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Newbie Boom

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Newbie Boom	comment	The moment in the lifetime of a community, usually a fandom, when the number of newcomers explodes. This is often the result of a remake, an adaptation, an English translation, a Colbert Bump or any other development that introduces something formerly obscure to a whole lot of new folks. These inevitably rush to find out as much as they can about this new big thing. Bad things can happen when they meet the original community. Throw in a little ignorance of the source material atop that, and a most beautiful chaos is sure to quickly erupt. There are no examples of it being used as a weapon of retaliation, as shown here. Yet. Compare and contrast The Red Stapler, Colbert Bump, Song Association. Eternal September was Usenet's great Newbie Boom in 1993. See also Revival by Commercialization and Gateway Series for those shows, movies, video games, etc. which triggered the boom in the first place, and Fandom Life Cycle which is relevant to this trope.
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Newbie Boom / int_10ddd3d5	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess triggered another one thanks to being a simultaneous early title for the Wii and swan song for the GameCube, and also for returning the series to an aesthetic and structure similar to that of the aforementioned Ocarina of Time when the franchise was still reeling from backlash towards Majora's Mask and The Wind Waker's attempts to move away from aspects of the formula.
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Newbie Boom / int_158b0cbb	comment	Despite it being off the air at the time, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood got this in 2018 due to both the documentary film Won't You Be My Neighbor? and its 50th anniversary that same year, which was mainly promoted through its sister show. It even got to the point where several PBS stations re-added weekly airings of the show in wake of the sudden trend, and greenlit another spin-off of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
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Newbie Boom / int_160c1407	comment	Metallica has four big moments: the music video for "One", as it let the MTV audience know them; Metallica, aka The Black Album, which hit #1 on the charts for making their music more accessible and having hits such as "Enter Sandman" and "Sad But True"; Guitar Hero, which even had a whole game centered around Metallica; and the inclusion of "Master of Puppets" in the season 4 finale of Stranger Things, which not only exposed the band's music to younger audiences but also allowed the song to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 thirty-six years after the album was originally released.
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Newbie Boom / int_1a1a594f	comment	Battlefield 2: Specific to Australia, a year after the game was released Pizza Hut ran a promotional campaign where in addition to 2 pizzas, a drink and a garlic bread you could also choose one of games Need For Speed Most Wanted, The Sims 2 or Battlefield 2, a first person shooter that was more complicated than most of the competition shooters of the time. A massive amount of people purchased the deal and picked Battlefield 2, leading to a huge uptick in the player count with "Pizza Hut noobs" who had no idea how to play the game. This caused chaos for months until the players picked up the game or those who didn't get it dropped away.
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Newbie Boom / int_1a56dc57	comment	Animal Crossing: Wild World was a Breakthrough Hit for the franchise as a result of being released on a much more popular system than the previous Nintendo GameCube entry and the game overall having a much more active marketing campaign. Wild World was one of the best selling Nintendo DS games, and thus helped sparked interest in the series.
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Newbie Boom / int_1bdeba5a	comment	The X-Men were put on the backburner at Marvel for several years due to the deal surrounding the film series keeping the adaptation rights of all mutants and associated characters in Fox's hands rather than their own. A majority of the cast was either killed off or Brought Down to Normal, remaining members were dispersed among other teams that didn't have much to do with mutants, characters often fought each other or other heroes instead of villains, and when the company moved to establish The Inhumans as a replacement for X-Men and mutants the brand was only pushed down further. But then the 2019 Soft Reboot House of X and Powers of X led by Jonanthan Hickman established an all-new status quo for mutantkind that resurrected and repowered many characters and burst onto the scene with a multitude of books - most of which were hugely successful because the new stories provided an optimal starting point for new readers. Not only are the current lines seeing critical praise, but fans are using them to dig into past stories as well.
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Newbie Boom / int_1c73626	comment	PAW Patrol experienced one after the premiere of Mighty Pups because of extensive marketing for the special at Wal-Mart.
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Newbie Boom / int_20eec977	comment	Story of Seasons gets this every once and a while. In the early 2000s to well into the seventh gaming generation most fans came into the series with Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life, Friends of Mineral Town, or their Distaff Counterpart games. A few years later, many entered the fandom through Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility, Harvest Moon: Animal Parade, or Harvest Moon: A New Beginning thanks to the Cast Full of Pretty Boys. There's a bit of a drift between older fans and newer fans.
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Newbie Boom / int_2162a284	comment	MS Paint Adventures started having a massive increase in readership from around the end of Problem Sleuth to the first two act of Homestuck. The introduction of Homestuck's trolls, a boon for shippers and roleplayers of all kinds, caused an influx of readers who were interested mostly in that one part of the comic (much to the chagrin of many older fans).
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Newbie Boom / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem: Fire Emblem: Awakening. While Super Smash Bros. Melee was what scored international interest in the Fire Emblem series, with Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade being the first entry to leave Japanese shores, the series would remain quite niche. All games after The Blazing Blade would sell rather poorly, to the point where the developers thought they'd have to shelf the franchise entirely after one last game. That one last game? Awakening, which not only became the first entry in the series to sell more than a million copies, but also completely revitalized the franchise and finally made the titles popular overseas, which is where the bulk of those newfound sales originated from. You can see why all three of the game's main protagonists got into Smash (though the main character, Chrom, had to wait until Super Smash Bros. Ultimate to be added to the roster). After Awakening came Fire Emblem: Three Houses, which pretty quickly eclipsed the former game as the best selling in the series, and solidified the franchise's mainstream appeal to the point of coming away with two nods at The Game Awards 2019 for Best Strategy Game and People's Voice.
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Newbie Boom / int_223c2a48	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild had yet another one for the exact opposite reason from Twilight Princess; namely for changing the formula when backlash towards the series' formulaic nature was coming to a head. The game's open-ended nature, higher difficulty than previous installments, and robust physics systems won over not only many new fans, but older fans disgruntled with its immediate predecessors as well.
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Newbie Boom / int_22843f45	comment	Although The Chainsmokers had a viral hit in 2014 with "#SELFIE", they never really had a sizable fanbase until "Roses" came out in late 2015.
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Newbie Boom / int_2354d12c	comment	The Dragon Quest fandom in the West was, for much of the 1990s and early 2000s, small and fragmented at best. The only game in the series that had any notoriety during that time was Dragon Quest, which was in due part to a promotional campaign by Nintendo Power. Then there was the release of Dragon Quest VIII, the first title in the series to see a release in Europe, introducing a lot of new players to the series and established the modern Dragon Quest community in the West. Years later, the series would see another explosion in the Western fandom with Dragon Quest XI, and not long after, an even bigger one following the reveal of the Dragon Quest Hero in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. This was helped along by Square Enix's other flagship series, Final Fantasy, growing increasingly experimental and abandoning most of its Eastern RPG tropes throughout its later entries; hardline JRPG fans found Dragon Quest, with its more traditional gameplay and world design philosophy, a welcome substitute.
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Newbie Boom / int_2b727723	comment	This happened to Reddit when flocks of diggers who were angry with the release of Digg v4 fled, making Digg a no-man's-land. The Newbie Boom also happens all the time on various subreddits, when a compelling topic makes the main Reddit page, drawing new subscribers in large numbers to the subreddit.
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Newbie Boom / int_2bbcacd9	comment	Looney Tunes: While the Looney Tunes has already been engrained in pop culture since the 1940s, The '90s saw a new generation of children discover the series and the general public's interest in it restored thanks to a confluence of factors: the success of Tiny Toon Adventures in 1990 and Animaniacs in 1993, the classic cartoons being rerun on Cartoon Network starting in 1992, and Mel Blanc's passing in 1989 leading to a number of retrospectives of his career. As a result, Warner Bros. Animation begun making newer animated Looney Tunes projects for television throughout the mid-'90s and early '00s, most notably The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries, Baby Looney Tunes, and Duck Dodgers, as well as the live-action/animation mix Space Jam in 1996. The release of Space Jam: A New Legacy led to another boom in the fandom for Looney Tunes.
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Newbie Boom / int_2d644371	comment	While the Tales Series had a small fanbase in the West for many years thanks to the PlayStation games and distribution of the fan-translated Tales of Phantasia, it wasn't until the release of breakout hit Tales of Symphonia that its popularity exploded. Naturally, this created a sometimes-bitter divide between fans the old-school Tales games (Phantasia, Destiny, Eternia) and the new-school games (Symphonia, Legendia, Abyss, Vesperia).
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Newbie Boom / int_2e28d3d5	comment	Subsequent generations have been turned on to the Fabs by the release of the greatest hits compilation 1, the release of the The Beatles Anthology book/show/albums, the film Across the Universe (2007), and The Beatles Rock Band.
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Newbie Boom / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	Justice League, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Young Justice (2010), and later Arrow created many Black Canary fans.
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Newbie Boom / int_2f203125	comment	For its father series, Shin Megami Tensei, this would happen with the release of Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, especially in the West where the franchise as a whole was unheard of outside the poor localizations of the first Persona and the confusing mess that was skipping Persona 2: Innocent Sin in favor of Eternal Punishment. Nocturne's popularity convinced Atlus that more loyal localizations of their games could be profitable outside of Japan, and the franchise as a whole grew in popularity over time, culminating in Persona 5 above.
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Newbie Boom / int_2f3aa7ef	comment	This happened to the My Little Pony fandom when My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic started to air. Previously, the fandom was mostly a haven for women (not that male fans didn't exist though) who loved the toys and fondly remembered the G1 cartoons. Then when Friendship is Magic was introduced, the previous fandom was swamped by a huge influx of new, mostly male fans (dubbed "bronies"). Similarly, the brony fandom itself experienced a boom around Season 2, when the initial shock of "boys liking girl things" wore off for the most part and people began to check it out for the sake of the show itself. Another boom occurred after the show ended in the 2020s, when the target audience who watched the show when it was new a decade ago grew up and rediscovered it out of nostalgia.
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Newbie Boom / int_2f5513cf	comment	Rare creator example happened with The House That Jack Built and its director Lars von Trier. Trier certainly isn't an obscure director due to his controversy he garners with his films (and himself), but Jack wound up being an introduction for a lot of recent cinephiles due to how much press it was getting between its violent content + premise (a Serial Killer recounting his past murders) and its rarity of screenings for the Director's Cut version, which has all of the gruesome content in tact. To wit, go on Letterboxd and take a shot every time you come across a post saying that this was their first von Trier film.
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Newbie Boom / int_2fc1b0a1	comment	When Tumblr issued a complete ban on all NSFW content in late 2018, a cadre of adult artists being driven off found a new home at Newgrounds. The influx of new users hit such highs, the servers full on crashed trying to keep up. Then in 2021, their servers became absolutely flooded with the number of people coming to the website to play Friday Night Funkin'.
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Newbie Boom / int_2fee008d	comment	Consequently, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann introduced the Super Robot Genre to many fans. Conflict with the old fanbase tends to arise from the new fans not realising that most of the shows content was Older Than They Think.
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Newbie Boom / int_309aea60	comment	Most of The Weeknd's mainstream popularity began in 2015 with Beauty Behind the Madness, although he's been a cult name for a few years beforehand.
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Newbie Boom / int_31e1eca3	comment	PokÃ©mon went through this in Generation IV with PokÃ©mon Diamond and Pearl, which helped introduce lots of new fans into the series. This is mostly attributed to them being the first PokÃ©mon games to be online-capable, allowing you to trade and battle with people from all over the world, thus making the community aspect of the games a bit more accessible. In general, the DS installments (Diamond/Pearl/Platinum, HeartGold/SoulSilver, Black/White, and their sequels) are seen as the "second wave" of the fandom.
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Newbie Boom / int_33acebd8	comment	The Guilty Gear series saw a massive uptick in new players during late 2020 to early 2021, thanks to a few factors. While developers Arc System Works have always been a respected name for fighting game players in the know, they received a massive Colbert Bump when they developed Dragon Ball Fighterz and made their mark on a wider audience who might not be as heavily invested in the overall fighting game genre. With this newfound interest on them, when they released an update to Guilty Gear XX Accent Core +R giving the game rollback netcodenote A version of peer-to-peer networking that greatly reduces the effects of lagspikes on gameplay, which is vital in genres that rely on quick decision making like fighting games as well as their next new entry in the series, Guilty Gear STRIVE—which revamped the series to be more appealing to a casual audience and includes the aforementioned rollback netcode—it paid dividends. Accent Core +R had its playerbase on Steam boosted from double digits to quintuple digits practically overnight, and STRIVE sold 500,000 copies within its first month, outselling the previous entry in the series in its whole lifespan almost three times over.It also probably helped that STRIVE was the first major fighting game released since the beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic—the subpar online of many fighting games at the time meant the genre was greatly hurt by said pandemic killing offline events and forcing many tournaments to go online only. STRIVE releasing with superior netplay to many of its contemporaries led to many players of other fighting games who normally hadn't played a Guilty Gear game before to give it a shot, both at a casual level and at a competitive level. The series also saw another massive boom mid 2022. This time predominantly from the LGBTQ+ community, with the inclusion of series veteran Bridget, who was changed from being a boy who was simply dressed in feminine clothing to a full on transgender woman.
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Newbie Boom / int_35e05f2a	comment	RWBY received a large amount of fans after Volume 3 ended, be it because of the sudden dark tone of the series or because they saw shipping material between Blake and Yang.
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Newbie Boom / int_36395288	comment	Kirby: While it didn't exactly turn it into a Cash-Cow Franchise, quite a few Kirby fans will admit that the anime is what introduced them to the series. Even after its Western run ended in 2006, the show still maintains a noticeable following to this day. Enough to warrant several of its episodes being included with Kirby's Dream Collection: Special Edition in 2012. While it was released late into the lifespan of its console, Kirby's Return to Dream Land was responsible for another influx of Kirby fans in The New '10s. Thanks to it building on the multi-move ability concept that was first done in Kirby Super Star and having the popular King Dedede and Meta Knight as playable characters, the game proved popular enough that its framework would later be used by two well-received 3DS followups (Kirby: Triple Deluxe and Kirby: Planet Robobot). Kirby and the Forgotten Land caused another influx of new fans. Due to being the first mainline 3D Kirby game it recieved much more attention than any Kirby game before it resulting in a lot of curious people, including several YouTubers to try out Kirby for the first time.
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Newbie Boom / int_367f632a	comment	The release of Dawn of War, which was well-received by both game critics and the 40K fanbase, also gave the tabletop scene an injection of popularity.
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Newbie Boom / int_38fa34eb	comment	Wonder Woman is in no way an obscure character but she's always been in the shadow of characters like Batman, Superman, and sometimes even Green Lantern. She's always the main female amongst mainstream comic book characters, especially DC. In The '70s she was quite popular, even having a very popular show, but for over a decade afterwards she wasn't really doing anything for people outside the comic book fandom. The DCAU in general, especially Justice League, really made people care about Diana again and created a lot of fans for her. Wonder Woman (2017) really helped her as well.
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Newbie Boom / int_3a35fcc8	comment	While it was released late into the lifespan of its console, Kirby's Return to Dream Land was responsible for another influx of Kirby fans in The New '10s. Thanks to it building on the multi-move ability concept that was first done in Kirby Super Star and having the popular King Dedede and Meta Knight as playable characters, the game proved popular enough that its framework would later be used by two well-received 3DS followups (Kirby: Triple Deluxe and Kirby: Planet Robobot).
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Newbie Boom / int_3a4f4fdd	comment	In 2023, the Muppet fandom grew after the release of The Muppets Mayhem on Disney+.
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Newbie Boom / int_3aeb1c75	comment	Later on, "What's with all these teenagers wearing orange gis?", "Why is everyone holding red and white balls?", "What are these furries doing at our anime convention?", "Why does everyone have a deck of cards with them?", "Why is everybody bringing in their pet hamsters?", "Why are some of the guys wearing red robes and holding oversized swords?", "Why are there a bunch of guys in metal armor?", "What's with the people dressed as pirates?", "Why are all the girls wearing cat ear headbands?", "What's with the girls dressed in Japanese schoolgirl uniforms?", "Why are they wearing metallic headbands?", "Why are those girls dressed in frilly outfits and talking about selling their soul for a wish?", "Why are people bringing in black notebooks?", "Why are the girls wearing Japanese schoolgirl outfits again?", "Why are some of the girls dressed in schoolgirl outfits yet again and talking about having reality-warping powers and supernatural stuff?", "Why are all these people wearing blue blazers?", "Why are there so many bald guys with capes?", "Why are all these people wearing bamboo as gags?", "Why are all those girls dressed in skimpy outfits and wielding giant scissor blades?", "Why are those guys wearing uniforms and saluting their hearts?", "Why are those guys dressed so flamboyantly and making references to classic rock songs?" (You get the point.)
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Newbie Boom / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter fans that read The Philosopher's/Sorceror's Stone before the release of Chamber of Secrets are hard to find. The real Newbie Boom occurred between the release of Chamber of Secrets and Prisoner of Azkaban and then another between that and Goblet of Fire. By Order of the Phoenix (by that point, the first two movies were out) most people were on board.
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Newbie Boom / int_3b73f906	comment	The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh renewed interest in the Winnie the Pooh franchise and lead to it becoming one of Disney's biggest cash cows of the 90's. In fact, said show was so successful that ABC ran it in reruns until 2002.
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Newbie Boom / int_3c9b76e2	comment	By far the most notable example is Puyo Puyo Tetris, benefiting from the perfect storm of internet buzz, the critically-panned Tetris Ultimate, and a young Nintendo Switch. It was a breakout hit, creating countless new Puyo fans while kickstarting Fan Translation efforts for the other Puyo Puyo games as well as for the more obscure Madou Monogatari series from which they spun off.
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Newbie Boom / int_3ce03501	comment	Time Squad was a 2001 Cartoon Network show about time police that had a decent fan following and was nominated for five Annie Awards. In the summer of 2012, the Tumblr tag for the show exploded, with dozens of fans coming out of the woodwork and a sizable amount of fanart and fanfiction resulting.
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Newbie Boom / int_3cf15492	comment	MechWarrior Online is doing this for the BattleTech/MechWarrior fandoms, especially in the Classic BattleTech era, which is when MWO takes place. What used to be a relatively small, otherwise generally unified community has, ironically enough, blossomed into a fractious, contentious collection of groups all backing one faction or ideal against others.
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Newbie Boom / int_3d513f8	comment	Jimquisition had a decent following on The Escapist and after Jim Sterling ran the show independently. Jim's popularity exploded after several media outlets reported that they were being sued by Digital Homicide for over $10 million due to them criticizing their games harshly. Many people who had no idea who Jim Sterling was or what they do got to know about it after hearing about the lawsuit and they also gained a lot new supporters as a result.
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Newbie Boom / int_3f3abe9	comment	The Rick and Morty fandom grew massively in the time between the end of Season 2 and the start of Season 3. It exploded after an April Fools' Day prank by Adult Swim where the first Season 3 episode played all evening introduced viewers of Toonami to the show as well. For the fans who loved the show before the "Szechuan Sauce" and "Pickle Rick" memes bled into real life, this was not a good thing.
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Newbie Boom / int_411acd6e	comment	The Wonderful 101 was an overlooked action game from Nintendo & PlatinumGames that suffered from a myriad of circumstances when it released (no marketing, same week as Grand Theft Auto V, reviewers that didn't understand it or thought it was too hard, and it was on the Wii U), resulting in the game underperforming. It did build a solid cult fanbase. 7 years after its release, Nintendo let Platinum self-publish the title not just on Switch but also on PC and PS4 as a sign of their good relationship, which allowed all sorts of people who initially didn't bother with the game to check it out. According to director Hideki Kamiya, it seems to be doing a lot better.
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Newbie Boom / int_426a7572	comment	The fandom for Animaniacs had been pretty active for the majority of the 2010s, largely beginning with reruns of the show airing on The Hub from 2012 to 2014, but it would eventually reach its peak in November 2020, the month the reboot was released in.
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Newbie Boom / int_42ffb88e	comment	The community of the SCP Foundation has learned to dread updates to SCP â€“ Containment Breach or the beginning of a new Let's Play on a popular channel; it invariably brings a new crop of enthusiastic aspiring writers posting "yet another thing what killz you" with mangled formatting and "creative spelling" after failing to read any of the site's rules or guides, bewildered by the concept of an online writing community with high standards and zero tolerance for crappypasta. According to site historians, the first such bump occured when the Foundation received a page on This Very Wiki. It eventually reached the point that the first entry, SCP-173, had to have its famous image removed due to the franchise's popularity resulting in the image's creator having his art being exploited by third parties for profit. In fact, multiple of these eventually led to an Old Guard Versus New Blood schism within the community, as more and more newcomers who looked down on the site's roots in 4chan began gaining positions of authority. This resulted in classic entries like "Teenage Succubus" being rewritten by Moral Guardians and a perceived downgrade in overall writing quality, with the last straw to the old guard being the site's logo changed to a pride flag during LGBT History Month. Rather than it being due to homophobia, it was felt to be tone-deaf and immersion-breaking to have an organization with blatant disregard for human rights that's deliberately intended to invoke a sense of Values Dissonance caring about societal issues. As a result, the Spiritual Successor RPC Authority was created with longtime entries like "Hateful Star" migrating there.
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Newbie Boom / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural got an odd amount of this after Castiel was introduced in Season 4, and some people heard so much about him that they decided to check out the show and got hooked. This being Supernatural, there was wank from the fans who'd started watching earlier. Castiel also inspired another, much later resurgence of interest in the show with his Dying Declaration of Love to Dean in the third-to-last episode of the final season, which caused such a rapid and huge fandom reaction that "Destiel" was trending at #1 on Twitter in the middle of the 2020 U.S. presidential elections and caused both curious bystanders who'd never seen the show and former fans who had stopped watching the show long ago to check out the show and its fandom to see what all the hubbub was about.
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Newbie Boom / int_43f0c559	comment	Anarchy Reigns had a minor bump on the Xbox 360 side when there was a SEGA sale on the Xbox Live Market. The community had been practically dead for a while, but after the sale many more newbies joined, and full 16-player battle royales were held for the first time in months.
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Newbie Boom / int_44fe781e	comment	Neon Genesis Evangelion after every major re-release. The English dub VHS tapes were released from 1996-1997, and bootlegs were available since it began in 1995. Popularity tapered off a bit in the early 2000's. The first big Newbie Boom was centered on the DVD releases, of the as-yet unreleased finale movie The End of Evangelion in 2002, and then in 2004 the release of the box set of the Director's Cut episodes. Just as the first Newbie Boom from 2002-2004 was wearing off, the series was aired on [adult swim] from 2005 to 2007, sparking another larger boom because it was airing on basic cable TV. Then another, huge boom came after the Rebuild of Evangelion films started coming out, starting in late 2007 in Japan. Delayed somewhat due to bidding wars over the license, the real boom hit when the English region DVD was released in late 2009. Another boom happened when the series dropped on Netflix in 2019.
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Newbie Boom / int_45501b8c	comment	Metroid went through a minor boom when Super Metroid went on sale for $0.30 on the Wii U Virtual Console. It became one of the best-selling downloadable games on the console, and newbies being a huge portion of the buyers is evidenced by the infamous plethora of Miiverse posts by people unable to figure out how to use the Morph Ball.
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Newbie Boom / int_45e60690	comment	Ed Sheeran was very popular in his native UK since 2011 and had some minor success in the US with his first album +, but only ascended superstardom in the states upon the release of x in 2014.
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Newbie Boom / int_463cfe3a	comment	There are die-hard Star Fox fans who still don't realize Star Fox 64 wasn't the first game in the series. This isn't helped by its Tough Act to Follow status within the fandom, as subsequent entries have Nintendo heavily experiment with the property by attaching other genres and mechanics on top of the core Rail Shooter gameplay (to mixed results).
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Newbie Boom / int_46518682	comment	While Sesame Street has always been popular, there have been three instances where the show's long-lasting popularity skyrocketed: one in the late 90s thanks to the popularity of the Tickle Me Elmo toys (which in turn led to Elmo being promoted to even more of a major character), once in the late 2000s when Abby Cadabby and the programming block format were introduced, and another in 2019 due to the 50th anniversary of the series, its boatload of promotional efforts, and the move to HBO Max.
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Newbie Boom / int_493666a1	comment	King Kong vs. Godzilla became the highest-grossing Godzilla movie for decades thanks to the inclusion of the then more famous King Kong as his opponent. The success of the film is also what convinced Toho to turn Godzilla into a franchise of almost yearly films.
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Newbie Boom / int_493c5bc	comment	Pre-Heartcatch: a small, happy fandom struggling to get subs and shake off the "yuri fanboy" label. Post-Heartcatch: WHERE DID ALL THESE PEOPLE COME FROM. The reason for the boom is twofold: Heartcatch was the second series of a new era of Precure seasons after Fresh Pretty Cure! changed many of the Classic/Pre-Fresh era's conventions, and Heartcatch also attracted a bigger, more prolific fansub group, bringing the English-speaking fandom same-week or even same-day fansubs for the first time. It also helps that Heartcatch premiered around the same time that the original series was airing a dub in Canada and the UK, which may have led some curious viewers to learn about the other installments in the franchise.
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Newbie Boom / int_49a88442	comment	Final Fantasy XIV launched very poorly, but with the A Realm Reborn reboot, good publicity brought in a surge of new players. Further, disaffected World of Warcraft players (so-called "WoW refugees") sometimes turn to XIV to see what the fuss is about. This came to a head in summer 2021: back-to-back controversial expansions, the bungled Warcraft III: Reforged release, the Blitzchung controversy, severe content drought and a high profile lawsuit against Blizzard's extremely toxic workplace culture provoked intense anti-Blizzard sentiment, leading several high-profile World of Warcraft streamers to begin playing Final Fantasy XIV instead. This, plus the generous free trial, created XIV's biggest Newbie Boom yet. For context, during an expected lull in subscribers over a month after the final major patch of Shadowbringers, XIV digital copies went temporarily "out of stock"; the store couldn't keep up with the spike in demand for pre-generated codes and paused sales to create more. This happened again with the Endwalker expansion's release, which brought in so many new and returning players that they had to temporarily stop selling the game, digitally or otherwise.
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Newbie Boom / int_49ad83ee	comment	World of Warcraft vs. the original RTS series. While the original wasn't exactly obscure among gamers, it was nowhere near the WOW phenomenon - a recurring joke among the WOW fandom is to assume references to Warcraft III mean a third WOW and joke that they haven't even heard of a second WOW. Blizzard themselves made a joke about this for 2013's April Fools' Day, claiming that they were making a prequel to World of Warcraft that was TBA for 2014, followed by screenshots of Warcraft III.
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Newbie Boom / int_4a510504	comment	Guns N' Roses experienced a boom in the mid-2000s. It started with the supergroup Velvet Revolver putting Slash, Duff, and Matt back in the spotlight, the release of the Greatest Hits album (which has spent 500 weeks on the Billboard 200), and the prominent use of "Welcome to the Jungle" in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (which also featured Axl Rose as a radio DJ), all of which combined to make GNR's music and musicians more accessible to new listeners than they had been in years. A few years later, Slash starred in Guitar Hero III, which made him the de facto rock guitar god in the eyes of a generation, especially among people who do not listen to a lot of rock music and are not familiar with very many guitarists. They experienced another boom in the 2010s with the Not in This Lifetime... Tour, wherein half the classic lineup returned.
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Newbie Boom / int_4c99197e	comment	The Muppet Show saw a huge Newbie Boom in early 2021 when all but two episodes arrived on Disney+.note One of the missing episodes (Brooke Shields) is due to music rights, the other for unbelievably horrible things the guest star (Chris Langham) did in his personal life decades later.
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Newbie Boom / int_4ce31d5f	comment	Trouble in Terrorist Town had this from the Colbert Bump of Seananners and others playing the game. Since most of the players introduced in the game in this fashion play it badly (such as killing people as an innocent for no reason), this is not a good thing for the game's community.
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Newbie Boom / int_4ce969a9	comment	Marathon is affected every time a Halo game or a Bungie game is released. It still receives popularity from Halo players because Halo was a spiritual successor to Marathon.
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Newbie Boom / int_4e7cac32	comment	Supergirl (2015) introduced Kara Zor-El to many people who previously knew nothing about her but quickly became a new generation of fans.
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Newbie Boom / int_4f2ad444	comment	Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag brought in a lot of new people, since the game allowed one to play as a pirate. This created a bit of a gap between those who liked the game and wished the future games to be similar to it, and those who think that someone who hates the series and only likes the In Name Only game that focuses less on ''Assassins'' and more on pirates, is technically not an Assassin's Creed fan. When sailing was removed from the series, some felt that it was a good thing, since the devs could now focus on creating large historical cities like in the original games instead of an empty sea with small locations scattered around, and those who felt sailing was too good to be removed.
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Newbie Boom / int_4f89d268	comment	PokÃ©mon GO caused a huge boom akin to the first wave of PokÃ©mania in the '90s. Complete with news coverage from all over the world, both good and bad, and even making its way to sources that don't even touch video games or anything "geeky". It released the same year as PokÃ©mon's 20th Anniversary, thus introducing a number of PokÃ©mon GO players to later generations, and greatly benefited to the success of PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon a few months later.
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Newbie Boom / int_507dfb6a	comment	The EarthBound fandom got a sudden surge of new members when the game finally got rereleased on the Wii U. At one point it was the most downloaded Virtual Console game on the console, which resulted in many newcomers to the series, with some being people who had never heard of the game at that point. This notably caused some friction between those who were in the cult fandom before it gained a wider audience, as not only are the newer fans more willing to point out EarthBound's flaws, they've even started to criticize Mother 3's flaws upon finding out about it, which had been considered a Sacred Cow.
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Newbie Boom / int_50e2e357	comment	Star Trek (2009), for its time, was popular even among non-Trek fans.
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Newbie Boom / int_53b30902	comment	Valkyria Chronicles was a dud in the west back in 2008 until a price drop months after launch, and inevitably the series became another unfortunate example of No Export for You by the time Valkyria Chronicles III came out - However in 2014 a PC port of the game released on Steam almost out of the blue, which quickly made its way up the Top Sellers chart at launch and once again during the 2014 Winter Sale. Because of this success, when Valkyria Chronicles 4 was first announced, it was immediately confirmed for a worldwide release.
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Newbie Boom / int_545545c9	comment	Mickey Mouse Clubhouse was already a massive hit with its target audience. It spent several years as one of Disney Junior's highest rated, and highly profitable series. Overtime though, it was canceled and replaced with new series starring Disney's beloved mascot. Once Disney+ became a must have streaming service for families with children, its popularity increased drastically. Clubhouse now often sits side by side with Marvel Cinematic Universe series and The Simpsons on their trending menu.
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Newbie Boom / int_56cb92c3	comment	After a flurry of early advertising publicity stills for the Guardians of the Galaxy movie were released in 2013 picturing Rocket Raccoon, there was a sudden hubbub about how cool it was that a talking raccoon with a ray gun would be one of the stars of a science fiction story. Those people who'd been fans of the character since his first appearance in 1975 quietly rolled their eyes and continued waiting for the movie.
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Newbie Boom / int_58a0656b	comment	PAYDAY 2 has had two of these in the form of official community events designed to attract new players. The first of these, titled "Crimefest", saw current players convincing people to join the official Steam group, with free content being unlocked when the group reached a certain size. The second, titled "Hype Train", was rather similar, only with the new goal of purchasing enough games and DLC to build up enough 'hype fuel' to reach the final destination. Both events featured free weekends, massive sales for both the game and all DLCs, resulting in a relatively large player boom. The Hype Train in particular saw crossovers with both Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number and SpeedRunners, drawing attention from those fanbases as well.
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Newbie Boom / int_58af2679	comment	Hannibal Lecter didn't become an icon until the film of The Silence of the Lambs came out nearly a decade after Thomas Harris first created the character.
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Newbie Boom / int_5921531b	comment	The series managed this with Persona 4, and took it up another notch nearly a decade later, Persona 5, which quickly became the best-selling title in the series and won many new fans for its unique visual flair and interesting premise of a group of vigilante-thieves using their abilities to essentially brainwash corrupt powerful figures. The boom only got bigger after Joker got included in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Persona 5's Newbie Boom was so large that it not only started a boom for the Eastern RPG genre as a whole, it also drew in a lot of infamy because of it, and the disparaging memes about new fans comparing everything to Persona 5 exists because some people really are like that◊.
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Newbie Boom / int_5aca0f8e	comment	Peppa Pig saw one in the United States in 2012 after Nick Jr. added it to their regular lineup.
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Newbie Boom / int_5ae0bec6	comment	The entire field of women's professional wrestling (most noticeably in America, especially with regards to WWE) went from being hugely important in The '80s, to virtually gone in The '90s, to perfunctory in Turn of the Millennium and the first half of The New '10s, to becoming huge and important again by the second half thanks to the WWE Women's Evolution. To summarize the history, wrestling as a whole had a golden age in the 80s of colorful personalities and camp, where women's wrestling was pushed as just as a big a deal as men's wrestling, but this faded out by the decade's end following a plateau of hype and new talent. Along with a gradual Tone Shift catering specifically to adult male audiences with the aggressive and macho Attitude Era and the fanservice-y shlock of the WWE Diva Search, this reduced a majority of their women's divisions to consist primarily of Faux Action Girls prioritizing sex appeal and social climbing over actual wrestling acumen, whose matches could be completely ignored. However, following the widely acclaimed NXT TakeOver PPV events starting from 2014, audiences were introduced to new female wrestlers who took wrestling very seriously — names including Paige, Charlotte Flair, Sasha Banks, Bayley, and Becky Lynch — and were backed by a show which also took them very seriously. Audiences picked up on this massive quality boom, thus opening the floodgates for even more new and exciting female talent (Alexa Bliss, Asuka, Bianca Belair, Ronda Rousey, just to name a few), and treating their various stories and championship runs as big deals, with WrestleMania 35's main event by a title match between Lynch, Rousey, and Flair, the first-ever women's main event match in the show's history. In The New '20s, women's wrestling remains a big deal, and modern, up-to-date wrestling fans who don't give it any attention compared to men's wrestling are themselves becoming more of a minority.
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Newbie Boom / int_5ce3fc86	comment	Most mangas get this once they are turned into anime; Soul Eater, for instance. After said anime are dubbed, this happens again, as in the Haruhi Suzumiya example above.
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Newbie Boom / int_5d96b889	comment	And in the Mario Kart series, Mario Kart DS, with its easy-to-use online play, allowed the franchise to explode into the top seller it is now. Previously, Mario Kart fandoms were mostly restricted to competing with each other over long distances via Time Trials (setting the best 1- and 3-lap records) and, with Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, LAN events. This influx of newcomers from Mario Kart DS and onward got so intense that these veteran communities dissolved and eventually disappeared. Some DID cry "It's Popular, Now It Sucks!," but for the most part, the new fans and old fans found common ground in online racing. Mario Kart Wii took this up a notch, by nature of being on a very popular and accessible console, and likewise again with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on the Switch.
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Newbie Boom / int_5db577ba	comment	At some of the larger anime conventions (Most notably Otakon) the attendees don't dress exclusively as anime characters anymore and the Con is flavored by whatever's "hot" at the time regardless of its nation of origin. At the 2008 convention (right after The Dark Knight was released) "Why is everyone The Joker at an anime convention?"
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Newbie Boom / int_5e91c7d	comment	Resident Evil 4 hit the series with an onslaught of new gamers impressed by the completely retooled game play, and lost a portion of old fans because They Changed It, Now It Sucks!. Many of the new fans didn't even realize the Opening Narration was actually one of the games, and instead just thought it was an Expo Dump.
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Newbie Boom / int_5ebd9db6	comment	Donkey Hodie caused a boom in the popularity of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, thanks to it using several mythology gags referencing the show and using several of the show's songs. This, along with that show's ratings success, lead to Mister Rogers' Neighborhood being added to the PBS Kids channel after last being aired during Family Night in 2018.
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Newbie Boom / int_5f71a70b	comment	Xenoblade Chronicles: The first game got newcomers invested partially because of protagonist Shulk's inclusion in the fourth installment of the ever-popular Super Smash Bros. series (and especially the "I'm really feeling it" meme), partially because of Chuggaaconroy playing it, and partially because it got a much-needed re-release on the New Nintendo 3DS. Most fans welcomed them with open arms, though some carry a joking "liking Xenoblade before it was cool" attitude. The release of the Definitive Edition on Nintendo Switch brought with it another boom. Xenoblade Chronicles 2 quickly became not only the most financially successful entry in the Xenoblade series, but the entire Xeno metaseries as a whole. Newcomers starting with this game would not only go on to seek out both the first and Xenoblade Chronicles X (dusting off their Wii U's in the process), but the inclusion of KOS-MOS and T-ELOS as Rare Blades had a fair number go back even further to experience the Xenosaga games as well. Xenoblade Chronicles 2 would later see a boom of its own with the inclusion of Pyra and Mythra as a DLC fighter for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
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Newbie Boom / int_610a694a	comment	Somewhere around the mid 2000s to the Diamond and Pearl days, PokÃ©mon Adventures went from being a rather obscure adaptation of PokÃ©mon to being well-known amongst fans. It's pretty much the second adaptation besides the anime, never mind that there are many other manga out there (one is even more long-running). And thanks to Europe starting to release the manga in the 2010s, sales exploded, making it cross 10 million sales by the 2010s.
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Newbie Boom / int_62bf541	comment	Mario first became a household name with Super Mario Bros., making what had been a series of moderately popular arcade and NES games into a worldwide sensation. While the original Donkey Kong and Mario Bros. still enjoyed a healthy level of notoriety, Donkey Kong Jr. is somewhat more obscure, while Donkey Kong 3 and Wrecking Crew are practically unknown even among Nintendo fans.
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Newbie Boom / int_62ceda02	comment	For better or for worse, Sonichu quickly became notorious once errant users of Something Awful and 4chan began discussing its creator Chris Chandler, with an Encyclopedia Dramatica article about Chandler being written shortly afterwards. Needless to say, the webcomic as well as Chandler's life would never be the same afterwards.
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Newbie Boom / int_63409895	comment	While Sofia the First started with plenty of fans, it wasn't until "The Curse Of Princess Ivy", a significantly darker episode, that the show received a huge boost in fans.
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Newbie Boom / int_671d6c5c	comment	Another boom happened during HuGtto! Pretty Cure due to it being the series' 15th anniversary and due to many news sites covering episode 19's take on gender roles with the character Henri and his Pretty Cure transformation months later.
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Newbie Boom / int_6744d821	comment	The Owl House was already popular, but "Enchanting Grom Fright" caused the fandom to explode in size due to its LGBT themes.
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Newbie Boom / int_68d7b51d	comment	4chan: Some users think this happened after the Scientology protests, the general mindset being It's Popular, Now It Sucks!. This wasn't the first time this had happened to 4chan; in 2006, 4chan got e-famous for spam raids of Habbo Hotel, Ebaumsworld and other sites which led to a massive influx of new users. Guess what the response of the users who had been there since 2003-2005 was?note To give yourself an idea: post-2005 users are called "THE CANCER THAT IS KILLING /b/" (in all caps). Encyclopedia Dramatica may be to blame here. Every summer, /b/ sees a bit of extra traffic due to school being out. This is referred to by the /b/tards as "Newfag Summer". Naturally, "summerfags" are hardly welcomed. In 2012 and 2013, /v/ was flooded with Trolls and newbies, leading to a negative opinion on any game being followed by bait images and people calling you a "shitposter". In 2016 and following years, /pol/ got popular attention for its association with the alt-right and in turn Donald Trump. This got a lot of people who otherwise would have no interest in 4chan to use it thanks to the attention it got during the election. "Election tourist" is a common term for such people — guess how 4chan users felt about election tourists.
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Newbie Boom / int_6c1234ed	comment	The Dwarf Fortress community had to batten down the hatches in anticipation of one of these when its creators were interviewed by the New York Times. Another boom occurred when Penny Arcade discussed it in The Rant. Third boom happened when the game got officially released on Steam with much more friendly user interface.
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Newbie Boom / int_6c1d09b3	comment	Fallout 3 did this for Fallout's faithful fanbase.
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Newbie Boom / int_6c6852c4	comment	The release of Yakuza 0 has brought new fans to the series because the game is a prequel that people won't be spoiled or confused by. In response to the demand, Sega reprinted all the games (including the PS2 titles) as online-only purchase. The Yakuza series went from being almost dead in the west to being one of Sega's biggest international franchise, and the series started receiving English dubs again.
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Newbie Boom / int_6ed09d93	comment	Many new viewers were introduced to the controversial Big Mouth in the second season due to an extensive marketing campaign.
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Newbie Boom / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender was already a popular Nicktoon among older audiences, but when the show was available to stream on Netflix in the United States in 2020, it received a large amount of new fans, to the point of setting a record for being on Netflix's Top 10 list the longest, at 60 days (number 2, Ozark, was on the list for 57 days). The fact it came around during the COVID-19 pandemic where people are stuck at home also helped. The sequel series also released on Netflix a few months later with a similar boom.
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Newbie Boom / int_73b74949	comment	Two songs used in Borderlands became hugely popular after people first heard them in the game. Cage The Elephant's Ain't No Rest for the Wicked and DJ Champion's No Heaven were searched heavily on YouTube after Borderlands was released and there were lots of posted comments stating they searched for the songs because they heard it in the game.
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Newbie Boom / int_73e1e827	comment	Sanjay and Craig got this after the episode themed around Double Dare aired, which happened around the time the show got good word of mouth for actually being good.
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Newbie Boom / int_7414f486	comment	Super Smash Bros. 64 was very successful in sales, but it wasn't until the Melee incarnation that the series really got popular. Many people that started with Super Smash Bros. Melee were surprised to see there was a game before it. Melee is also said to be the gateway series that introduced many new players to the greater Fighting Game Community.
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Newbie Boom / int_74507e2c	comment	After several failed revival attempts, the Voltron franchise got a huge boost in fans in 2016, following the debut of the Continuity Reboot Voltron: Legendary Defender.
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Newbie Boom / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: This happened to The Legend of Zelda after The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was released. It got so bad that a sizable portion of the younger fans kept referring to The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask as "Zelda 2," apparently not realizing that there were four games in the series before OoT.note Unless, of course, you count the the CDi releases, anyway... The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess triggered another one thanks to being a simultaneous early title for the Wii and swan song for the GameCube, and also for returning the series to an aesthetic and structure similar to that of the aforementioned Ocarina of Time when the franchise was still reeling from backlash towards Majora's Mask and The Wind Waker's attempts to move away from aspects of the formula. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild had yet another one for the exact opposite reason from Twilight Princess; namely for changing the formula when backlash towards the series' formulaic nature was coming to a head. The game's open-ended nature, higher difficulty than previous installments, and robust physics systems won over not only many new fans, but older fans disgruntled with its immediate predecessors as well.
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Newbie Boom / int_755fadab	comment	The Haruhi Suzumiya light novel fandom got a doubling or tripling in size as soon as the anime came out. It would only increase after the dub of the series was announced.
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Newbie Boom / int_77aa72de	comment	Several games that appeared in I Wanna Be the Guy had swarms of fans flocking to said games after discovering them. Games include Punch-Out!!, Mega Man, Castlevania, Ghouls n' Ghosts, etc.
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Newbie Boom / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe received a huge influx of fans at the end of its first season, thanks to a marathon of episodes that built-up to the season finale. The creators noted later on that while the entire crew had a feeling that the episode ("Jailbreak") and its Signature Song "Stronger Than You" would be a watershed moment for the series, they didn't expect such an increase in popularity.
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Newbie Boom / int_7b2ca7a2	comment	Bayonetta gained a lot of its current fans when the second game was announced as a Wii U exclusive. People began talking about her a lot either due to her being a rare M-rated game on the console or the backlash a lot of her fans created because the sequel wasn't multi-platform. The series then got another boost when the eponymous character was announced as the final downloadable character in Super Smash Bros For Nintendo 3 DS And WIIU.
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Newbie Boom / int_7c48915b	comment	Gunnerkrigg Court experienced a surge in readership after Neil Gaiman praised it on his blog.
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Newbie Boom / int_7cf5a07	comment	CW's The Flash (2014) introduced a whole new generation of fans to The Flash. Justice League did this years earlier however for Wally West instead of Barry Allen.
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Newbie Boom / int_7e793c21	comment	With the announcement of the Watchmen film, the fan community swelled to massive size as people swarmed to read the original graphic novel which swelled the fanbase. That was until some realized what type of story Alan Moore was telling. Theater attendance even took a hit when some people found out the thing that looks like a cool superhero story was mostly deconstructing the medium.
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Newbie Boom / int_7fc78282	comment	After The Lord of the Rings movies premiered, the Middle-Earth fandom swelled up. This is actually the second time this happened; the books didnâ€™t get popular until the counterculture movement of The '60s. The books were first published in 1954 and were rather obscure for their first decade of existence. And now, with a new TV show being out, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion got a new flux of young readers interested in the books.
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Newbie Boom / int_80db7c52	comment	Aggretsuko experienced one due to its Netflix remake.
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Newbie Boom / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: Infamously, a large number of original series fans didn't watch it when it originally aired in the late 1960s. However, Paramount aired reruns of the series in syndication throughout the '70s, which is how a far larger number of people were exposed to it. This wasn't as much of a datable "boom" so much as steady growth across a decade. The success of the '80s-era Star Trek movies exponentially increased the number of Trek fans and led not to a remake, but to a sequel series, Star Trek: The Next Generation. It, in turn, exponentially increased the Trek fanbase even further. Star Trek (2009), for its time, was popular even among non-Trek fans. It happened again in the 2010s when the existing shows at the time were added to Netflix. Voyager in particular gained a whole new influx of fans, becoming the most-streamed series of the franchise.
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Newbie Boom / int_8258e260	comment	Mario: Mario first became a household name with Super Mario Bros., making what had been a series of moderately popular arcade and NES games into a worldwide sensation. While the original Donkey Kong and Mario Bros. still enjoyed a healthy level of notoriety, Donkey Kong Jr. is somewhat more obscure, while Donkey Kong 3 and Wrecking Crew are practically unknown even among Nintendo fans. And in the Mario Kart series, Mario Kart DS, with its easy-to-use online play, allowed the franchise to explode into the top seller it is now. Previously, Mario Kart fandoms were mostly restricted to competing with each other over long distances via Time Trials (setting the best 1- and 3-lap records) and, with Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, LAN events. This influx of newcomers from Mario Kart DS and onward got so intense that these veteran communities dissolved and eventually disappeared. Some DID cry "It's Popular, Now It Sucks!," but for the most part, the new fans and old fans found common ground in online racing. Mario Kart Wii took this up a notch, by nature of being on a very popular and accessible console, and likewise again with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on the Switch.
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Newbie Boom / int_84e1f890	comment	Gojira was a fairly well-received film in its home country of Japan, but it was the Americanized edit, Godzilla: King of the Monsters!, that helped turn Godzilla into a household name across the world.
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Newbie Boom / int_85fe792f	comment	Halseyâ€™s popularity skyrocketed after she appeared on The Chainsmokersâ€™ #1 hit â€œCloserâ€�.
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Newbie Boom / int_864a7357	comment	The second occurred with the release of Total War: Warhammer, which introduced the franchise to the legions of Warhammer fans, who now got a fully realised map of the Old World to play in and were champing at the bit to do so. The Warhammer titles have each become the most-played Total War game to date upon release.
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Newbie Boom / int_890f6a72	comment	The release of Space Jam: A New Legacy led to another boom in the fandom for Looney Tunes.
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Newbie Boom / int_8ad918d7	comment	Similar to The Muppet Show, Bear in the Big Blue House saw a huge Newbie Boom from October to November of 2022 when Disney+ made the entire series (barring a handful of missing episodes) available for streaming. Even Disney Junior's official accounts took notice and started posting about the series again, such as uploading full episides onto YouTube and including the characters in their social media posts alongside newer shows like Bluey and SuperKitties.
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Newbie Boom / int_8d62323c	comment	Danganronpa has had a few instances of this in terms of franchise growth. The intitial western fandom came to be due to a very popular Something Awful Lets Play of a fan tanslation, causing the fandom to get its start. The first true boom of new fans began with the original airing of the Danganronpa anime adaptation, which alongside the popularity of the original game's fan translation, was enough to get the Vita ports of both Dangan Ronpa Trigger Happy Havoc and Dangan Ronpa 2 Goodbye Despair, to get official localizations outside of Japan. Then, the announcement of another anime that would conclude the original plot points made throughout the first two games, as well as a brand new game divorced from the events of the first two brought in even more new fans, alongside the official PC and PS4 release of the first 2 games and the spinoff action game Dangan Ronpa Another Episode Ultra Despair Girls. Finally the announcement of the Switch port collection of Danganronpa Decadence has brought new interest in the series, especially with the Nintendo Switch's popularity.
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Newbie Boom / int_8d7f29ec	comment	Any song covered on Glee, with the exception of the ones it ripped from the Top 100.
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Newbie Boom / int_8e93a13d	comment	Before 2000, Phantasy Star was fairly popular in its home country, but rather niche everywhere else. When Phantasy Star Online was released, it got a bump in newcomers thanks to being the only MMO on the consoles it appeared on (Dreamcast, GameCube and Xbox). Then the series' first free to play venture, Phantasy Star Online 2 was released, and the popularity spiked dramatically, to the point where it rivals the more well-known Final Fantasy XIV as one of the most popular MMOs in Japan. It even got overseas players playing the game via Fan Translation, long before the game was officially localized 8 years after it was first released.
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Newbie Boom / int_8ec33a86	comment	The first game got newcomers invested partially because of protagonist Shulk's inclusion in the fourth installment of the ever-popular Super Smash Bros. series (and especially the "I'm really feeling it" meme), partially because of Chuggaaconroy playing it, and partially because it got a much-needed re-release on the New Nintendo 3DS. Most fans welcomed them with open arms, though some carry a joking "liking Xenoblade before it was cool" attitude. The release of the Definitive Edition on Nintendo Switch brought with it another boom.
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Newbie Boom / int_8ec33a87	comment	Xenoblade Chronicles 2 quickly became not only the most financially successful entry in the Xenoblade series, but the entire Xeno metaseries as a whole. Newcomers starting with this game would not only go on to seek out both the first and Xenoblade Chronicles X (dusting off their Wii U's in the process), but the inclusion of KOS-MOS and T-ELOS as Rare Blades had a fair number go back even further to experience the Xenosaga games as well. Xenoblade Chronicles 2 would later see a boom of its own with the inclusion of Pyra and Mythra as a DLC fighter for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
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Newbie Boom / int_8ee238c9	comment	Persona: The series managed this with Persona 4, and took it up another notch nearly a decade later, Persona 5, which quickly became the best-selling title in the series and won many new fans for its unique visual flair and interesting premise of a group of vigilante-thieves using their abilities to essentially brainwash corrupt powerful figures. The boom only got bigger after Joker got included in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Persona 5's Newbie Boom was so large that it not only started a boom for the Eastern RPG genre as a whole, it also drew in a lot of infamy because of it, and the disparaging memes about new fans comparing everything to Persona 5 exists because some people really are like that◊. Persona 4 Golden's release on PC did a smaller version of this among the Steam users. For its father series, Shin Megami Tensei, this would happen with the release of Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, especially in the West where the franchise as a whole was unheard of outside the poor localizations of the first Persona and the confusing mess that was skipping Persona 2: Innocent Sin in favor of Eternal Punishment. Nocturne's popularity convinced Atlus that more loyal localizations of their games could be profitable outside of Japan, and the franchise as a whole grew in popularity over time, culminating in Persona 5 above.
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Newbie Boom / int_8f36f969	comment	When show creator Stephen Hillenburg died in 2018, the show, which had been declining in popularity due to The Loud House becoming a hit, and the skyrocketing popularity of streaming services and YouTube, saw a surge in popularity among children. It was also perfectly timed as the kids who originally grew up with the show in the late 90's and early 2000's now had kids of their own to share the show with.
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Newbie Boom / int_8f5a610b	comment	Monster Hunter: World was this for the Monster Hunter series. The series is a smash hit in Japan, but less so overseas due to its high difficulty curve, many unexplained yet vital mechanics, and limited platforms (mostly handhelds), among other factors. World was designed specifically to bring new players into the franchise, mainly through a significant number of quality-of-life improvements and being released on two of the three major consoles and PC. It worked, as World quickly became one of Capcom's top-selling games within just a few months. Its success was a motivator for the long-awaited localization of Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate.
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Newbie Boom / int_90032631	comment	Very few people have heard of the memoir Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison before the TV series adaptation Orange Is the New Black premiered on Netflix.
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Newbie Boom / int_90a5b84f	comment	While Hypnosis Mic had a relatively good start, the rap battle between Fling Posse and Matenrou, the two most popular divisions in the franchise thus far, attracted a lot of fans while it was going on.
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Newbie Boom / int_90e2f673	comment	BattleTech, as of 2021, got a boost of fans from Warhammer 40,000 who wanted to find a new game in protest of GW's Fan-Work Ban from the same year.
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Newbie Boom / int_91582cba	comment	The 2015 IDW Jem and the Holograms (IDW) comics revived peoples interest in a cartoon that ended before many fans were even born.
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Newbie Boom / int_938e19ec	comment	Fraggle Rock experienced a growth in fans after the release of Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock.
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Newbie Boom / int_94ee07a1	comment	The Song of Achilles: The book was released in 2011 to good sales and critical acclaim, however it experienced a massive ressurgence in the new 20s, shooting it back into the New York Times' Best Seller list 10 years after its release. Reasons for this includes it becoming a TikTok reading recommendation darling and the release of the 2020 game Hades, which featured Achilles and Patroclus in a romantic relationship as well and creating a massive case of Friendly Fandoms.
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Newbie Boom / int_94f77848	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury: The first episode made a completely gigantic splash and experienced a heavy influx of newcomers, even outside Japan where Gundam is no powerhouse. The show has garnered social media attention like no previous Gundam series before it.
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Newbie Boom / int_960062b7	comment	My Hero Academia has an interesting history with its popularity. Season 1 of the anime was a modest hit, but it had some pretty stiff competition the year it aired. By the time season 2 aired, it had an unexpected surge in popularity, helped by a few factors: 1. The ending of Naruto: Shippuden and the divisiveness of Boruto. 2. The long anticipated second season of Attack on Titan only getting 12 episodes (after a four year wait, no less), while Hero Academia's second season got 24. Both of those helped fill a void.
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Newbie Boom / int_9888f901	comment	Daria ran from 1997 just into 2002, but didn't get a DVD release until 2010 because of licensing issues. Many of the buyers were people who had been a bit too young for the show when it first aired, adding many teenagers and 20-somethings to the fandom.
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Newbie Boom / int_9a67b688	comment	Case Closed got one in Japan after the monster popularity of the movie Zero The Enforcer, especially among young adult women who fell in love with Tooru Amuro, who ended up becoming a Breakout Character despite first appearing very late in the series' run.
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Newbie Boom / int_9b530c26	comment	For years Archie Comics was seen as the type of clean, safe comic people buy for their family members. It was the most casual of the casual and rarely discussed amongst the comic book fandom as a whole. In the early 2010s, this changed with comics like the genderswap comic, Afterlife with Archie, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Archie vs. Predator, and Archie Comics (2015).
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Newbie Boom / int_9d34190a	comment	Each The Elder Scrolls game has caused one of these starting with Morrowind. In the mid-to-late 90s, the series was another drop in the staggering bucket of Western RPG games available for the PC, sustained by a small but devoted fanbase. Then Morrowind was released on both PC and Xbox. In addition to being a critical hit, this Multi-Platform release allowed it to get into the hands of a wider audience, making it the Breakthrough Hit for Bethesda. After the runaway successes of Oblivion and Skyrim, the series' status as one of the pillars of western role playing games was cemented.
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Newbie Boom / int_9dbcca51	comment	Discussed in the '80s All Over Alternate DVD Commentary for The Dead Zone. The hosts ponder how every few years prolific, eccentric character actors like Christopher Walken and Willem Dafoe get this via younger moviegoers who see their latest work and find them interesting enough to dip into their older stuff, and note that a then-recent (2018) example of the trope in action was Thor: Ragnarok sparking this for Jeff Goldblum.
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Newbie Boom / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: Happened in-universe when Gold Roger was executed and said his treasure would be for the one who found it in the Grand Line. This was know as the start of The Golden Age of Piracy for all the new pirates who embarked in finding it; more senior pirates like Whitebeard, however, saw it as a very negative thing as the seas will be plagued by non romance-driven pirates who ignored the old values shared by pirates prior to the Golden Age. Another one occurred after the Whitebeard War, thanks in part to Whitebeard himself. The main goal of the Marines in this war was to snuff out the Golden Age of Piracy. However, Whitebeard, with his dying breath, proclaimed that One Piece does exist, reigniting the idea once again and starting a new era of piracy, as a final middle finger to the World Government and the Marines for the death of Ace, having essentially made the entire war and all the sacrifices the Marines made absolutely meaningless with those last words. Happened out the universe as well with the Marineford War trending on Twitter, as new viewers wanted to see what the fuss was all about. When the COVID-19 Pandemic took effect, One Piece saw a massive influx of new readers thanks to the lockdown, helped by Viz Media's affordable access to the entire series.
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Newbie Boom / int_9e876c22	comment	The Good Omens fandom got a massive influx of new fans in mid-2019 when the book's TV adaptation came out. According to the AO3 Ship Stats for 2020, the number of Aziraphale/Crowley fics on Archive of Our Own skyrocketed by over twenty thousand between August 2019 and August 2020.
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Newbie Boom / int_9f8607f5	comment	Starset suddenly boomed in popularity circa 2014. Many fans think it was due to radio airplay and fanvids of "My Demons" and "Carnivore".
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Newbie Boom / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: PokÃ©mon went through this in Generation IV with PokÃ©mon Diamond and Pearl, which helped introduce lots of new fans into the series. This is mostly attributed to them being the first PokÃ©mon games to be online-capable, allowing you to trade and battle with people from all over the world, thus making the community aspect of the games a bit more accessible. In general, the DS installments (Diamond/Pearl/Platinum, HeartGold/SoulSilver, Black/White, and their sequels) are seen as the "second wave" of the fandom. The competitive sub-fandom faced a Newbie Boom with PokÃ©mon X and Y, due to Game Freak making the myriad of systems required to enter it (IV-breeding, hidden abilities, and EV training) easier to understand, access, and perform. PokÃ©mon GO caused a huge boom akin to the first wave of PokÃ©mania in the '90s. Complete with news coverage from all over the world, both good and bad, and even making its way to sources that don't even touch video games or anything "geeky". It released the same year as PokÃ©mon's 20th Anniversary, thus introducing a number of PokÃ©mon GO players to later generations, and greatly benefited to the success of PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon a few months later.
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Newbie Boom / int_9fcc8c53	comment	Punch-Out!! is a popular NES title, however it's mostly seen as just that. There were games before it and afterwards, but they never clicked with fans the same way the NES iteration did. The 2009 reboot brought in a lot of new fans thanks to modernizing the game's look while primarily staying true to the NES game, as did Mac being a newcomer in the fourth Super Smash Bros. game.
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Newbie Boom / int_9ff4a8d9	comment	Godzilla: Gojira was a fairly well-received film in its home country of Japan, but it was the Americanized edit, Godzilla: King of the Monsters!, that helped turn Godzilla into a household name across the world. King Kong vs. Godzilla became the highest-grossing Godzilla movie for decades thanks to the inclusion of the then more famous King Kong as his opponent. The success of the film is also what convinced Toho to turn Godzilla into a franchise of almost yearly films. Godzilla vs. Megalon massively grew Godzilla's fanbase in the West due a wide theatrical release with a huge marketing push, and repeated showings on prime time television (despite being a bomb in Japan). If baby boomers had knowledge of any Godzilla media, it was probably this movie. However, this also proved to be an Audience-Coloring Adaptation, because Godzilla vs. Megalon is often considered one of the worst of the franchise, giving the impression that all kaiju movies were low-budget shlock with laughable production quality and effects, an impression which overshadowed the genre outside of Japan for decades afterwards. Although it was unpopular among fans familiar with the older films for being In Name Only, Godzilla (1998) made the name familiar to moviegoers in countries that never got the other films by virtue of being a widely-distributed Hollywood blockbuster. In fact, many people in those countries are surprised to hear that Roland Emmerich was not the original creator of Godzilla. To promote the film, Cartoon Network also aired The Godzilla Power Hour, which likewise reached a wider viewership thanks to the channel's availability. The very effective trailers for Godzilla (2014) managed to bring many more people into the Godzilla fandom before the movie itself even came out. Gareth Edwards has frequently noted that it has also brought people back into the fandom from having previously been "closet fans" before; he has been pleasantly surprised by all the unexpected people hearing about what project he is doing and telling him something along the lines of "I like Godzilla. Don't fuck it up." Godzilla 2014 and Shin Godzilla also kicked off the Reiwa Era, which has seen the kaiju genre return to heights not seen since the 60s, and therefore lead to a massive newbie boom for the genre in general.
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Newbie Boom / int_a002daa9	comment	X Japan has had several booms: The first was around 1998 (when hide's funeral hitting major worldwide media outlets brought a little interest) to around 2000ish, when MP3 trading first brought them to the awareness of a wide amount of people who weren't Japanese or devoted fans of Japanese metal. This was also the first major Chinese and Thai newbie boom, as this was around when Chinese and Thai underground DJs began to play them. The second (and first major Western) boom, on the other hand, came around 2005-07, with the debut of YouTube and the title song for Saw IV, "IV". Their Performance Video and lives were some of the first jrock uploaded to YouTube, and many Western fans first arrived either with seeing them or hide solo then them on YouTube, and the new song and promised reunion inspired some interest from existing Visual Kei/jrock fans. The third, smaller one came in 2010 with their playing Lollapalooza, which actually drew Western metal fans and, had the band not petered out for the most part after 2011 with not much activity and constant delays and rumors of breakup (which don't do much to sustain active fandom), might have been their major comeback. And now, possibly the fourth and biggest has began with international release of the documentary film We Are X. Quite a few who've never heard the band before (and some influential Western music and media people among them) now count themselves at least casual fans.
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Newbie Boom / int_a0cb7e98	comment	5 Seconds of Summer had a small but dedicated fanbase in Australia for their first year of existence, but had very few American fans until they toured with One Direction in 2013.
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Newbie Boom / int_a2add1d2	comment	Splatoon was a Sleeper Hit, but it had the misfortune on being released on a console that was a financial failure. Splatoon 2, on the other hand, was released early in the lifespan of a far more successful system and, just like its predecessor, became a Killer App. The sequel introduced many, many, many more new fans who had heard about the series but didn't try it out during the Wii U days, or became aware of the franchise through the characters appearing in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. The game was so successful that the development crew ended up extending the releases of new stages and weapons, as well as the Splatfest schedule, and it's one of the best-selling Nintendo Switch games at over ten million units sold, firmly establishing the fledgling IP as one of Nintendo's most profitable.
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Newbie Boom / int_a4515c7c	comment	OFF used to have an infinitesmal fanbase, merely a fraction of an already tiny RPG-Maker fandom. Cue a work or three going on hiatus/season break, leaving a huge chunk of Tumblr with nothing to do...
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Newbie Boom / int_a7a0b48b	comment	NieR: Automata introduced a lot of people to the works of Yoko Taro thanks to a combination of good marketing from Square Enix, good-to-great critical reception (especially in comparison to the previous titles), and the involvement of PlatinumGames who have a very well regarded reputation. Unfortunately as a result it means a lot of the newcomers end up missing out on the connections Automata has to the previous titles, and the archaic gameplay of the older games makes it hard for people who love the fluidity of Automata to go back and enjoy them. â€�Nier Replicantâ€�, a 2021 remaster of the original Nier, helped to mitigate this issue considerably.
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Newbie Boom / int_a81325d3	comment	Apparently, a lot of people think that the Final Fantasy series started with VII, because for many people, it was the first Final Fantasy game, if not the first RPG, they ever played. This is due in part to the series not being released in Europe until this point and in part to the fact that only three games were released in the United States until this point (and they weren't that well-known). There's several main generations in the VII fandom - the old generation that played the original game when it came out in 1997, the generation that played the original game when they received a hand-me-down console in the early 00s, the generation that got into the series with the Compilation titles in the late 2000s (particularly Crisis Core, which has a strong fandom of its own), the generation that started with Final Fantasy XV in 2015 and decided to check out the fan-favorite earlier entry (before the Remake came out), and a generation of fans who either played the original game when it came out on the Nintendo Switch at the end of the 2010s or Final Fantasy VII Remake a year later. As Final Fantasy is aimed at young teenagers, many of the new fans are this age, meaning that twenty years of aging technology hasn't softened the game's ability to relate to kids.
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Newbie Boom / int_a8150af4	comment	And now, with a new TV show being out, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion got a new flux of young readers interested in the books.
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Newbie Boom / int_a869f91d	comment	The Most Popular Girls in School gained an influx of new fans in August 2017 thanks to the "Pregnant" Meme.
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Newbie Boom / int_aa4e9182	comment	The Swedish group The Cardigans had the same problem after their song "Lovefool" was featured on the soundtrack to Romeo + Juliet. It brought them a lot of new fans, but since "Lovefool" was fairly atypical of their normal sound, many of those new fans ended up confused or disappointed.
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Newbie Boom / int_aa7b1a42	comment	The first two Earth Defense Force were successful in their native Japan, but their European release were very low budget translations with no marketing and the games were denied certification by Sony's American branch. As a result, it was decided that the next game would be made a Xbox 360 exclusive to increase the series popularity in the west, a gamble that paid off: while Earth Defense Force 2017's saw a slight decline in Japan due to the unpopularity of the system, good word of mouth made it a Sleeper Hit in the west and cemented EDF as Sandlot's and D3 Publisher's Cash-Cow Franchise.
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Newbie Boom / int_ae050a9f	comment	This happened to The Legend of Zelda after The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was released. It got so bad that a sizable portion of the younger fans kept referring to The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask as "Zelda 2," apparently not realizing that there were four games in the series before OoT.note Unless, of course, you count the the CDi releases, anyway...
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Newbie Boom / int_aeac03f9	comment	The reveal of Metroid Dread at E3 2021 attracted a lot of attention from people wondering why the word "Dread" had the fandom completely lose their minds, with the statement that it would be closing a story arc that diehard fans weren't even aware was a thing attracting even more intrigue. Zero Mission, Samus Returns, Fusion, and even Metroid Prime Trilogy would jump to the top of Wii U and Nintendo 3DS sales charts in the weeks following; the only reason Super Metroid didn't follow suit was because it which was available as part of Nintendo Switch Online. As for Metroid Dread itself, it became the most pre-ordered game following E3 2021 on sites like Amazon and GameStop, beating out even PokÃ©mon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, and went on to become the best-selling game in the series within its first few months.
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Newbie Boom / int_af552e7e	comment	Metroid Prime, which was the first game in the series after an eight-year hiatus. In fact, thanks to that hiatus, a fair number of newcomers came to believe that this 2002 Nintendo GameCube game was actually the first installment in the series (and meant to be Nintendo's answer to Halo: Combat Evolved), despite Metroid originating on the NES sixteen years prior. It got to the point where many referred to Metroid Prime 2: Echoes as simply Metroid 2, and the misconception that the 3D Prime games are the mainline series rather than the 2D sidescrollers is still common to this day.
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Newbie Boom / int_b0028436	comment	With the release of the 2012 anime, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure got an influx of newbies after over two decades of relative obscurity in English speaking territories (it was always popular in Japan and Europe, but had a difficult time catching on in North America due to the many music and band references causing a mess of legal issues).
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Newbie Boom / int_b0fc9724	comment	Saturday Night Live experienced a massive Newbie Boom during Season 42 after their spoofs of American politicians such as Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton gained attention on both sides of the aisle. Many of the old guard were wondering "Where did all these people come from?" as the show began gaining renewed attention after years of suffering an on-and-off reputation of "a show that has run for way too long".
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Newbie Boom / int_b30ae4db	comment	When Game of Thrones started airing, there was a definite rise in the amount of A Song of Ice and Fire books sold. House of the Dragon also attracted an increased interest for Fire & Blood.
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Newbie Boom / int_b36909d7	comment	The negative reaction to Cats and its trailers revived interest in the musical and T. S. Eliot's work. Hell, many of the new fans weren't even born yet during the musical's heyday in the 80s/90s.
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Newbie Boom / int_b4709254	comment	This wiki gets a Newbie Boom each time an outside community links in. xkcd linked here once and killed the server for part of a day.
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Newbie Boom / int_b4967d43	comment	Such a boom happened in the Sonic the Hedgehog fanbase during the early 2000's. During the early-to-mid nineties Sonic had been an icon, and probably more recognizable among children than Mickey Mouse. But by the late nineties, Sonic had sort of fallen out of style (mostly thanks to the lack of a Sonic title to serve as the Killer App for the Sega Saturn; Sonic X-treme had an infamously-troubled development and was eventually cancelled). Then along came Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Heroes, Sonic Mega Collection and Sonic X, all of which helped draw in huge amounts of new fans. The Newbie Boom of Sonic in the early 2000s can largely be attributed to the series going multiplatform after Sega retired from the hardware industry. With Sega porting Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 to the Nintendo GameCube, it allowed Nintendo fans to check out what put their once-rival on the map in the first place. This, in addition to the fact that every Sonic game from Sonic Heroes onward was available for every major console, allowed the franchise to reach a wider audience. These days, it's not uncommon for many younger Sonic fans to have started with the GameCube ports of the Sonic Adventure titles, as opposed to the Genesis originals. Unfortunately, due to all the gameplay changes the franchise has gone through over the years, this has led to the most Broken Base of any gaming fandom.
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Newbie Boom / int_b6222017	comment	Peter Gabriel himself already had something of a following by the mid-'80s, but 1986's So introduced a lot of people to his music; not only were the hits from the album played heavily on radio, but the songs' music videos (especially the video for "Sledgehammer") were put into frequent rotation on MTV.
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Newbie Boom / int_b66b61ca	comment	Rayman Origins did this to the Rayman series. For years it was a somewhat obscure platformer series that was all but considered dead due to the more popular Raving Rabbids spinoffs. With the popularity of the series revival Rayman suddenly boomed into the mainstream, many people even wanting him in Super Smash Bros..
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Newbie Boom / int_ba1083f7	comment	Any song covered in Guitar Hero. Any. Song. Special mention must be made of "Through The Fire and Flames", because the song was mostly obscure prior to the game's release.
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Newbie Boom / int_bb1b8e8c	comment	Thanks to Critical Role, a lot of people have started to join in on the Dungeons & Dragons fandom, and possibly the entire Tabletop RPG community in general. Unfortunately, this has caused what has been dubbed the Matt Mercer Effect; wherein Game Masters have different styles and people are shocked that they're not all like Matthew Mercer.
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Newbie Boom / int_bb2b811a	comment	The Divine Divinity series was a relatively obscure game line by an unknown European dev until Divinity: Original Sin took to Kickstarter in 2013, carried by the rising tide of the Western RPG renaissance. It was the game's quality upon release and extensive word of mouth that introduced worldwide audiences to the quirky world of Rivellon, and Divinity: Original Sin II's massive success on Kickstarter just two years later was largely a result of the newbie boom the previous game caused (D:OS2 then went on to spark an even bigger influx of newcomers to the series).
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Newbie Boom / int_bba90723	comment	After initially struggling to shake off the Eurovision tag, they became hugely successful in the second half of the 1970s and the early 1980s.
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Newbie Boom / int_bbb7194c	comment	And then another boom occurred when Netflix started airing Smile Pre Cure and Doki Doki! PreCure, though a bit downplayed due to them being watered-down dubs running under the name Glitter Force, but then played straight once Crunchyroll announced that Healin' Good♡Pretty Cure would be getting a subbed simulcast release, marking the first time a Pretty Cure series debuted in the west in its pure, uncut form.
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Newbie Boom / int_bc274933	comment	3-2-1 Penguins! was not as popular as its sister series VeggieTales, and thus only had 6 episodes released. Then in 2006, the qubo block on NBC picked up the rights to Big Idea's shows and paired 3-2-1 Penguins with LarryBoy: The Cartoon Adventures as part of the anthology series, 3-2-1 Penguins! and LarryBoy Stories. Surprisingly, the episodes of this anthology series featuring 3-2-1 Penguins! did better than VeggieTales in the ratings and became qubo's top-rated program among children, many of whom had never seen the show before. As a result of this boom in popularity, 21 new episodes were commissioned.
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Newbie Boom / int_bc848d30	comment	SpongeBob SquarePants: The show experienced a major ratings boom after its 10th anniversary from 2009-2013. It got to the point where the ratings of reruns actually beat many prime-time shows, as well as other children's programs, of the era. The fact that it occurred at the height of cable television's popularity definitely helped. When show creator Stephen Hillenburg died in 2018, the show, which had been declining in popularity due to The Loud House becoming a hit, and the skyrocketing popularity of streaming services and YouTube, saw a surge in popularity among children. It was also perfectly timed as the kids who originally grew up with the show in the late 90's and early 2000's now had kids of their own to share the show with.
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Newbie Boom / int_bca72091	comment	Animal Crossing: Animal Crossing: Wild World was a Breakthrough Hit for the franchise as a result of being released on a much more popular system than the previous Nintendo GameCube entry and the game overall having a much more active marketing campaign. Wild World was one of the best selling Nintendo DS games, and thus helped sparked interest in the series. Animal Crossing: New Leaf was an even bigger Killer App than Wild World. While the series couldn't be considered "niche" at all at the time, the popularity of New Leaf caused it to attract many newcomers to the series and put the Animal Crossing IP at the same level as Super Mario Bros and The Legend of Zelda. Animal Crossing: New Horizons caused a huge boom worldwide. As of early 2021, it's the second best selling Nintendo Switch game of all time. The release of the game overlapped with the COVID-19 Pandemic, which had increased the demand of video games and helped to boost the game's popularity, with it having a big prominence in the media. The game also received praise from long-time Animal Crossing players, critics and even celebrities, which helped to spark interest among people completely unfamiliar with the series. The popularity of the game has also helped boost up the sales of the Nintendo Switch, a console which was already doing very well.
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Newbie Boom / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: This tends to happen when an army gets a new Codex after a long wait, leading to some frustration as people who suffered through years of losing with unplayable armies are accused of being munchkins who jumped on the bandwagon of the latest army right when their force finally becomes competitive. The release of Dawn of War, which was well-received by both game critics and the 40K fanbase, also gave the tabletop scene an injection of popularity.
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Newbie Boom / int_bf4abb02	comment	Harley Quinn has always been a fan favorite but her mainstream popularity surged in the wake of Suicide Squad (2016).
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Newbie Boom / int_c02ce5b4	comment	House of the Dragon also attracted an increased interest for Fire & Blood.
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Newbie Boom / int_c08f5913	comment	Kirby and the Forgotten Land caused another influx of new fans. Due to being the first mainline 3D Kirby game it recieved much more attention than any Kirby game before it resulting in a lot of curious people, including several YouTubers to try out Kirby for the first time.
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Newbie Boom / int_c0d295c4	comment	Team Fortress 2 got this every two months or so during the time it was a paid game. Each time a new class pack hit, there'd usually be a TF2 free weekend, so you'd see a lot of newbies on the weekend and more people in the weeks afterwards who bought the game because of the free weekend. Even when there were no free weekends, the people who came back to TF2 just to test out the new weapons swelled server populations immensely. This predictably pales in comparison to what happened when it went Free-to-Play. All the usual elements, be it fanbase multiplication, server collapses and withering scorn for the newbies who never paid for it, all got taken even further than usual, and the bitter divide caused by the angry veterans who felt the f2p newbies ruined their game forever, the other veterans who don't feel like it's a huge deal, and the aforementioned newbies that keep coming as the rest get more experience is still felt to this day. Fortunately, the anger has become much less severe over the years, perhaps because even free to play players could have years of experience by now, perhaps because those players now greatly outnumber those who paid for the game. While using f2p as an insult is not uncommon, it's now generally only used in jest. Similar case for Left 4 Dead, which had a similar free weekend a few times. Many players who had the game for a while complained about the wave of new players flooding in and ruining their fun. They also complained about the same thing whenever Valve announced they would sell the game for at least half-off the original price for a weekend. This happens with a lot of games sold over Steam, for that matter, between both free weekends and almost everything on the catalog going on sale for 50% to 75% off or more for various holiday sales.
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Newbie Boom / int_c0eae17	comment	Total War has experienced this several times during the series run. The first occurred in 2004 with the release of Rome: Total War, which with its 3-D graphics on both the campaign and battle maps was a stand-out strategy title for the time. It was also used for a couple of TV shows, Time Commanders on the BBC and Decisive Battles on the History Channel, which helped its exposure. The second occurred with the release of Total War: Warhammer, which introduced the franchise to the legions of Warhammer fans, who now got a fully realised map of the Old World to play in and were champing at the bit to do so. The Warhammer titles have each become the most-played Total War game to date upon release. The third occurred with the release of Total War: Three Kingdoms. While smaller than the Boom from Warhammer, this was the title that introduced Total War to the massive Chinese market, with a game focused on Chinese history. It also combined the historical gameplay styles of pre-Warhammer titles with some of the fantastical elements of Warhammer, enabling crossover between what had up to that point largely been two separate fandoms.
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Newbie Boom / int_c17ac72a	comment	Godzilla 2014 and Shin Godzilla also kicked off the Reiwa Era, which has seen the kaiju genre return to heights not seen since the 60s, and therefore lead to a massive newbie boom for the genre in general.
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Newbie Boom / int_c19c6efa	comment	In its alpha days, before becoming the household name it is today, Minecraft experienced a huge boom when it was the focus of several Penny Arcade strips, a bit before the time of the Nether update. The influx of new people was enough to knock Mojang's web servers off their metaphorical feet, and for a while the Minecraft homepage was a blank white page with a few lines of text.
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Newbie Boom / int_c1a0f861	comment	Further surges of interest occurred when the jukebox musical Mamma Mia! was launched and again when the show was adapted for the big screen.
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Newbie Boom / int_c1b44782	comment	Aquaman's popularity among casual audiences surged to greater heights in the wake of the 2018 film. Before this, his appearances on Justice League, Batman: The Brave and the Bold and Smallville also attracted casual fans to the character.
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Newbie Boom / int_c23062c	comment	Godzilla vs. Megalon massively grew Godzilla's fanbase in the West due a wide theatrical release with a huge marketing push, and repeated showings on prime time television (despite being a bomb in Japan). If baby boomers had knowledge of any Godzilla media, it was probably this movie. However, this also proved to be an Audience-Coloring Adaptation, because Godzilla vs. Megalon is often considered one of the worst of the franchise, giving the impression that all kaiju movies were low-budget shlock with laughable production quality and effects, an impression which overshadowed the genre outside of Japan for decades afterwards.
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Newbie Boom / int_c2463c55	comment	Final Fantasy X was also something of a starting point for many fans due it originally releasing on the PlayStation 2 and becoming a Killer App for the system, which ended up becoming the best-selling console of all time.
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Newbie Boom / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who got this in 2005, with the launch of the new series. And although the show has had a cult profile in the US since the 1970s, since about 2008 the show's profile in the US has been on an upward curve. The fact it's one of the few explicitly SF series airing on American TV in 2010-2011 that's actually surviving and not being cancelled after a dozen episodes (or in danger of cancellation), and with there being no Star Trek-like alternative, has also attracted increased US attention. The comment above regarding newbies being drawn in by the revival only to find the older series not to their liking is also holding true with new Doctor Who fans, some of whom are finding the 1963-89 series is an acquired taste. This has led to a few schisms between aspects of fandom, such as those who declare Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant or Matt Smith the best Doctor ever, without having ever seen a Tom Baker or Jon Pertwee story in order to develop an informed opinion. Also look at any entry for Doctor Who on this very wiki which only look at the show from the revival's perspective with no knowledge of the first three decades of the show whatsoever. Let's just say it does result in a Double Take from an old series fan to see the Doctor touted as an example on romance and sex tropes as if that had always been the case.
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Newbie Boom / int_c4a22754	comment	Whether or not you're a fan of Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series can be a contentious thing in the Yu-Gi-Oh! fandom. Many people found the source material through The Abridged Series, with the abridger's characters even claiming at one point that most of the modern interest in Yu-Gi-Oh! came from his show. He's not entirely wrong, but there are those who continually mix manga canon, anime canon, and Abridged canon (or confuse Abridged characterization with canon characterization)—despite the original fans, for the most part, believing Abridged to be a different show altogether.
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Newbie Boom / int_c59ec4c1	comment	Although it was unpopular among fans familiar with the older films for being In Name Only, Godzilla (1998) made the name familiar to moviegoers in countries that never got the other films by virtue of being a widely-distributed Hollywood blockbuster. In fact, many people in those countries are surprised to hear that Roland Emmerich was not the original creator of Godzilla. To promote the film, Cartoon Network also aired The Godzilla Power Hour, which likewise reached a wider viewership thanks to the channel's availability.
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Newbie Boom / int_c7f59f7d	comment	The New Teen Titans was quite well-known in The '80s amongst comic book fans but was very much unknown outside the community, apart from Batman's sidekick Robin. With the Teen Titans cartoon, many of its characters saw increased popularity, with some of them going on to gain prominent roles in other DC Comics-based series and movies.
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Newbie Boom / int_cae652c	comment	For years Hunter Ã— Hunter was a considered a Cult Classic amongst mainstream shonen series. It was occasionally mentioned when referring to the "Big 3" (Naruto, Bleach, and One Piece) but never had the popularity of even Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) or its manga. Circa 2011 to 2014 it boomed in popularity thanks to the 2011 adaptation, along with fans of Bleach and Naruto getting into it as a substitute after their series began ending. Even more so once it wound up on Toonami, and now it is not uncommon to go to an anime convention and find a good number of cosplayers of Hunter x Hunter characters.
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Newbie Boom / int_cba3559b	comment	The creation of the TV Tropes page for Survival of the Fittest, followed by an attempt to get it to Trope Overdosed, caused a flood of new members to join the site from TV Tropes. While this was initially met with some displeasure, it could be argued that the newbie flood saved it from dying out, as the site had begun to flag in the middle of version three.
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Newbie Boom / int_cbae024e	comment	Tumblr itself started going through one in 2021-2022; thanks to a combination of Twitter users getting fed up with the more toxic aspects of the website, Elon Musk buying out Twitter and implementing a series of unpopular changes along with a fear of far-right activity and misinformation brought by his laissez-faire "free speech" policy, and most other social media platforms falling victim to Follow the Leader attempts in the name of remaining relevant and popular, people have been migrating to Tumblr because of its stability (in a comparative sense anyways) and the fact that its layout and features have generally remained the same since its inception. This hit a peak on November 17th, 2022. When a huge employee walkout brought so many returning users that the servers crashed. Much like when people originally left Tumblr for elsewhere.
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Newbie Boom / int_ce94ce33	comment	The release and eventual popularity of Jellystone! led to a resurgence of interest in Hanna-Barbera cartoons, the fans of the show having had their curiosities turned towards discovering the older works the characters were based on.
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Newbie Boom / int_cf6ccaa7	comment	Animal Crossing: New Horizons caused a huge boom worldwide. As of early 2021, it's the second best selling Nintendo Switch game of all time. The release of the game overlapped with the COVID-19 Pandemic, which had increased the demand of video games and helped to boost the game's popularity, with it having a big prominence in the media. The game also received praise from long-time Animal Crossing players, critics and even celebrities, which helped to spark interest among people completely unfamiliar with the series. The popularity of the game has also helped boost up the sales of the Nintendo Switch, a console which was already doing very well.
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Newbie Boom / int_d0877eb	comment	Phish gained new fans in 1995 after the death of Grateful Dead leader Jerry Garcia left generations of Deadheads without a band to follow around the country. Those who were interested in checking out Phish over other jam band options like Widespread Panic or Blues Traveler couldn't have picked a better time: fall 1995 is considered to be one of Phish's very best tours, with several of their most acclaimed concerts happening in that span of time. While some Deadheads were turned off by Phish's different mix of styles and jamming techniques, and did not stick around for long as a result, many others continued to follow them due to the quality of their concerts. The larger fanbase cemented Phish's status as the "heirs" to the Dead's status as the top group in the jam band scene.
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Newbie Boom / int_d1515d27	comment	Aerosmith experienced this in the mid-to-late '80s with the one-two punch of the collaboration with Runâ€“D.M.C. on the latter's cover of "Walk This Way" and the multiplatinum 1987 album Permanent Vacation. Fans of their '70s output cried foul over the glossy production that veered too much to the pop metal that was then popular in contrast to the bluesy hard rock that ironically influenced many of the same bands. Not necessarily a bad thing, as many of their old staples are well-known across generations and their classic compilations remained amongst their biggest sellers, plus their pop metal output produced some eventual fan favorites (such as "Rag Doll" and "Cryin'").
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Newbie Boom / int_d1fbfbbc	comment	The first The Twilight Saga book was published in 2005. The initial series were bestsellers but it wasn't until the movie was made a few years later that it became a cultural phenomenon.
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Newbie Boom / int_d2d729b6	comment	Eddsworld began in 2003 but its fandom peaked in the mid-2010s.
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Newbie Boom / int_d31cdea	comment	The Hunger Games. Many people noted that, in the run-up to the film's release, sales of the book were surging as people raced to see what all the hype was about.
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Newbie Boom / int_d43cbccb	comment	Luigi's Mansion is one of Nintendo's more modest series, but it saw a huge popularity bump with its third installment. Luigi's Mansion 3 would sell twice the amount of its previous two entries (plus a remake) combined within its first year, solidifying Luigi as a hero (albeit a cowardly one) in the eyes of countless new players who were eager to enjoy a Nintendo-style take on Ghostbusters. It also solidified Next Level Games' worth to Nintendo, for in a very rare move, the company would purchase NLG in early 2021 to make the Canadian developers a wholly-owned studio.
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Newbie Boom / int_d46cc708	comment	Circa 2011-2012 the Ed, Edd n Eddy fandom received a huge boost after a fan-artist on Tumblr began drawing Kevin/Edd fan-art. Until that point, most of the fandom had moved onto newer shows and the main forums were either dead or dying. A few years later, Memetic Mutation of the show's Mickey Mousing soundtrack also led to a spike in its popularity.
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Newbie Boom / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	PokÃ©mon: The Series anime had a major increase in new viewership around PokÃ©mon the Series: Diamond and Pearl.
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Newbie Boom / int_d6cfcf4d	comment	Animal Crossing: New Leaf was an even bigger Killer App than Wild World. While the series couldn't be considered "niche" at all at the time, the popularity of New Leaf caused it to attract many newcomers to the series and put the Animal Crossing IP at the same level as Super Mario Bros and The Legend of Zelda.
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Newbie Boom / int_d7081096	comment	Mother: The EarthBound fandom got a sudden surge of new members when the game finally got rereleased on the Wii U. At one point it was the most downloaded Virtual Console game on the console, which resulted in many newcomers to the series, with some being people who had never heard of the game at that point. This notably caused some friction between those who were in the cult fandom before it gained a wider audience, as not only are the newer fans more willing to point out EarthBound's flaws, they've even started to criticize Mother 3's flaws upon finding out about it, which had been considered a Sacred Cow. When the previously shelved English translation of EarthBound Beginnings came out on Wii U Virtual Console, fans that either hadn't heard of the game or didn't want to deal with the legal grayness of downloading a ROM of a No Export for You game were able to play it. Unlike EarthBound, due to its differences from later games in the series, it's considered a target for criticism, allowing fans both old and new to get along online and on Miiverse. For a time, there were even people walking others fresh off of EarthBound through the game every step of the way.
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Newbie Boom / int_d908efc	comment	The manga of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba was a modest success by the later part of 2016, its debut year in Japan, growing to sell around 130 thousand copies per volume in a month by late 2017, early 2018, a certified stable series by normal metrics. Then the anime premiered in 2019... and the series exploded to an insane degree in Japan by the time broadcast reached Episode 19 of Season 1, generating tidal waves that resonated all the way to the west. Demon Slayer went from selling close to 130k per volume in a month to selling 1 million a half copies per week in 2020 at the height of its anime generated hype and this sales insanity lasted for more than a year without end, propelling the series to break all sorts of sales records with the humongous numbers of new fans that sparked in Japan and the world. In just 4 years of publication and at mere 23 volumes in length, the manga sold 150 million copies, an outrageous milestone that no other manga in history has ever accomplished before in that exact timeframe. And the movie Mugen Train drew newbies to the series by itself: during 2020, when the world was in the heat of the COVID-19 Pandemic, it is responsible for basically single-handedly saving the cinema industry from going under after mandated closures due to the pandemic, edging out even Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away, and is the highest grossing film worldwide in 2020 (and the first non-Hollywood film to do this) as well as the highest grossing Japanese film of all time.
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Newbie Boom / int_d99024a2	comment	Genesis experienced a newbie boom after the release of their albums Duke and Abacab in the early 1980s, along with Phil Collins' budding solo career. While their pop success saved the band from falling into oblivion, and they never completely abandoned Progressive Rock, it displeased the older fans who still mourned the departure of Peter Gabriel and their steady Genre Shift from prog to pop music. The same can be said for Yes, following 1983's very successful 90125, with a (slightly) changed lineup and more New Wave-influenced and pop-friendly songs like "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" topping the charts. Fans of the more progressive Yes call themselves "Troopers" (after "Starship Trooper") and the newbies "Generators" (after 90125's followup, Big Generator.) Peter Gabriel himself already had something of a following by the mid-'80s, but 1986's So introduced a lot of people to his music; not only were the hits from the album played heavily on radio, but the songs' music videos (especially the video for "Sledgehammer") were put into frequent rotation on MTV.
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Newbie Boom / int_da973332	comment	The Angry Birds Movie did this to a lot of children. It benefited a lot of Angry Birds games, but the one that benefited the most was Angry Birds 2, which saw a huge increase in downloads compared to its first year.
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Newbie Boom / int_db30cf92	comment	The 2010s did this to Warrior Cats thanks to the large Fan Animation and fan-artist community the series has received. Many come across an animation on YouTube and become interested in reading about the series about dramatic, talking cats.
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Newbie Boom / int_ddc476b4	comment	Similar to the GameFAQs example above, fans of nearly any multiplayer game that is released from September to November complain or rejoice in the "Christmas Noob Rush," where a huge volume of new players flood the game for easy kills.
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Newbie Boom / int_de4c0209	comment	The Wandering Son was considered a Cult Classic manga for a while with a pretty small fandom. After the anime came out it didn't increase too much but it still gained a lot more notability within anime communities.
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Newbie Boom / int_de8fbcb1	comment	The very effective trailers for Godzilla (2014) managed to bring many more people into the Godzilla fandom before the movie itself even came out. Gareth Edwards has frequently noted that it has also brought people back into the fandom from having previously been "closet fans" before; he has been pleasantly surprised by all the unexpected people hearing about what project he is doing and telling him something along the lines of "I like Godzilla. Don't fuck it up."
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Newbie Boom / int_e04f934e	comment	After Awakening came Fire Emblem: Three Houses, which pretty quickly eclipsed the former game as the best selling in the series, and solidified the franchise's mainstream appeal to the point of coming away with two nods at The Game Awards 2019 for Best Strategy Game and People's Voice.
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Newbie Boom / int_e21a006	comment	BTS had been doubling their fanbase every year for 7 years, but the release of Dynamite brought in a massive wave of new fans who hadn't given them a chance before. In October 2022, they held a crossover with Cookie Run: Kingdom for promotion for their Busan "Yet to Come" concert where they would be playable characters, causing an influx of Cookie Run Kingdom fans to get into the band. Funnily enough, "Dynamite" was the song that was used to represent the seven as a whole.
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Newbie Boom / int_e21e270	comment	Sia has been making music since the 1990s however she didn't start becoming mainstream until "Titanium", "Wild Ones" and "Chandelier" in the 2010s.
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Newbie Boom / int_e3ed54c7	comment	Pretty Cure: Pre-Heartcatch: a small, happy fandom struggling to get subs and shake off the "yuri fanboy" label. Post-Heartcatch: WHERE DID ALL THESE PEOPLE COME FROM. The reason for the boom is twofold: Heartcatch was the second series of a new era of Precure seasons after Fresh Pretty Cure! changed many of the Classic/Pre-Fresh era's conventions, and Heartcatch also attracted a bigger, more prolific fansub group, bringing the English-speaking fandom same-week or even same-day fansubs for the first time. It also helps that Heartcatch premiered around the same time that the original series was airing a dub in Canada and the UK, which may have led some curious viewers to learn about the other installments in the franchise. Another boom happened during HuGtto! Pretty Cure due to it being the series' 15th anniversary and due to many news sites covering episode 19's take on gender roles with the character Henri and his Pretty Cure transformation months later. And then another boom occurred when Netflix started airing Smile Pre Cure and Doki Doki! PreCure, though a bit downplayed due to them being watered-down dubs running under the name Glitter Force, but then played straight once Crunchyroll announced that Healin' Good♡Pretty Cure would be getting a subbed simulcast release, marking the first time a Pretty Cure series debuted in the west in its pure, uncut form.
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Newbie Boom / int_e46d33d6	comment	The fandom for Encanto grew significantly after its release on Disney+, especially on TikTok.
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Newbie Boom / int_e5d59ed1	comment	The DayZ mod for ARMA II was given coverage by Rooster Teeth, resulting in what was once a semi-popular mod among the existing ARMA fanbase becoming a phenomenon loaded with clueless newbies who have no clue just what they're getting into with a realistic zombie survival simulator, to the point where more than one person bought the game just for the mod - even the Steam pages for ARMA II and the Operation Arrowhead expansion specifically mention that both are required for DayZ.
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Newbie Boom / int_e6a2610e	comment	Archive of Our Own had a huge influx of newcomers in June 2012; many of them had left Fanfiction.net in protest at the latter site's crackdown on M-rated stories during that time. A decade earlier than that, in 2002, Adult-Fanfiction.org (previously using a .net web address) received its biggest surge in users, back when Fanfiction.net officially removed the NC-17 rating from its stories (back when that site was using the MPAA's movie ratings before switching to its own system some years later).
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Newbie Boom / int_e9e265b6	comment	Fire Emblem: Awakening. While Super Smash Bros. Melee was what scored international interest in the Fire Emblem series, with Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade being the first entry to leave Japanese shores, the series would remain quite niche. All games after The Blazing Blade would sell rather poorly, to the point where the developers thought they'd have to shelf the franchise entirely after one last game. That one last game? Awakening, which not only became the first entry in the series to sell more than a million copies, but also completely revitalized the franchise and finally made the titles popular overseas, which is where the bulk of those newfound sales originated from. You can see why all three of the game's main protagonists got into Smash (though the main character, Chrom, had to wait until Super Smash Bros. Ultimate to be added to the roster).
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Newbie Boom / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy had a song by The Trashmen called "Surfin' Bird" repeatedly play out in the episode "I Dream of Jesus" where Peter gets obsessed over the song. This caused fans of the show who had never heard of the song before to go on YouTube to find the song and comment they wanted to find it because of Family Guy. American Dad! managed the same in a smaller scale: the episode "In Country... Club" had one scene backed by the Creedence Clearwater Revival song "Fortunate Son" - and now comments on videos of the song on YouTube aren't entirely dominated by people having discovered it through Call of Duty: Black Ops. But that song wasn't nearly as forgotten prior to its resurrection as "Surfin' Bird" was.
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Newbie Boom / int_eb59224d	comment	In 2015, the LazyTown fandom was all but dormant, with Chloe Lang's run as Stephanie having mixed reception amongst the fandom. Come 2016, and Stefan Karl Stefansson was revealed to have cancer and a GoFundMe was set up to pay for his living costs, causing people to make memes out of "We Are Number One" to encourage donations and the fandom to grow significantly. Next thing you know, the old guard were saying "Where did all these meme lovers come from?"
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Newbie Boom / int_ebc16974	comment	With the release of Street Fighter IV a wave of new users swarmed the SRK site's forum. Pages of posts containing simple questions and naive arguments started with veterans of the series created a big split between spiteful older members and new posters. "09er" was a unkind term born out of the join date immediately visible on every member's post. It became a pretty hostile environment and seemed difficult to discuss the game as a new player. 'Newbie questions' were limited to a couple threads on the main SF4 discussion forum which did little to stop the problem because the character forums were far more popular. As a result, the updated forum has a clearly visible section for discussion of the basics of the game and the join date of members is in their profile rather than displayed on every post.
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Newbie Boom / int_ec28245c	comment	On a global scale, Dragon Ball Z's 1996 dub in the US, and the Latin Spanish dub of Dragon Ball in the previous year, started an explosion of interest in Dragon Ball overseas after it was starting to wind down in Japan with Dragon Ball GT. The introduction of Dragon Ball Z Kai, and especially Dragon Ball Super, have done this in a more traditional sense.
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Newbie Boom / int_ec52a5b9	comment	Transformers (2007) obliterated initial expectations and revitalized the Transformers franchise to levels not seen since the original 80's show. The toyline was initially based on projections from the most recent animated show of the time (Transformers: Cybertron on Cartoon Network) and store shelves were nearly empty for weeks before they could get them stocked again. This in turn helped form the direction for the rest of the franchise for decades to come, taking cues from the story and character designs of the films.
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Newbie Boom / int_ec80dae4	comment	Zero Punctuation gave The Escapist a huge boom in members.
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Newbie Boom / int_ee384546	comment	Cyberpunk 2077 had an infamously disasterous launch, yet despite this, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners got people to return to the game and bring in some new ones, and while the game itself hadn't completely fixed its initial problems, the efforts taken to get the game fixed up since those 2 years got players to see it more favorably. A second, larger one would occur following the release of Cyberpunk's 2.0 update and Phantom Liberty Expansion. Between the positive word of mouth and significant gameplay overhauls, public opinion had largely turned around, and lead to the game's Steam player count rising to more than double its Edgerunners peak.
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Newbie Boom / int_eef69f10	comment	Sherlock Holmes has always been a popular series but the BBC version really made the fandom boom.
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Newbie Boom / int_ef076a36	comment	It happened again in the 2010s when the existing shows at the time were added to Netflix. Voyager in particular gained a whole new influx of fans, becoming the most-streamed series of the franchise.
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Newbie Boom / int_ef215943	comment	PAYDAY: The Heist had a significant rise in the player base when Overkill released the No Mercy DLC, which was a map that took place in same No Mercy hospital from Valve's Left 4 Dead. PAYDAY 2 has had two of these in the form of official community events designed to attract new players. The first of these, titled "Crimefest", saw current players convincing people to join the official Steam group, with free content being unlocked when the group reached a certain size. The second, titled "Hype Train", was rather similar, only with the new goal of purchasing enough games and DLC to build up enough 'hype fuel' to reach the final destination. Both events featured free weekends, massive sales for both the game and all DLCs, resulting in a relatively large player boom. The Hype Train in particular saw crossovers with both Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number and SpeedRunners, drawing attention from those fanbases as well.
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Newbie Boom / int_f04b4111	comment	Metroid: Metroid Prime, which was the first game in the series after an eight-year hiatus. In fact, thanks to that hiatus, a fair number of newcomers came to believe that this 2002 Nintendo GameCube game was actually the first installment in the series (and meant to be Nintendo's answer to Halo: Combat Evolved), despite Metroid originating on the NES sixteen years prior. It got to the point where many referred to Metroid Prime 2: Echoes as simply Metroid 2, and the misconception that the 3D Prime games are the mainline series rather than the 2D sidescrollers is still common to this day. Metroid went through a minor boom when Super Metroid went on sale for $0.30 on the Wii U Virtual Console. It became one of the best-selling downloadable games on the console, and newbies being a huge portion of the buyers is evidenced by the infamous plethora of Miiverse posts by people unable to figure out how to use the Morph Ball. The reveal of Metroid Dread at E3 2021 attracted a lot of attention from people wondering why the word "Dread" had the fandom completely lose their minds, with the statement that it would be closing a story arc that diehard fans weren't even aware was a thing attracting even more intrigue. Zero Mission, Samus Returns, Fusion, and even Metroid Prime Trilogy would jump to the top of Wii U and Nintendo 3DS sales charts in the weeks following; the only reason Super Metroid didn't follow suit was because it which was available as part of Nintendo Switch Online. As for Metroid Dread itself, it became the most pre-ordered game following E3 2021 on sites like Amazon and GameStop, beating out even PokÃ©mon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, and went on to become the best-selling game in the series within its first few months.
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Newbie Boom / int_f0c816fb	comment	Breaking Bad has gained a lot more fans since its arrival on Netflix and the buzz over its final seasons than it had beforehand.
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Newbie Boom / int_f3818d0a	comment	The Moomins saw an influx of new fans in the late 2010s, thanks largely to the crowdfunding campaign around the Moominvalley animated series.
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Newbie Boom / int_f3ae2950	comment	Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance has been one of the most popular Stylish Action games for a long time, but suddenly in 2022, the game permeated itself across many facets of the memescape, and its sheer presence created one of the biggest examples of Watch It for the Meme. At its peak, the number of peak concurrent players jumped up as much as 10 times its usual on Steam.
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Newbie Boom / int_f62adb88	comment	Defense of the Ancients: All-Stars is a very popular custom map among the Warcraft 3 players and eventually pioneered a new genre. Although it was the "original" MOBA, a large portion of players were introduced to the genre from stand-alone MOBAs such as League of Legends. DotA itself got its own newbie boom when Dota 2 was released, finally giving the game its own ground to stand on, not to mention it caught the interest of people completely unfamiliar with the genre simply because it was developed by Valve.
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Newbie Boom / int_f6e2c23d	comment	When the previously shelved English translation of EarthBound Beginnings came out on Wii U Virtual Console, fans that either hadn't heard of the game or didn't want to deal with the legal grayness of downloading a ROM of a No Export for You game were able to play it. Unlike EarthBound, due to its differences from later games in the series, it's considered a target for criticism, allowing fans both old and new to get along online and on Miiverse. For a time, there were even people walking others fresh off of EarthBound through the game every step of the way.
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Newbie Boom / int_f858847a	comment	The competitive sub-fandom faced a Newbie Boom with PokÃ©mon X and Y, due to Game Freak making the myriad of systems required to enter it (IV-breeding, hidden abilities, and EV training) easier to understand, access, and perform.
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Newbie Boom / int_f899a66f	comment	The third occurred with the release of Total War: Three Kingdoms. While smaller than the Boom from Warhammer, this was the title that introduced Total War to the massive Chinese market, with a game focused on Chinese history. It also combined the historical gameplay styles of pre-Warhammer titles with some of the fantastical elements of Warhammer, enabling crossover between what had up to that point largely been two separate fandoms.
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Newbie Boom / int_fa003b78	comment	WarioWare Gold was not only an acclaimed Surprisingly Improved Sequel that took the WarioWare series back to its roots, but it helped bring the series into the mainstream and also re-introduced and endeared the WarioWare crew to new audiences who didn't bother with the series beforehand. The top-notch presentation and hilarious story being a clinching point. Gold also had the novelty of being the first entry in the series that was fully voice-acted, something rarely seen in a Nintendo game, which was another major hook that won over new fans (and the dubs were done in multiple languages, for all of which they were acclaimed for their exceptional quality).
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Newbie Boom / int_fa95bcb	comment	With the release of some info on the then-upcoming Postal III around 2009, the previous game in the series, for a time, went from "incredibly obscure" to just "slightly obscure". The same effect happened again after Postal 3 actually came out and turned out to be an Executive Meddling-induced trainwreck - Running With Scissors managed to get the original games released over Steam's Greenlight service to distance themselves from "Russian Postal", meaning all the aforementioned non-playing fans of the series now had the chance to actually play it.
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Newbie Boom / int_fb9c177d	comment	Transformers has always been a well loved geek property, but in the West, it went into decline around the end of the '80s. Beast Wars was a major Retool in the '90s that revitalized the brand, and following another dip in popularity near the end of the decade, Transformers: Armada (a series that was met with an at best lukewarm reception from older fans) proved to be an even bigger moneymaker that helped stabilize the brand and brought vehicle-based Transformers back into fame. Transformers: Rescue Bots also helped bring in new fans at a really young age, as many parents who may not have let their kids watch the more "mature", war-themed TF shows gave their approval to this child-friendly installment.
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Newbie Boom / int_fd8ef85e	comment	Left 4 Dead was popular, but Left 4 Dead 2 became even more popular and was the first game for many newcomers to play. When The Passing DLC was released, people who never played the first Left 4 Dead wondered who the other survivors were (Zoey, Francis, and Louis), until an update ported all of the first game's campaigns to the second.
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Newbie Boom / int_fe85bfc8	comment	Super Smash Bros.: Super Smash Bros. 64 was very successful in sales, but it wasn't until the Melee incarnation that the series really got popular. Many people that started with Super Smash Bros. Melee were surprised to see there was a game before it. Melee is also said to be the gateway series that introduced many new players to the greater Fighting Game Community. Thanks to being a Massive Multiplayer Crossover, the Smash series itself tends to give other franchises a Colbert Bump. The most notable examples over the years are Mothernote (A JRPG series that sold poorly in North America because of an awkward marketing campaign, and may have become forgotten in the West if it wasn't for Ness being one of the original fighters in Smash 64. All three games in the series are now considered Cult Classics.), Fire Emblemnote (The trope namer for Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros.", the popularity of Marth and Roy led to the series finally getting localized from the seventh game onward, giving the games a foothold in the West until its own, self-created Newbie Boom grew the fanbase and cemented its popularity a decade later.), and Kid Icarus.note (The newfound attention got the North America-only sequel to see release on the Japanese Virtual Console, followed by an entirely new game produced by Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai himself.) Fighters added as DLC especially get this treatment, thanks to receiving much greater focus in dedicated Nintendo Direct videos where their franchise history is explained in detail.
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