Switch. This repeated when Pyra and Mythra were added as DLC fighters for Ultimate, causing physical copies of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 to rapidly sell out. | |
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Alison Krauss & Union Station's popularity soared after the band Shenandoah featured Krauss on their 1995 hit "Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart", which in turn caused unexpected radio interest in Krauss' cover of Keith Whitley's "When You Say Nothing at All". Previously found on a 1994 tribute album to Whitley, the song was also included on Krauss' 1995 Greatest Hits Album Now That I've Found You: A Collection, which would go on to sell double-platinum. | |
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The popularity of Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood lead to people re-watching or introducing themselves to Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, which the show is a spin-off of, depending on whether they had heard of the original series during their childhood. The effect that Daniel Tiger had on the original Mister Rogers series was so huge that Twitch held two marathons of the show and two different movies about the show were produced in response to the show's boom in popularity. In addition, PBS brought back reruns of the show to their Sunday morning schedule, produced new DVDs of the show, and greenlit another Mister Rogers Neighborhood spin-off about Donkey Hodie. When said show eventually premiered, it did so well in making people interested in minor Mister Rogers characters that the PBS Kids channel added reruns to their schedule. | |
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Honestly, would anyone have known anything about some of the films riffed? The biggest beneficiary is Manos: The Hands of Fate (a documentary, two sequels, some videogame adaptations), but Time Chasers, The Final Sacrifice, Hobgoblins and The Giant Spider Invasion all benefited from being on MST3K. | |
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In the early days of Coast to Coast AM, whenever Art Bell mentioned his guest's website on the air, it frequently crashed under the weight of the audience. | |
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Plan 9 from Outer Space would be just a forgotten terrible No Budget 50s sci-fi if not for The Golden Turkey Awards listing it as the worst movie ever, along with "awarding" Ed Wood (who died 2 years prior in obscurity) as worst director, resulting in a surge of interest that made the movie and its author Cult Classics. | |
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Fountains of Wayne was an obscure '90s Power Pop group. They had had one semi-popular hit - "Stacy's Mom" - until Kingdom Hospital Poly boosted the popularity of "Red Dragon Tattoo." | |
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Pat Metheny Group, who supplied the ending theme to season two of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders ("Last Train Home") anticipated a burst in attention and capitalized on it by featuring shots from the accompanying credits sequence on the Japanese release of a Greatest Hits Album. | |
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Fire Emblem Heroes has done this to virtually every older game in the entire franchise. The older games were more obscure, with half of them never even leaving Japan, compared to the smash hits that were Awakening and Fates. However, exposure to other characters from older games has increased interest and demand for them, especially when the heroes in question are extremely good in the meta. The most apparent beneficiaries have been The Sacred Stones, Path of Radiance, and Genealogy of the Holy War. The Fire Emblem series wouldn't have gotten any interest outside of Japan at all if it weren't for Super Smash Bros. Melee including two characters from the franchise. This led to the Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade becoming the first game in the series to be released internationally. |
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Raiders of the Lost Ark caused the number of students studying archaeology to spike. | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 had this effect on many of the films it featured, all of which had originally been chosen because they were so obscure that the rights to broadcast them were cheap. In some cases, the bump was so effective that when the time came for finagling a film's rights for home video and DVD releases, the show could no longer afford them. The bump also works for its Spiritual Successor podcast, Mike Nelson's RiffTrax. The bonus for that is they don't actually need the rights to a film, as long as they don't let any of the films' sounds get on the actual podcast. Honestly, would anyone have known anything about some of the films riffed? The biggest beneficiary is Manos: The Hands of Fate (a documentary, two sequels, some videogame adaptations), but Time Chasers, The Final Sacrifice, Hobgoblins and The Giant Spider Invasion all benefited from being on MST3K. |
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Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning was released for the itch.io Meta Game Jam, where it got a good reception and came in second best, but mostly had a subdued reception outside of the site. It was arguably the Vinesauce stream of the game several days later that jumpstarted its popularity. | |
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On a series-specific example, Daredevil was cancelled in 2018, with its third and final season seeing a steep decline in viewership from Season 2. However, Charlie Cox and Vincent D'Onofrio reprising their roles as Matt Murdock and The Kingpin for Spider-Man: No Way Home and Hawkeye, respectively, led to a massive resurgence of interest in the series during the final weeks of 2021. The show even managed to crack Nielsen's Top 10 streaming list near the end of December. | |
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"Counting to 100,000 in one video" actually made MrBeast (yes, the same one who helped spread awareness of the PewDiePie vs T-Series rivalry, and the one who co-founded #TeamTrees) soar in popularity, even surpassing the 500K subscriber mark that he was going to get at the end of 2017. And yes, people have pretended to go even further. | |
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Johnson's main opponent in the election was Ken Livingstone, whose earlier mayoral campaigns had also benefited from several appearances on Have I Got News for You. Since Ken has been chosen as Boris' chief opponent in the next election, he has appeared on the show once more. | |
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The 1986 release of Top Gun sparked a 500% increase in recruitments to the United States Navy thanks to people wanting to become naval aviators like the protagonists, to the point that at some theaters, they set up booths outside hoping to attract patrons. They tried to repeat this strategy with the 1990 release of The Hunt for Red October, hoping to attract aspiring submariners the same way Top Gun attracted aspiring aviators. | |
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T.M. Scanlon's What We Owe to Each Other experienced a large spike in searches and purchases after being mentioned on The Good Place, as the philosophy of contractualism is a running theme in the show. | |
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In 2013, Australian pop-rock band 5 Seconds of Summer were selected as One Direction's opening act for their second tour. Unsurprisingly, this spurred international interest in the band and led to a #1 album the next year. Their exposure to their fans through that made them go from an obscure YouTube cover band one of Australia's most successful Pop Rock acts of all time. Most bands similar to them have to wait years before reaching even a fraction of the kind of success they've had. | |
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A season two episode of The West Wing, "Somebody's Going To Emergency, Somebody's Going To Jail" led to an upsurge of interest in the Peters Projection, in both online searches and actual map sales, after it was prominently featured in a subplot. | |
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'90s R&B group Jodeci's song "Freek'n You" was then featured as the ending theme to the first half of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind, with their Greatest Hits Album being re-released with a JoJo themed cover. | |
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Season 2 Episode 4 of Cheap Seats featured a reference to Eddy Raven's obscure 1985 single "I Wanna Hear It from You". Any upload of this song online will very likely have multiple people commenting on the fact that they were exposed to Raven's music through this one joke. | |
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Similarly, every time The Angry Video Game Nerd reviews a game, The Other Wiki strains to cope with an avalanche of fans adding trivia entries for the game in question. Probably the best example of this is Plumbers Don't Wear Ties. The Nerd's "Bad Game Cover Art" review of Rallo Gump not only brought more attention to the obscure homebrew game but also sent people flooding to forgotten 5-year-old videos of the game in action (the Nerd's review only showed the cover art, not the game). |
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A strange version with Guru Larry and Wez being the show itself, as many people didn't even know it was on Channel Awesome until #ChangeTheChannel resulted in everyone outside of the Walkers, Brad Jones, and Larry Bundy, Jr. himself bolting after stories of mismanagement, sexism, favoritism, hypocrisy, ignoring producers' concerns, and unsafe filming conditions on the part of the Walkers and Mike Michaud; that Mike Ellis sexually harassed someone; and that the late Justin Carmichal was a sexual predator emerged — and a lot of interest came from not only Bundy being one of the only two who isn't Doug left, but Bundy being ballsy enough to openly admitting to only doing so as a final "fuck you" to the management for ignoring him during his time there and to watch the site implode. | |
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He also had discussed a once-obscure series called The Nutshack (calling it the worst animated series of the 2000s), which may or may not have helped fuel it into a full-fledged meme. (Although the first one among the Youtube cartoon community to mention this show anywhere was RebelTaxi, as noted here.) | |
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Another The Ed Sullivan Show guest who boosted both his own profile and the show's ratings was Elvis Presley. | |
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Toonami's airing of Evangelion 1.11 to commemorate the block's 15th anniversary managed to boost the sales of the Blu-Ray release of not only 1.11, but Evangelion 2.22 as well, to the point where both movies managed to top the Amazon anime charts◊. | |
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Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters got a bump from Terry Bogard's inclusion in Ultimate. Both franchises were considered fairly obscure and niche outside of Japan (and Mexico in the case of The King of Fighters); Fatal Fury had not had a proper game release since 1999. Terry got Smash players curious about essentially a sister Fighting Game. | |
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The Ink Spots were a forgotten early Doo-wop group from 1934 to 1954. Then their music was featured in Fallout, Fallout 3, Fallout 4 and later BioShock, resulting in a huge upswing in interest in their music. | |
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The Caretaker and especially Everywhere at the End of Time has renewed interest in the ballroom jazz and other music that the project samples to Nightmare Fuel effect. Most notably, the song "Heartaches" as performed by interwar singer Al Bowlly due to being the Concept Album's most used leitmotif. | |
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Uncle Kracker's 2009-2010 hit "Smile" was originally only serviced to pop and AC, but after Country Music stations in Detroit began spinning it so heavily that it entered the country airplay charts, the song was remixed for the country format and went on to become a top 10 country hit. | |
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When Duck Hunt was first released in Japan in 1984, it was still pretty early during the Famicom's lifespan, barely a blip in most people's radar as a result. The game's main novelty at the time was the fact that it was one of the first games to support the Famicom's light gun controller alongside Wild Gunman and Hogan's Alley. However, its inclusion as a pack-in game in most NES console bundles, initially in the Deluxe Set with the R.O.B. robotic buddy, later on in the more popular Action Set as a 2-in-1 cartridge alongside Super Mario Bros., led it to become one of the most widely distributed Nintendo game for the console, ensuring a presence in the collective consciousness of NES players. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is littered with references to Hirohiko Araki's love of western popular music, and the anime adaptation takes it further by featuring various real-world songs as the ending themes to each part. As a result, a number of musicians saw renewed attention thanks to JoJo fans being exposed to them and checking them out: Yes saw a surge in popularity as a result of "Roundabout" being used as the ending theme of the 2012 anime adaption of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency. In fact, the band linked to the ED on Twitter, thanking the Japanese fans, and mentioned that they hoped to be touring there again later on. Pat Metheny Group, who supplied the ending theme to season two of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders ("Last Train Home") anticipated a burst in attention and capitalized on it by featuring shots from the accompanying credits sequence on the Japanese release of a Greatest Hits Album. Darren Hayes, formerly of Savage Garden (who supplied the ending theme for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable, "I Want You"), tweeted◊ that he was "thrilled" by the positive reception by fans, and spoke about how cool the show was (the tweet has since been deleted, though). Their 2015 compilation The Singles was re-issued in Japan with an Alternate Album Cover depicting Josuke Higashikata. '90s R&B group Jodeci's song "Freek'n You" was then featured as the ending theme to the first half of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind, with their Greatest Hits Album being re-released with a JoJo themed cover. Enigma's re-released their Greatest Hits Album with a Giorno-themed cover thanks to "Modern Crusaders" being used as the second ending theme to Golden Wind. Robert Fripp of King Crimson embraced the attention brought to the band by the antagonist of Golden Wind having a Stand named after them, making a Facebook post acknowledging the various memes surrounding the Stand's difficult-to-explain ability. In fact, many songs, bands, albums, or artists in general have received renewed popularity thanks to their titles and names being used to name characters, places, and Stand powers in the show. Names such as Killer Queen, Gold Experience, Foo Fighters, etc. However, this has had the side effect of JoJo fans spamming uploads of songs referenced in the series with JoJo-related comments, to the annoyance of the artists' fans. |
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Party Project was initially a very obsure fan-game until the Party Crashers started playing it, in which it then started getting more attention. | |
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Saturday Night Live: Adele shot to international superstardom when appearing as a musical guest during the same episode that featured Sarah Palin. She was already an acclaimed singer prior to the episode but it was her appearance on SNL that truly introduced her to the world and gave her the Grammy for "Best New Artist". Although that was back during her 19 era; it wasn't until 21 that she truly became a star. Season 44, Episode 19 featured a skit in which a man named Raz P. Berry stalks a woman he wrongly believes to be his unfaithful girlfriend. Many were surprised to learn that this was based on a real-life song called "The Rain" by Oran "Juice" Jones. Many comments on the music video are by people admitting to seeing the skit first and discovering the song later. |
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And if there was any doubt about its power before, 2013 cements its status as the Colbert Bump of indie music. Vance Joy won with "Riptide" over "Get Lucky" and "Royals", which were two of the biggest songs globally that year, and "Do I Wanna Know?", which wasn't as big (and was just starting to gain traction at that point) but still had a considerably higher profile than "Riptide". Before this, Vance Joy didn't even have a record deal and was only known in-station through the Unearthed podcast. Afterwards, the song hit the Top 10 in several countries and netted Vance a deal with Atlantic. | |
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Their playthroughs of the Endless Ocean games also earned Hayley Westenra several new Twitter followers, as her song "Prayer" was prominently featured in the first game. | |
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The works of bo en, especially "My Time", shot up in views and comments when the aforementioned song was used in a trailer for OMORI, and then even more when the game was Saved from Development Hell. | |
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UB40's "Red Red Wine" had been a #1 hit in the UK in 1983 and got to a respectable #34 on the Billboard Hot 100 in America the next year. In June of 1988, a DJ named Guy Zapoleon at KZZP in Phoenix, Arizona played it on his show as part of a recurring feature called "Would've Been, Should've Been", where he spotlighted songs from the past that he thought deserved to be bigger hits than they were. After getting a huge response, Zapoleon convinced A&M Records to re-release it, and it hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. | |
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Wham!'s "Last Christmas" got this after it was featured in a scene in episode 2 of Dash & Lily. Although the song was already popular, its appearance in the show was enough to have it top the singles chart in the UK for the very first time since its release. | |
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"I Want You" by Savage Garden had this twice: first when Rosie O'Donnell mocked the song's fast-paced vocal delivery on her talk show, and again a decade later when it was used as the ending theme for Jojos Bizarre Adventure's fourth season, "Diamond Is Unbreakable". | |
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Wensleydale cheese has been saved from obscurity by Wallace & Gromit. Wallace is obsessed with cheese in general but Wensleydale is his favourite. | |
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The musical Hamilton did this for Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, along with several other historical figures that weren't as well known as the likes of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Burr, in particular, was previously remembered for absolutely nothing else other than being the guy who killed Hamilton in a duel. | |
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Lordi garnered considerable attention and interest after performing "Hard Rock Hallelujah" at the Eurovision Song Contest. | |
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The Oprah Winfrey Show brought on Barack Obama before his presidential run (whom Oprah famously declared "The One"), Dr. Phil (who started off as a one-off, then a weekly occurrence, and now has his own spinoff), Rachael Ray, and Dr. Oz. In fact, Dr. Oz himself has this in the form of "Dr. Oz effect", where certain things he promotes on his show do, in fact, get a bump in sales. In fact, the only Oprah-promoted talker who didn't succeed was Iyanla, who ran afoul of the inverse of this trope, losing all credibility and ratings after a row with Oprah, after she rode a bump to her own talker. The women made up on the eve of Oprah's final show. | |
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They got another one in 2018 with their Freddie Mercury/Queen Biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, which helped make the eponymous song the most-streamed song from the 20th century on Spotify. Also, the song "I'm in Love With My Car", one of the few relatively obscure songs of Queen's discography, gained a popularity boost after the film's release, mainly due to curiosity regarding why it's made as the film's Running Gag. | |
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Interest in LoadingReadyRun briefly increased after Graham's (fake) viral video got an actual Colbert Bump. | |
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Night Mind's video and discovery stream on Welcome Home (Clown Illustrations) brought far more attention to the ARG. | |
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Team Fortress 2 has this effect on games that offer in-game promotional items as pre-order bonuses, particularly if promotional weapons are being offered. | |
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Minecraft sold around 1000 copies after being referenced on the Valve blog. Shortly afterward, Penny Arcade made a series of comics about it, which led to 7000 more sales and a server meltdown. | |
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On the topic of Stephen King, his short story "The Jaunt" from Skeleton Crew recieved a massive bump in popularity and recognition due to it being a direct influence on the Team Fortress 2 fan film Emesis Blue. | |
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The 1997 Hulk Hogan film Assault on Devil's Island scored a 4.2 rating against the WWF's Survivor Series Flashback special (which only scored a 2.8) thanks to WCW tacking on the entire contract signing between Hogan and Sting for Starrcade 1997 during the commercial breaks. | |
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Tom Petty saw an increase in streams in late 2023 after a lesser-known song of his, "Love Is A Long Road" from 1989's Full Moon Fever, was featured in the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI. | |
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Waterparks got an uptick in attention after their song "Telephone" off of their 2019 album fandom made it into Heartstopper, a Netflix series based on a webcomic about LGBTQ+ teenagers at a British grammar school. | |
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This can occur any time an artist has their song appear as the "Single of the Week" on iTunes; Banks, Lorde, Imagine Dragons, CHVRCHES, The 1975, The Fray, and many more artists have benefited from this. Sometimes their songs may even be featured twice, like in the case of Walk the Moon ("Anna Sun" in 2012 and "Shut Up and Dance" in 2014, respectively). Even when the free song system was overhauled in early 2015, you can still expect artists featured as "Free on iTunes" to have their popularity boosted by it. Sadly, free songs were finally given the boot in June 2015, after the release of Apple Music. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: The show itself wouldn't have become the phenomenon it was if 4chan hadn't gotten hold of it after discovering an article bashing the show. The show homaged Sondheim numbers twice during season 1. Lots of people had never even heard of Into the Woods and Sunday in the Park with George, until they watched the show. In addition, the band Hey Ocean! has received a significant boost in popularity because of singer Ashleigh Ball's voice work on the show. This can be said for the international popularity of One More Girl (a Canadian sister country group featuring Britt McKillip, the voice of Princess Cadance), and Apple Bloom's voice actress Michelle Creber (who has released three albums since the show began). And any popular pony Fan Vid will cause the music used to get a lot of hits on YouTube as well, with a lot of users with pony avatars showing up and commenting (and other people complaining about them doing so.) |
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Matt Smith's bow-tie wearing Eleventh Doctor led to a dramatic increase in bow tie sales. | |
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The Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series is widely considered to be a major factor in the revived public interest in skateboarding as a whole during the early 2000s, which was only aided by Tony Hawk himself being the first skater to perform a 900*two and a half spins a few months prior to the game's launch, boosting the stock of Hawk's likeness. In addition, the games often provide a publicity boost to the ska, punk, and hip hop artists that are featured in its fully licensed soundtrack, in no small part to how closely tied some songs are to the series, such as 'Superman', "Police Truck", "Guerilla Radio", and "Ace of Spades". | |
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Walker Hayes' "Fancy Like" contains Product Placement for Applebee's restaurants, including their Oreo shake. Due to the success of the song (thanks to going viral on TikTok), Applebee's used the song in commercials and even brought their Oreo shakes out of retirement. | |
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Also, once upon a time Markiplier played a little indie horror game called Five Nights at Freddy's. Cue huge fandom growing almost overnight, a series of sequel games, and the indie horror series becoming a merchandising juggernaut. | |
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Todd in the Shadows, reviewing "We Are Young" by fun. and "Somebody That I Used to Know" by Gotye together, after realizing that the two songs' going to #1 on the Billboard charts consecutively despite being rather left-field pop hits was largely due to Glee, went as far to say that "Glee is the new MTV." There's a good reason for this: "We Are Young" first gained attention when it was featured in the episode "Hold On to Sixteen" but never peaked until after being used in a Chevy commercial that played during the Super Bowl a few months later; inversely, "Somebody That I Used To Know" took off in the States well before Glee covered it in the episode "Big Brother", but reached #1 the week after it was covered. | |
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An episode of podcast Reply All brought renewed attention to Evan Olson's late 90s single "So Much Better". Notable because the entire premise of the episode was finding and identifying this previously obscure song based on one man's memory of it. At the time the podcast was made, the song was forgotten enough that typing lyrics into search engines or trying to use apps like Soundhound note the show went so far as to hire musicians to do a studio session and try to replicate what the man could remember of the song, just to have something to feed to song identification apps or play to people in the radio and music industries who might have heard the original version didn't turn up anything relevant, as the song was long out of print and had no internet presence. Olson himself put the full song on YouTube after the podcast was released, and it got enough streams that its parent album One Room, was officially released digitally for the first time by his former label Universal. | |
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2011: Gotye wins with "Somebody That I Used to Know". Largely obscure outside of Australia, the song becomes a #1 hit in most countries, including the US, and wins a Grammy. Unfortunately, he ended up a one-hit wonder. | |
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Jerry Wallace's 1972 song "If You Leave Me Tonight I'll Cry" had its popularity boosted on the charts after it was featured in the Night Gallery episode "The Tune in Dan's Cafe". | |
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Spike and Barley Play's let's play of Sven Co-op 's Afraid of Monsters port caused it to explode into fame, which unfortunately directly led to its permanent shut-down. | |
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After being mentioned in The Avengers, Shawarma has shown a dramatic rise in popularity. | |
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Cain once remarked on his Twitter how he got the bump after Stephen Colbert declared him the winner of a Republican debate. Colbert corrected him by saying that Cain must appear on his show to receive the bump. | |
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The Spoony Experiment: When reviewing Bloodwings: Pumpkinhead's Revenge, Spoony mentioned how hard it was to find any info on this game, calling it the game the internet forgot. Once his video was released, let's just say that there's no more shortage of info on this game... In a smaller example, Mazes and Monsters didn't have its own trope page until after Spoony reviewed it. And let's not forget REB BROWN, MOTHERFUCKERS! |
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Rebel Inc. got a rather nasty example. The game is about bringing a war-torn country under control from insurgents, however, the game surged in popularity after the Afghanistan government and army collapsed within a few weeks of fighting against Taliban forces once the American military contingent left the country in 2021. | |
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Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead was a relatively unknown manga in the West even though its official English translation by VIZ Media began in February 2021. It got a surge in interest following Gigguk's sponsored review of the manga, to the point that pre-orders were sold out within weeks of the review airing. | |
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Titanfall 2 became an Acclaimed Flop as it was released in a busy 2016 holiday season. However, the success of the free-to-play battle royale spin-off Apex Legends, which is set in the same universe, has led to a resurgence in Titanfall 2 playerbase. | |
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A major reason why TRON: Legacy came to be was because of Kingdom Hearts II, which includes a world based on the original film. The world, called Space Paranoids, became quite popular with the fanbase, and gained the origin film new fans. When The Grid was confirmed for KH3D, many fans rejoiced! | |
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Wikipedia reports that the sales of songs included in Brütal Legend went up 700% after the game came out. The best example is Brocas Helm, who before, was so obscure they could not be found for digital purchase anywhere, but afterward, received a massive boost in popularity, and became available due to demand. | |
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After the release of 2006's Night at the Museum, the number of visitors at the American Museum of Natural History, which the movie modeled after and where it was set in the 1993 Film of the Book version, increased by 50,000 the previous year during the holiday season and 50,000 more between December 22, 2006, and January 2, 2007. | |
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Jurassic Park minted a bunch of paleontologists. | |
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Some learned about Berserk from "Guts VS Nightmare" on DEATH BATTLE!. | |
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Even the revived Toonami on [adult swim] is still dishing out Colbert Bumps. Deadman Wonderland, much like Big O, bombed in its native Japan, but during its run on Toonami to promote its DVD release, it managed to rival Bleach in ratings just after its first night on the block. | |
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When Mark Oshiro began reviewing Buffy the Vampire Slayer, his blog was linked to by a popular Buffy fansite which resulted in a flood of new readers that crashed his server and forced him to find a new server to prevent this from happening again. | |
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Glass Animals' song "Heat Waves" topped the 2020 countdown; later on in the last few months of 2021, it cracked the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, around a year after release. | |
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Not many gamers knew about the F-Zero series before Captain Falcon was added in Super Smash Bros. 64, upon which the bounty hunter exploded in popularity due to his Memetic Badass personality. F-Zero GX is the series' most popular game, but because of the fact that his franchise (mostly) ended after 2004, but has still remained in Smash Bros., many fans associate Captain Falcon more with Smash over his home series. | |
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British band The Jellybotties won't ever exactly be tearing up the charts in their homeland or anywhere else, but they experienced a bump in popularity when Alan Davies sang a few bars of "Peter Cushing Lives in Whitstable" on QI. It's now their most popular song by far. For proof of this, type "Peter Cushing" into Google and the song's title is the sixth auto-complete option. It's the first auto-complete result when searching for "Peter Cushing" on YouTube. |
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In a similar vein, Jesse Cox's collaboration with Josh "indiestatik" Mattingly, The Greenlight, is designed to do this for indie games currently up for approval to be added to Steam. | |
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The reggaeton song "Despacito" by Puerto Rican musicians Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee was already popular in Spanish-speaking countries as well as on the U.S. Latin charts, and it's no wonder how it's become the most-viewed YouTube video of all time in just seven months. However, the remix with Justin Bieber got it international attention, although first only to Bieber's fanbase. It continued to blow up afterwards, eventually being pushed to the top of the Hot 100, making it the first mostly-Spanish song and the first song that primarily is not in the English languagenote (other than a verse by Bieber at the beginning and one translated line by Luis Fonsi, the song is entirely in Spanish) to do so since "Macarena" in 1996. On The Vodafone Big Top 40 in the UK, "Despacito" held the no. 1 spot for eleven weeks. This beats the previous holder, "Uptown Funk" by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars, by four weeks. And that's just five weeks away from the longest song at no. 1 on any UK chart ("(Everything I Do) I Do It for You�). It took until July 30, 2017, when it was finally knocked off its top spot by "Feels". A similar thing happened with "Súbeme La Radio" by Enrique Iglesias. In July 2017, it got a remix by Jamaican rapper Sean Paul and immediately shot right to no. 3 on said chart. Happened again in 2017 with "Mi Gente" by Colombian artist J Balvin and French artist Willy William, which had a remix made featuring Beyoncé (with the proceeds going to hurricane relief charities). The song went to #1 on the Billboard Top 100 within a week. |
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In Only Murders in the Building, the podcast explodes in popularity after it's mentioned on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. | |
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Medusa actually appears very little in media made before 1981. Featuring her as an antagonist in Clash of the Titans caused her 'popularity' to skyrocket, and she's now one of the most famous figures from Greek Mythology. | |
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Portal gave a bump to Jonathan Coulton thanks to "Still Alive"; Portal 2 gave a bump to The National thanks to "Exile Vilify". | |
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2012: "Thrift Shop" by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis won. For reference, like Mumford and Sons and most other frequent Hottest 100 entrants, the duo is true indie, with no record label. Even more anomalous, this is one of only two rap songs to win in the alternative station poll (the other was "Humble" by Kendrick Lamar). The week it was #1 on the Hottest 100, it hit #1 in the States! This is somewhat less surprising as the song had been gaining steam in the US for about a month. | |
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BTS members have done this to huge effect; them mentioning a song on social media leads to a huge amount of attention for the artists they feature, many of them indie musicians in a wide variety of genres. Band leader RM in particular is known for drawing attention to art museums and books. With the number of people who go to restaurants and other places that the band members have visited, it's no wonder they became official Korean tourism ambassadors, with the band's existence seen as a major boon to the South Korean tourism industry. | |
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The same thing happened with Sia and her 2016 song "Unstoppable" after it was used in a 2022 Samsung Galaxy commercial. | |
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Dido's "Thank You" was first released as part of the soundtrack to 1998's Sliding Doors, and then on her debut album No Angel in September 2000 to modest success. Then in November, it was sampled in Eminem's "Stan", considered to be one of his greatest and most popular songs, and its popularity helped slingshot "Thank You" into even greater mainstream attention, entering the Billboard Top 10 in January 2001 and staying in the Hot 100 until September, considered one of the biggest hits of the year in its own right. | |
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Joey Gregorash and his hit wedding song "Together" gained popularity after it was encouraged to be listened to throughout the K-On! Palcomix story "On This Day". | |
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Two consecutive bumps for Spiral Knights. When the game was integrated with Steam, there was a sudden influx of players. Later that day, Team Fortress 2 updated and added a hat themed around one of the helmets of the game, which created another rush of players, some asking how to get the new hat. | |
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ARMA 2, a realistic FPS/simulator, had a huge increase in sales when DayZ (a zombie mod for the game) was released. | |
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In 2020, Tom Fulp's Pico gained some new fans thanks to Friday Night Funkin' including the titular protagonist as a Guest Fighter. | |
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Mort the Chicken was obscure at best on its release and years after. It gained a significant attention boost in 2023 when Mort was featured in a level of Pizza Tower, as an official crossover with full permission of the former game's creator. | |
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LPers also do this to each other. Notably, when The Runaway Guys (a collaboration of Chuggaaconroy, NintendoCapriSun and ProtonJon, three of the most popular LPers on YouTube) featured JoshJepson as a guest player, the latter experienced a significant surge in popularity. | |
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Tony Bennett credits his appearance on SCTV with introducing him favorably to a new generation and reviving his career. | |
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A more direct example would be "We Are Number One" from LazyTown. It was just another song from the show, far less known than the likes of "The Cake Song", "You Are a Pirate", or "Bing Bang", before it became subjected to the YouTube Poop word replacement fad (which was in the midst of its own Colbert Bump resurgence); afterwards its popularity grew to epitomic levels and, due to donations, even caused the actor playing Robbie Rotten to recover from pancreatic cancer and embrace the meme in a livestream! This has also applied, to slightly less extent, with The Nutshack theme, the entire Bee Movie, "Let it Grow" and "How Bad Can I Be" from The Lorax (2012), and another LazyTown song, "The Mine Song", among others. | |
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While Natalia Lafourcade was already extremely famous at the time, she gained more worldwide fame after her performance of "Remember Me" appeared in Coco. | |
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Dragon Ball Z and Sailor Moon were initially unknown in America, as they both failed to garner success during their initial syndicated runs and were only partially dubbed by The Ocean Group and DIC Entertainment, respectively. Then they were picked up by Cartoon Network for airing on Toonami, where they managed to net the block some major ratings. This increase in popularity also resulted in both shows getting dubbed further. | |
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The Tulsa race riot (also called the Greenwood Massacre or the Black Wall Street Massacre) was one of the most successfully-obscured acts of racial violence in American history until it was depicted as part of the backstory of Watchmen (2019). Afterwards, growing awareness of the event led to it being added to the Oklahoma public school curriculum. | |
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The odds of a third-place runner-up on American Idol going to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 are small enough (it's actually never happened before), while the odds of a third-place runner-up on Canadian Idol going to #1 in the States are next to nothing...but that's exactly what happened to Carly Rae Jepsen and "Call Me Maybe" after Justin Bieber praised the song on Twitter, putting in motion what later became a huge musical and memetic phenomenon. Unfortunately, this didn't really apply to Jepsen herself, as after only one more hitnote which technically wasn't even her song but an Owl City song she performed guest vocals on, she faded from the mainstream, though she has nevertheless maintained a heavy cult following over the years (including the unofficial title of being the "Queen of Gay Twitter"). | |
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In a smaller example, Mazes and Monsters didn't have its own trope page until after Spoony reviewed it. | |
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Taken to its literal extent with Stephen Colbert's self-proclaimed "rivalry" with Korean pop idol Rain after his appearance in the Speed Racer movie. This led to Ninja Assassin and Rain winning an MTV Movie Award. | |
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Mega Man was well-known and popular in the NES days, but Capcom hadn't given him or his franchise much attention. Then he showed up in Smash 4 — and was designed so lovingly and accurately that it brought a rush of nostalgia. The renewed interest led to the release of Mega Man 11 in 2017. | |
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And yet another one from its use on How I Met Your Mother ("Arrivederci, Fiero"), which is how most younger fans discovered it. | |
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Mario Party DS was barely recognized outside of the Mario fandom until a series of videos documenting (fictional) anti-piracy traps in the game gained viral popularity. | |
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Speaking of Gran Turismo, not many people ever knew about The Cardigans before their prominent appearance in GT2's soundtrack with "My Favourite Game", which would later become their Signature Song (second only to "Lovefool"). | |
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Sports Illustrated has a strange relationship with the people that appear on their cover—everybody wants to be on it, but there's supposedly a curse related to whoever gets the coveted cover photo. Ditto for Madden NFL and its collegiate sister series NCAA Football. This is usually referred to as the "Madden Curse". This "curse" can be explained by a concept called "regression to the mean". On average, people tend to perform close to their average (their "mean"). Athletes that get a cover in Sports Illustrated usually having an unusually high point in their career. Soon after, it seems like they got worse, but they really just went back to playing closer to their average. |
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Unless you're heavily into mecha anime, chances are that you've been introduced to titles such as Raideen and Daltanious by Super Robot Wars. | |
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Doing stand-up on The Tonight Show during Johnny Carson's stint was a major career boost for comedians. Being called over to the couch would pretty much guarantee overnight success. Among the comedians who got the honor were Robin Williams, Drew Carey, Ellen DeGeneres, Eddie Murphy, Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Carrey, Steven Wright, Roseanne Barr, Bill Maher, Jeff Dunham and Jeff Foxworthy. | |
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Terraria was an obscure indie game until the Minecraft devs mentioned it on their blog. Sales shot up to the point that it was higher on Steam's bestseller list than Portal 2 for several days. | |
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Cradle of Filth maintain a cult following in their native UK but tend to be more popular in continental Europe. However, they received a brief boost in popularity in their home country when they were revealed to be Richmond's favourite band on The IT Crowd. | |
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Ditto Linkara and History of Power Rangers. Carter Grayson, the Red Ranger of Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue was previously considered the most boring character of the most boring season, and generally disliked as a very bland example of a Red Ranger. But Linkara "instantly liked this guy" and made a case for him, and he became a fan favorite overnight. | |
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Wikipedia's report of the 25 most popular pages of the week has a tendency for an entry boosted by Reddit (specially r/todayilearned) - though the author(s) often complain how searching Reddit to find out said proof engine is not always easy - when it's not a Google Doodle. | |
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The Super Smash Bros. series has done this with a ton of video game franchises. It's a series of Massive Multiplayer Crossover Dream Match Games, so it naturally exposes many new audiences to video games they had forgotten or never knew about to begin with. EarthBound (1994) got a boost from Ness's appearance as an unlockable character in Super Smash Bros. 64. Few Western fans were familiar with the series, as EarthBound had flopped in the US and never made it to Europe at all. Ness's Smash appearance got fans interested. Brawl introduced Lucas from Mother 3. However, EarthBound was always kind of an Ensemble Dark Horse among Nintendo franchises — it was years before EarthBound was released on the Virtual Console in the West, and Mother 3 never made it outside Japan, so Western fans made bootlegs and fan translations. Not many gamers knew about the F-Zero series before Captain Falcon was added in Super Smash Bros. 64, upon which the bounty hunter exploded in popularity due to his Memetic Badass personality. F-Zero GX is the series' most popular game, but because of the fact that his franchise (mostly) ended after 2004, but has still remained in Smash Bros., many fans associate Captain Falcon more with Smash over his home series. Fire Emblem got a boost from Marth and Roy's appearances in Melee. Before this, Fire Emblem was a Japan-exclusive franchise, meaning that as far as the West was concerned, Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros.". But interest in the franchise made it one of Nintendo's major moneymakers on the 3DS (where Fire Emblem: Awakening was its Killer App) and Switch (where Fire Emblem: Three Houses became the franchise's best-selling game in record time). Kid Icarus was vaulted by Pit's entry into Brawl. Before then, the franchise had just two games, on the NES and Game Boy, both of which were nearly forgotten and overshadowed by Nintendo's more popular franchises as soon as they were released. Pit's appearance in Brawl came with a redesign that generated new interest in the franchise, leading to the development of Kid Icarus: Uprising, which became a Killer App for the 3DS. Mega Man was well-known and popular in the NES days, but Capcom hadn't given him or his franchise much attention. Then he showed up in Smash 4 — and was designed so lovingly and accurately that it brought a rush of nostalgia. The renewed interest led to the release of Mega Man 11 in 2017. Castlevania, much like Mega Man, was considered an NES classic but had pretty much dried up by The New '10s. Then Ultimate included both Simon and Richter Belmont, leading to a spike in interest. While Konami still hasn't released a new Castlevania on a Nintendo system, they did release the Castlevania Classic Collection, comprising of the franchise's NES and SNES-era games. Bayonetta was long considered an Acclaimed Flop, but the title character's appearance in Smash 4 was key in generating interest in the game and its sequel. Indeed, Bayonetta is a DLC fighter who won a months-long fan vote on who would get that spot. Dragon Quest got a bump in the West from the addition of the Hero as a DLC character for Ultimate. While Dragon Quest was always a cultural phenomenon in Japan and considered the definitive RPG franchise, it was considered niche in the West as the "definitive JRPG" spot went to Final Fantasy. Hero's inclusion in Smash led to a large increase in Amazon pre-orders for Dragon Quest XI, and Dragon Quest Builders 2 shipped more than a million copies after its worldwide release. Banjo-Kazooie, after the franchise went dormant since 2008, got some interest in Japan after the title characters were introduced to Ultimate. When Masahiro Sakurai announced the pair, he mentioned that their games can be played on the Xbox One, which led to a noticeable increase in searches and mentions of the system. Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters got a bump from Terry Bogard's inclusion in Ultimate. Both franchises were considered fairly obscure and niche outside of Japan (and Mexico in the case of The King of Fighters); Fatal Fury had not had a proper game release since 1999. Terry got Smash players curious about essentially a sister Fighting Game. Xenoblade Chronicles 1 was a fairly obscure Cult Classic when Shulk was added to Smash 4, only barely having been localized for Western audiences thanks to a JRPG localization fan campaign, not even getting a separate dub by Nintendo of America. Shulk's addition caused a large Newbie Boom, which coincided with the release of a well-timed port for the New 3DS and likely played a part in the game getting a full remaster on the Nintendo Switch. This repeated when Pyra and Mythra were added as DLC fighters for Ultimate, causing physical copies of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 to rapidly sell out. |
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One of the reasons Helldivers 2 became a huge runaway hit was because it received a glowing review from the hosts of the podcast Distractible across several episodes, alongside positive reviews given by several other Youtubers and Twitchers. | |
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Mel Tormé enjoyed a career upswing thanks to his appearances on Night Court. | |
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Cobra Kai: The creators wanted Johnny's drink of choice to be an American beer, that wasn't a light beer, and relatively obscure without being out of the mainstream. They landed on Coors Banquet. Since the show went on air sales of Coors Banquet, particularly to people under 35, have sky-rocketed at the time of seasonal releases. | |
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