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Popularity Polynomial

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Popularity Polynomial	comment	This is when something which portrays itself as "cutting edge" becomes mainstream, but soon becomes overexposed, behind the times, old hat, or just plain uncool. However, given enough time, it suddenly begins to make a comeback, usually accompanied by words like "vintage," "nostalgic," and "classic." It's gone through the ups and downs of the popularity polynomial. How often the item cycles back and forth between "cool" and "not cool" depends on many factors. If something reached a peak when you and your friends were kids, then when you become tweens or teens, it is a reminder of a childish time — and as the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up set in, you don't want to think about it. But when you reach your later teens or become adults, it is seen as harmless. And once your kids discover it, it may even become cool again (as long as they don't associate it with their uncool parents). Now apply that on a larger scale. Given enough cycles, it becomes the equivalent of a Cyclic Trope. The name comes from the fact that we like alliterative names, and some of us are math geeks. Here's also a more detailed explanation about what a polynomial is and what it has to do with the ups and downs of popularity.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_1a4b3ea2	comment	Digimon certainly deserves a mention. The first anime series was immensely popular and brought in huge profits, but sales started to dwindle little by little with each new season. Eventually there were very large hiatuses in between series due to disappointing toy sales.... Until Toei tried marketing to nostalgic adults and teens with Digimon Adventure tri., as well as more adult targeted merch of the first three series, which was a roaring success. Playing to nostalgia was enough to bring Digimon back into the limelight, and just as much merch is being made now was it was around the time Adventure aired. The fandom also started thriving and becoming active due to people who hadn't engaged with the fandom since they were kids coming back in droves. However, with the fleeting reception of tri after the first few episodes, its even worse received sequel movie and the polarizing reboot, the franchise seems to have hit a bump again.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_1a76a111	comment	On his debut, the Crash Bandicoot series was hailed as Sony's answer to Nintendo's Mario or Sega's Sonic. Crash's first three games were lauded for their tight gameplay and beautiful art design, and even the spinoff kart racer Crash Team Racing was seen as one of the better examples of that genre. However, series creator Naughty Dog eventually moved on to greener pastures and left the rights to the property with Universal, whose new, multiplatform installments met varying levels of success but were regarded as inferior to the original trilogy, which led to the franchise being handed to Sierra, and later Activision when they bought Sierra. Crash fell out of the spotlight as a result, reaching a nadir with the poorly-received Crash: Mind Over Mutant. Eventually, even the original games were seen as not all that great, their 2Â½D platforming gameplay being remembered as both frustrating and technologically backwards in comparison to games like Super Mario 64. However, the announcement of the N. Sane Trilogy in 2017, a Compilation Rerelease of complete remakes of the first three games, was met with much resounding fanfare from old Crash fans, and its release was met with critical and commercial success (despite, or perhaps because of, it being even harder than the originals). With the success of the N. Sane Trilogy leading to a remake of Crash Team Racing and a brand new game that follows on directly from the first three (and ignores the rest), many will agree that the Crash Bandicoot series has regained its former spotlight and has won over many new fans.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_1af3cde6	comment	Cats was the musical during the 80s, but as Broadway moved on to less flashy endeavors in the 1990s, the jokes about its niche premise and unusual costumes became more and more common. Eventually the only time it was referenced would be when it was to be poked fun at. In the 2010s however, with musicals becoming more popular in general, the show received new fans and ultimately ended up getting a revival and a movie (although the latter infamously bombed with critics and audiences).
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Popularity Polynomial / int_1afa31a2	comment	RENT was a huge hit when it premiered on Broadway. It was acclaimed and loved by audiences, becoming one of the most popular Broadway musicals of the 1990s. Then, around the mid-2000s, the musical started to get dismissed as narmy and overrated by audiences. Hype Backlash had set in and the show eventually had its final showing in 2008. The failed film adaptation surely didn't help things. Fast-forward to the 2010s and it is again being recognized as a fantastic work of drama with interesting compositions that were unlike anything at the time. RENT continues to hold a high popularity and seems to be making a comeback with audiences.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_1dd6d08b	comment	Theatrical adaptations of TV cartoons: The Care Bears movies were fairly successful but other '80s TV adaptations didn't do very well (ex: Rainbow Brite, The Transformers: The Movie, The Chipmunk Adventure). The underperformances of The Jetsons and DuckTales movies in the summer of 1990 likely prevented studios from greenlighting other movies based on then-popular TV cartoons, with the ones that were released, like Batman: Mask of the Phantasm and A Goofy Movie, not doing well enough to change this mindset. Several years later, Paramount had success with Beavis and Butt-Head, Rugrats, and South Park movies that all came out in a three-year period. Suddenly, it seemed every somewhat popular TV cartoon was getting a theatrical movie, some studios going so far to reformat movies originally meant to be Direct to Video to theatrical release. The only two that did very good business during this era were PokÃ©mon: The First Movie and The Tigger Movie, while movies based on Doug, Digimon, Recess, Cowboy Bebop, Hey Arnold!, The Powerpuff Girls, VeggieTales, The Wild Thornberrys, Teacher's Pet, Clifford the Big Red Dog, and Yu-Gi-Oh! as well as subsequent PokÃ©mon, Rugrats, and Winnie the Pooh films, among others, did more middling business or outright bombed. While the first two SpongeBob SquarePants movies (the first of which was greenlit at the height of this craze but not released until it had died down quite a bit, and the sequel was greenlit more to give Paramount's feature animation division an accessible and commercial first film than anything else), Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters (which, despite its lower box office gross, turned a profit due to its low budget), and The Simpsons Movie (which came out a while after this trend died down, but had the benefit of being the long awaited theatrical debut of one of the most well known and influential animated series in American television history) were all more successful, it doesn't seem to be enough to turn a trend just yet. Since then, only a handful of TV cartoons have gotten theatrical releases to relatively little success, with the films of shows like Totally Spies!, Regular Show, Steven Universe, We Bare Bears, Phineas and Ferb, The Loud House, and Miraculous Ladybug going straight to television or streaming in the United States.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_22e5872a	comment	The Donkey Kong Country games were huge in the mid-'90s, with critics and gamers alike praising them to no end. While Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! may not have had the impact the first two games had,note It was, after all, released two months after Super Mario 64 on what had become Nintendo's Daddy System, by which time 2D platformers were perceived as a thing of the past. the series remained popular, even if the critical praise tapered a bit drawing closer to the Turn of the Millennium, with other, formerly less-hyped games being favored on the whole in retrospect. Opinions really began to shift following the release of Donkey Kong 64, which many reviewers panned as an uninspired Fetch Quest, and by the mid-2000s a full-fledged Hype Backlash had set in, with it becoming trendy among critics and gamers to badmouth the series. Most retrospectively attribute this to spite over Rare's decision in late 2002 to leave Nintendo for Microsoft, and their subsequent Audience-Alienating Era, while others point to a well-publicized quote by Shigeru Miyamoto (one that he later backed away from) dismissing the series as pure style over substancenote "Donkey Kong Country proves that players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good." Regardless, the Donkey Kong Country series found its way onto many "Most Overrated Games of All Time" lists, and came to be seen as a prime example of all that was wrong with the Video Game 3D Leap in the mid-'90s. Fortunately, the backlash subsided greatly after Donkey Kong Country Returns became a massive critical and commercial success, the series' reputation returning to greatness among critics and gamers.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_28724fb2	comment	Titanic (1997) became the highest-grossing movie ever and won eleven Oscars, tying the record set by the 1959 film Ben-Hurnote and since matched again by The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and defying all the predictions of industry commentators who worried that, after its very long and expensive development, it was just too ambitious to succeed. Then the overexposure (particularly of the CÃ©line Dion theme), Hype Backlash, annoying Leonardo DiCaprio fangirls, and the overall schmaltzy and melodramatic tone of the movie damaged both its reputation and popularity. Cameron was seen as having squandered his hard-earned geek cred by making a glorified Chick Flick, and DiCaprio, once seen as a rising star like Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, got pigeonholed as a Pretty Boy pin-up for the Tiger Beat set, a Typecasting that it took him years to break out of. But by the time the movie turned 15 and got a 3D re-release in theaters, all was forgiven and forgotten, and the film is once more celebrated as up there with Aliens and the first two Terminator films as one of Cameron's masterpieces. This episode of Really That Good goes into more detail on the backlash and reappraisal.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_29ae079f	comment	In-universe, the 1967 film To Sir, with Love laid this bare for the audience in a scene where Mark Thackeray (Sidney Poitier) informs his disbelieving students about many things that are Older Than They Think: their clothing is from the 1920s, their hairstyles from the 16th century, and so on. A trip to a museum later in the film re-lampshades it when one of the students is shown with his head next to that of a Renaissance statue — and they both have the same haircut.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_2a893b9b	comment	Counter-Strike, and E-sports based FPS in general, are this as well. Late 90s most multiplayer games are geared for competitive gaming. However in the 2000s, for first person (while MOBA are practically born in 2005 with DOTA) it died down as the trend is rising towards cinematic action and high quality graphics that seems to be only suited for high-end rig at the time. In the last decade of the 2000s and the early years of The New '10s, console FPS are primarily played casually. Come the mid leg of The New '10s, and Counter Strike saw its return with Counter Strike Global Offensive, along with other competitive shooters like Quake saw its return, and with them, the prominent E-Sports community.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_2bbcacd9	comment	Looney Tunes. The characters were created during the 1930s and grew immensely popular during the war years, but fizzled out by The '60s due to the departure of most of its creative team from Warner Bros.note The studio closed between 1964 and 1967 (the void filled by DePatie-Freleng), before closing for good in 1969. The final cartoon of the original series was a rare Cool Cat (no, not that one) cartoon called Injun Trouble. By then, however, the original Looney Tunes shorts had been repackaged for First-Run Syndication in the case of the pre-1948 material, and Saturday Morning Cartoons and later prime-time specials for the post-1948 material, renewing their popularity among young people. But this too died out with the rise of the Merchandise-Driven "toy shows" of the '80s. And then Tiny Toon Adventures, which is all about child Expys of the original Tunes, started a revival, culminating in Space Jam, which combined classic Looney Tunes humor with a story accessible to '90s youth thanks to the involvement of Michael Jordan. The buzz was so large that WBnote which by then had regained the pre-1948 shorts via Time Warner's merger with Turner Broadcasting released some of the original shorts in VHS compilations to get kids to better familiarize with the classic characters, and today the film is remembered on the Internet as a Fountain of Memes. Between the Cartoon Network's "June Bugs" marathons, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, and multiple original TV shows (from focused ones like Taz-Mania and Duck Dodgers to ensembles like The Looney Tunes Show), the Looney Tunes' popularity has been on-off since then.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_2e2efbf9	comment	Skateboarding has similarly fluctuated in and out of popularity so much that nobody seems to care whether or not it's "in", least of all the skaters themselves. Skateboarding was big in the mid-to-late Seventies, largely on the back of the popularity of surfing at that time. It died away in the early Eighties, until, of all things, Back to the Future mainstreamed it again.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_2f3aa7ef	comment	My Little Pony, after its enormous popularity during the '80s and early '90s, faded into obscurity by the latter half of the '90s and the 2000s, remembered only as the worst sort of saccharine pap from an era in animation that already didn't have the best reputation (as noted above). In 2010, along came My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, which proved to be popular among viewers of an unexpectedly wide age range to explode onto the Internet, collecting more images, comments, and views on Know Your Meme than anything else for a few years. This trend started to reverse around 2014, where the series' fandom hit its peak of activity and numbers and afterwards started to gradually decline. While it's still fairly large and active by the standards of cartoon fandoms, it's far from the sheer size and omnipresence of its early 2010s iteration.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_31e1eca3	comment	Back in the late '90s, the series as a whole was the king of kid fads. However, it quickly faded among people who only played it to be "cool", and in a few short years, the only people who would still publicly admit to liking it were small children (though the games were still system sellers). After the release of PokÃ©mon Diamond and Pearl, it started making a comeback, and the 2016 launch of the PokÃ©mon GO AR game firmly cemented it. Kids can safely admit to liking it in public again, longtime fans are no longer bashed for it, and those kids who were only fans back in the day are now grown-ups old enough to wax nostalgic about it, as seen in the page image. In addition, a Japanese clothing company released a line of PokÃ©-merchandise specifically targeted at adult PokÃ©-fans, with an "artsier" bent to it. However, the above is mostly restricted to the games: while there is not as much hate for the PokÃ©mon anime as around the Johto arc, it still hasn't recovered quite as much as the games did.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_3575f9a	comment	The Aeneid versus its predecessors, The Iliad and The Odyssey. For many years, The Aeneid was considered the true accounting of the war, and practically required reading for any aspiring creative worker. This is for several reasons, chief among them being that Vergil's work deals primarily with the history of Rome, and most Renaissance thinkers were Italian. It was also written in Latin, which was much more widely-understood than Homer's Greek. As a result, many writers ended up inheriting Vergil's interpretations, which usually depicted the Greeks in a poor light. However, these days, it's reversed; most people have read or at least know the plot of Homer's works, while Vergil's are mostly read by Latin students. This may be due to the rising popularity of Greek mythology and culture, the proliferation of translated versions of Homer eliminating the language barrier, or the greater mass-appeal of a massive war and a decades-long adventure as opposed to Vergil's more introverted work. Audiences today read The Divine Comedy and wonder what poor Odysseus is doing at the Eighth Circle of Hell.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_36a99a80	comment	At its peak, Shrek was a franchise as big as the green ogre himself. The original Shrek won the first Oscar for Best Animated Feature, and Shrek 2 became one of the highest-grossing films at the time. After that, the franchise's formula quickly grew stale as it spawned a host of mediocre imitators, which seeped back into Shrek itself with the poor reviews of Shrek the Third. This led to the downfall of Shrek-style "snarky" animated movies and the rise of more drama-based animated movies such as How to Train Your Dragon and Frozen as well as the more irreverent humor Illumination Studios and the Warner Animation Group began to grow in popularity. For a while, the Shrek franchise was seen as a poorly-aged product of its time that relied too much on contemporary references, and the aforementioned mediocre imitators furthered the franchise's reputation as having ruined western cartoon movies. However, Memetic Mutation led to an upsurge of ironic popularity for the Shrek series, which eventually grew into unironic popularity as its fans grew up and revisited the movies, and were able to appreciate them anew due to their wittiness, 2000s nostalgia, and hidden heartfelt themes underneath the snarkiness. As of the late 2010s, while not to the level of the early 2000s, the first two Shrek movies are well-liked and appreciated as modern classics, and Shrek Forever After has quite a few fans and defenders as well. In fact, it was this renewed unironic popularity (and there's its influence, for better or worse, on animated films in the 21st century) that made it the first animated film released in the 21st century, the first non Disney animated film and only the 2nd CGI animated film (after Toy Story) to be added into the National Film Registry in 2020. Furthermore, the fandom is so big that it even has its own page on Wikipedia.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_44127c7c	comment	Power Rangers was a huge phenomenon in the early '90s, but it began to slowly dwindle until about 2002, when it was bought by Disney, things getting worse afterwards. It had a short burst of success then, but Disney was apathetic towards the franchise at even the best of times, and it essentially culminated in its cancellation in 2009 after Power Rangers RPM. However, soon after, the franchise was bought back by Saban, hopped over to Nickelodeon, and after an upswing which culminated in Power Rangers (2017), it remains somewhat popular in the mainstream, helped by Hasbro's buyout of the franchise, the all-around improved reception of their first two series, Power Rangers Beast Morphers and Power Rangers Dino Fury (with the latter's second season being made exclusive to Netflix), and to top it off another big screen reboot expected to hit theaters in 2023.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_49729b9c	comment	The effects of Scream revitalizing the horror genre (and slashers in particular) are visible in how the reputation of Halloween (1978) has evolved over the years. While it's always had, at the very least, a cult fandom, in the late '80s and early '90s its status as the Trope Codifier for the Slasher Movie was an albatross around its neck more than anything, and many critics blamed it for drowning the horror genre in a wave of gorn-soaked hack-'n-slashes (despite the fact that Halloween itself was comparatively bloodless). With the reappraisal of slashers in general starting in the late '90s, its reputation has recovered, and most critics once more recognize it as a classic.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_52fca0e9	comment	Star Trek: Insurrection was reasonably well-received on its initial release — not to the same extent as the preceding Star Trek: First Contact, which had gotten some of the best reviews of the entire franchise, but certainly better than Star Trek: Generations, the first film to focus on the case of Star Trek: The Next Generation — with solid box-office returns and critics hailing it as an exception to the Star Trek Movie Curse. In the years after its initial release however, opinions on the film began to sour, with many viewers finding the overall storyline to be forgettable, and feeling that the moral dilemma at the story's heart was poorly presented to the point of making the alleged villains more sympathetic than the society that the Enterprise crew was trying to protect. Fan opinions towards the film began to improve towards the back end of the 2010s, with newer, more controversial entries in the franchise causing what had been the biggest weakness of Insurrection, namely its playing it safe with the established Star Trek formula, to now be considered one of its biggest strengths. Additionally, changing attitudes towards cultural sensitivity and preservation caused many viewers to become much more sympathetic to the basic concept behind the storyline, even if there were still faults in the execution, and many also now appreciate that it finally did something with the decade-old Ship Tease between Riker and Troi, helping to turn them into what many consider the Official Couple of the entire Star Trek franchise. While Insurrection is unlikely to be considered by many as one of the better Star Trek film's, it's at least rebounded to being seen as a largely competent entry that doesn't have any majorly contentious story elements.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_671d5c19	comment	A similar case occurred with The Powerpuff Girls (1998): One of the most popular cartoons of the late '90s and early 2000s, until its reputation tanked hard in 2002 when The Powerpuff Girls Movie flopped and Craig McCracken left the show to make Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. However, the show regained its popularity in later years, and various adaptations in the form of one-off specials, a couple of new comic book series, and a reboot for 2016. However, the reboot was made without the involvement or blessing of the original cast or crew, and was roundly despised by critics and fans of the original. Another reboot was announced in 2022, this time with McCracken back at the helm.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_691be369	comment	The X-Files was one of the shows (along with The Simpsons, Married... with Children, and NFC football) that catapulted the young Fox network to the big leagues in The '90s. Its mix of a sci-fi Myth Arc inspired by real-life UFO lore and the chemistry between its leads, FBI agents Mulder and Scully, turned it into a pop culture phenomenon that received two spinoffs (Millennium (1996) and The Lone Gunmen) and a theatrically-released film adaptation at the height of its run. However, the Seasonal Rot that the show suffered in its last few seasons killed most interest in the Myth Arc, which by then had turned into a Kudzu Plot that made the show and its creator, Chris Carter, the Trope Namers for The Chris Carter Effect. The show went out with a whimper in 2002, and a second movie released in 2008 met a poor reception and seemed to confirm that the show's fandom was dead. Worse, as Carter himself pointed out, the 9/11 attacks and The War on Terror destroyed the cultural climate that allowed The X-Files to become such a hit, consigning the conspiracy theories that the show was built around to the political fringes and making the entire concept seem like a relic of a more innocent time. Even the show's remaining fans often told new viewers to stick to the Monster of the Week episodes rather than get caught up in the convoluted Myth Arc. However, in 2016, Fox aired a new, six-episode Mini Series event that brought back the original cast and crew and continued plotlines that had been Left Hanging for fourteen years, in the process retconning many of the more unpopular elements of the Myth Arc that had come in during its Seasonal Rot. While "season 10" overall wasn't universally acclaimed, it did reignite interest in the original series, which had become easier than ever to watch in the age of streaming and binge-watching (the show being a prime example of Better on DVD). Nowadays, retrospectives on The X-Files tend to look back on it more favorably, focusing on the Glory Days of the Myth Arc and the innovations it brought to television (especially sci-fi and fantasy television) now that its Audience-Alienating Era has fallen into the past.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons was first published in 1974, and got big in the 80s, with the Satanic Panic seen in hindsight to have helped sales rather than hurt them. It declined in the 90s when the panic faded, due to TSR's many issues, and was surpassed as the top-selling RPG by Vampire: The Masquerade. TSR eventually collapsed and was bought out by Wizards of the Coast, who launched 3rd Edition and reignited the game's popularity, but 4th Edition was seen as too much of a change by many players, who migrated to Pathfinder. 5th Edition was much better recieved, and live plays like Critical Role created a surge in interest among people who had not previously been roleplayers.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_6b85085e	comment	Mortal Kombat in The '90s: a ridiculously popular 2D fighting game, with blood and gore as a selling point. Mortal Kombat during the Turn of the Millennium: an confusing, ridiculously unbalanced 3D fighting game series past its prime (the Lighter and Softer crossover with DC not helping anything), and suffered heavily from its poorly-done Video Game 3D Leap. Mortal Kombat starting with the 2011 reboot: a ridiculously popular fighting game that uses 3D graphics but is played on a 2D plane, with blood and gore as a selling point.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_7015a6e5	comment	The Joy of Painting saw a major Newbie Boom 20 years after its cancellation and the death of its host, Bob Ross, after a wildly successful Twitch marathon of the series in 2015. Both the show and Ross are more famous now than they ever were while the show was airing.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_755b343f	comment	Sci-Fi shooters like Halo and Doom have experienced this cycle. During the '90s and early 2000s, Doom, Halo and their clones were insanely popular among action aficionados for their fast-paced, action-packed gameplay and sci-fi aethetics. However, while neither have been forgotten per se, they declined in popularity from 2005 onwards due to competition from modern military shooters. So much so that Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare dethroned Halo 3 as the most played game on Xbox Live. Overtime though, interest in the sci-fi shooter was rekindled as they offered diverse array of gameplay styles and weapon diversity in fantastical settings. Ironically, many new shooters like Titanfall, Destiny, and even Halo's rival Call of Duty have begun copying Doom and Halo.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_755d1424	comment	LEGO, popular plastic building blocks created in 1949. The toys have always been relatively popular, but in the late '90s/early 2000s, the Lego Company decided to start licensing popular franchises such as Star Wars. Lego suddenly boomed in popularity with video games, fan-made stop motion videos, and in 2014 a highly successful movie. The LEGO fandom has a term specifically for individual fans going through their own popularity polynomial; they love the bricks as a kid, but lose interest in their teens in the "dark ages" before eventually rekindling their interest, sometimes more strongly than before.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Big-budget, theatrical superhero movies have risen and fallen several times. The 1940s and '50s saw Batman, Superman, and The Green Hornet movie serials ride the original comic book boom onto the big screen, but that trend crashed roughly in the late 1940s, bringing about the end of the Golden Age of superhero comics, and superhero movies were relegated to low-budget made-for-TV fare for twenty years (with the odd exception like 1966's Adam West TV spin-off Batman: The Movie). The success of Richard Donner's Superman: The Movie in 1978 revived interest, as did Batman (1989), but each was followed by only one well-received sequel, two poorly-received ones, and a decade each of imitators like Supergirl (1984), Howard the Duck, and The Meteor Man which were generally poorly received by critics and audiences. In 1998, Blade was released and ended up being a Sleeper Hit. Then in the early 2000s, the genre began a slow-building but powerful and long-lasting resurgence with the X-Men and Spider-Man film franchises, the latter setting up the format for further superhero films. By the late 2000s/early 2010s, Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy became critically acclaimed, while Iron Man kick-started Marvel's sprawling Cinematic Universe. By the mid-2010s the DC Extended Universe emerged, while other studios have begun to build their own inter-connected universes.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_7ab10627	comment	Star Trek: The Motion Picture was popular enough that it did financially well at the box office. Despite critics bashing it, Trekkies were glad to have Star Trek back. After Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and especially after Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, fans began to see 1979 Motion Picture in a different light, often jokingly calling it "The Motionless Picture" due to its slow pacing and subdued performances from the cast. The dynamic melodrama and powerful character moments of II, and the refreshing comedy relief humor of IV, were often held up as unfavorable comparisons for The Motion Picture, resulting in it getting thrown in with the other odd-numbered Trek movies as inferior.note This tendency to regard the odd-numbered Trek films as inferior is generally attributed to having started with the fan reaction to Star Trek V. Also, fans learned more about how dissatisfied Robert Wise was with the release. Fans did, in retrospect, also feel that the film was missing something. In the ensuing years, fans were now able to watch several alternate and longer cuts of the film on broadcast TV, Laserdisc, and VHS, resulting in no less than four different cuts. This is where many flaws stood out: too long in some scenes, too many shots of the characters staring at special effects, special effects clearly missing in some shots. The film was on a tight schedule and several effects were truncated to release the film on time. Originally, The Motion Picture was also criticized for appearing to recycle of plot elements from The Changeling and The Doomsday Machine. It was, for a time, remembered mostly for its theme song being reused for Star Trek: The Next Generation. The 2002 Director's Cut sparked a new era of appreciation for Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Certain effects were redone using CGI but strictly in the spirit of what was scripted in 1979. Also, this is now considered one of Jerry Goldsmith's finest soundtracks. Today, instead of being unfairly compared to the more melodramatic and action-packed Trek films that followed, Star Trek: The Motion Picture is compared favorably to 2001: A Space Odyssey, many fans noting that it is the Star Trek film that best represents Gene Roddenberry's vision.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_7b039953	comment	Avatar was released in 2009 after a very long and expensive development to the misgivings of industry commentators who worried that it was just too ambitious to succeed. Instead, it was a massive success that became the highest-grossing movie of all time (a position it would retain for 10 years), received great reviews, and even prompted reports of audiences becoming so invested in the natural beauty of the world of Pandora that they experienced depression over the mere fact that it was fictional! However, despite its colossal success, Avatar developed a reputation in the next decade for being derivative (of the film version of Dances with Wolves, specifically) and clumsily ham-fisted in its otherwise-laudable environmentalist message, and by the middle of the 2010s if anyone talked about Avatar it was to express confusion at how nobody talked about Avatar or disbelief that the biggest movie in the world could leave seemingly "no cultural footprint". Its lead actor Sam Worthington never became a major star, and it was often noted that it had to be seen on a big screen in 3D to be fully appreciated, limiting its appeal on home video and streaming. However, in later years, people started rediscovering Avatar and talking about it favorably again, appreciating its socially conscious message and still-compelling visuals and effects. There are three big reasons. First, Cameron began talking about the planned sequels again, and Disney (following its acquisition of 20th Century Fox) made clear they were committed to bringing them out, even creating a new Avatar-themed land for Disney World. Second, when it became clear that Avengers: Endgame was on track to better its box office record in 2019, both old and new fans alike were inspired to revisit it in its tenth anniversary year. As a matter of fact, it regained its #1 highest-grossing film of all time status in June 2021 after a theatrical rerelease. Finally, as the 2010s wore on and audiences and critics grew increasingly fatigued with the Modular Franchise model of filmmaking that prevailed during that decade, many looked back nostalgically to Avatar as the swan song of a more "old-fashioned" type of blockbuster that told a complete story and crafted a compelling world within the confines of one film, appreciating its status as one of the last blockbusters that became a major success without being part of a franchise. This culminated in the release of Avatar: The Way of Water in 2022, where it cleared $1 billion at the box office in two weeks and $2 billion in one month, defying much doomsaying about it that had been going on ever since the "no cultural footprint" discourse.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek has varied in both popularity and quality, constantly going from being a Cult Classic to being a mainstream phenomenon. Star Trek: The Original Series was moderately popular during its original 1966-69 run, but was cancelled after a low-budgeted third season scheduled on Fridays. The series was later revived as a 22-episode animated series. While the first film received mixed reviews, it did well enough to get another sequel, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, which was widely considered the best film of the franchise and helped create a film series, albeit one of varying quality. Later, another series, Star Trek: The Next Generation was released, and became an iconic show, lasting 176 episodes and seven seasons. The popularity ended up spawning two shows: Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. While both were popular, they never achieved the status of The Next Generation. The franchise hit a low point in the early 2000s, with the box office failure and poor reception of Star Trek: Nemesis and the low ratings, lukewarm reception, and cancellation of Star Trek: Enterprise. However, Star Trek (2009), a reboot of the franchise was a success both critically and commercially, and Star Trek Into Darkness continued the streak, even though it resulted in a Broken Base. Star Trek: Discovery premiered on Paramount+ in 2017, ushering in, as of 2023, five Trek programs currently producing new episodes.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_842c5731	comment	After his last film was heavily panned in 2004, Godzilla received very little public or internet attention. But once footage and trailers for the 2014 reboot started being released in December of 2013, Godzilla started trending very often on social network sites, leading to revived interest in the franchise specifically (hence why many of the films were brought back into circulation after years with no home video releases) and the Kaiju genre in general (hence the sustained interest in Pacific Rim and the Continuity Reboot for Gamera), and a Cloverfield sequel that actually has something to do with Cloverfield.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_87056d17	comment	When Sonic Adventure came out, it was met with mostly positive reception and even became the Killer App for the then dying Sega Dreamcast. Later on, however, reception towards it started to turn sour after numerous ports, leading more and more people to take notice of their archaic and very questionable design decisions. What made things worse is that the content that was originally seen as ambitious and bold then came to be viewed as gimmicky and tryhard (namely things like the Unexpected Gameplay Change and the greater emphasis on plot) which culminated in Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), a game that took everything already considered problematic from Adventure and made it worse. Naturally, Sega would do everything to move away from Adventure and almost anything associated from that time, outside of a nod here and there: Sonic would be the only playable character from that point on, almost every supporting character was Demoted to Extra, and the plots became much more simpler and juvenile. However, fans eventually started to get tired of that direction by the time Sonic Forces came out. Looking back, fans came to the realization that many of the problems with Adventure were mostly prevalent in a lot of 3D games at the time, and that the ideas presented in Adventure weren't inherently bad, just poorly executed, and people have come to enjoy the game because of or in spite of its flaws. The slower-based gameplay segments of the Adventure titles have also become more appreciated in hindsight due to Modern Sonic's controversial "Boost to Win" formula reducing the modern games to "hold forward and A to win". With the advent of remakes making rounds in the late 2010s, namely the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy and Spyro Reignited Trilogy, and Mario and Zelda returning to their early days around the same time, many fans are hoping for a remake of Sonic Adventure (and to a lesser extent, its sequel) to address many of these issues.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_8c1076c1	comment	The televised live musical was inescapable during the '50s, but died out by 1960, with the last one being a remake of Peter Pan. In 2013, NBC decided to put on the first televised live musical in 53 years, in the form of a remake of The Sound of Music starring Carrie Underwood. While it wasn't well received, ratings went through the roof and NBC decided that they would put out such a show annually. Peter Pan Live, their next musical, was met with similar audience response, but 2015's The Wiz Live became a critical darling just in time for another network to try out the live musical — Fox with Grease Live in January 2016. In 2017, ABC announced that they too would give a stab at the formula with a live version of The Little Mermaidnote not to be confused with the non-Disney live action film, or the in-development live-action remake of the Disney film under the Wonderful World of Disney bannernote it was later cancelled, but then uncancelled and finally aired in 2019 — in the same month that Fox announced live versions of RENT and A Christmas Story, and NBC announced Jesus Christ Superstar for Easter Sunday 2018. Unfortunately, the trend suddenly died on January 26, 2019, when RENT Live star Brennin Hunt broke his foot during the dress rehearsal. With no understudies or backup plan, FOX elected to air the never-meant-to-be-seen dress rehearsal footage instead.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_91684031	comment	PokÃ©mon Black and White were considered among the best games in the series upon release, then quickly fell out of favor due to how little they lent themselves to competitive battling and a controversial PokÃ©dex, but then rose back into favor due to the backlash against the next few main games blatantly pandering to nostalgic fans in the expense of new innovations like Black and White attempted.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: Back in the late '90s, the series as a whole was the king of kid fads. However, it quickly faded among people who only played it to be "cool", and in a few short years, the only people who would still publicly admit to liking it were small children (though the games were still system sellers). After the release of PokÃ©mon Diamond and Pearl, it started making a comeback, and the 2016 launch of the PokÃ©mon GO AR game firmly cemented it. Kids can safely admit to liking it in public again, longtime fans are no longer bashed for it, and those kids who were only fans back in the day are now grown-ups old enough to wax nostalgic about it, as seen in the page image. In addition, a Japanese clothing company released a line of PokÃ©-merchandise specifically targeted at adult PokÃ©-fans, with an "artsier" bent to it. However, the above is mostly restricted to the games: while there is not as much hate for the PokÃ©mon anime as around the Johto arc, it still hasn't recovered quite as much as the games did. This also happens for games within the franchise. PokÃ©mon Ruby and Sapphire had their fair share of fans back in the day, but their popularity shrunk pretty rapidly, only to be revitalized years later with their remakes, Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. PokÃ©mon Black and White were considered among the best games in the series upon release, then quickly fell out of favor due to how little they lent themselves to competitive battling and a controversial PokÃ©dex, but then rose back into favor due to the backlash against the next few main games blatantly pandering to nostalgic fans in the expense of new innovations like Black and White attempted.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_a0500a06	comment	While Rugrats thrived in the 1990s, the franchise had hit a snag by the 2000s. The show's quality started to decline after the show returned in 1997 (after a three-year hiatus), and the additions of Dil and Kimi to the cast were unable to breathe any new life into the scripts. While it was still popular to an extent, it had been overstepped by SpongeBob SquarePants and The Fairly OddParents! in popularity, and the third installment in the Rugrats movie franchise flopped, to the point that Nick gave next-to-no promotion (if even that) to the final episodes of the series. Eventually, new management took over at Nickelodeon and got into a dispute with Klasky-Csupo about the expense of their shows, and due to Rugrats not being as big as it was, it was quickly axed and faded into obscurity for the rest of the 2000s, with its sequel series eventually being Screwed by the Network and former fans often denying that they ever saw the series just to keep a shred of credibility. Fast forward to 2011, where Rugrats, alongside Doug and The Ren & Stimpy Show, celebrated their 20th anniversary. Nickelodeon had begun showing reruns of the show early in the morning, and the creation of The 90s Are All That block has led to a new wave of interest. Due to this, the show has been fondly remembered, even included in several different parodies (Robot Chicken did a sketch spoofing how neglectful the parents are) and songs (Childish Gambino's "L.E.S"), as well as airing the show on several different Viacom related networks and blocks.note It even aired on the dying NickMom block on Nick Jr. for a little while. As a result, the show is now remembered fondly, and a full-on reboot of the series premiered on Paramount+ in 2021, nearly 30 years after the original series' premiere, which would become one of Paramount+'s breakout shows, and had a strong linear launch on Nickelodeon, outperforming most of it's competition sans SpongeBob. The tipping point came when Cree Summer, who voices Susie Carmichael, won a NAAC Pimage Award for "Best Voice Acting Performance" in early 2022. It goes without saying that the Rugrats franchise is in much better shape than it was in the mid to late 2000s.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_a0c5dfd1	comment	For years, Everquest was the MMORPG for many people. Eventually, however, World of Warcraft became more popular, and over the years it has had difficulty staying mainstream in an increasingly crowded MMO landscape. Everquest Next renewed interest with many people, especially as it's due for consoles, however it ended up canceled. It still introduced many to the series though.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_ae2f531b	comment	Luke Cage, as discussed in this video by Bob Chipman. Created in The '70s to both diversify the Marvel Comics lineup and cash in on the blaxploitation boom, from The '80s into the '00s he was seen by many comics fans, white and black alike, as a dated relic and a symbol of everything wrong with Marvel's clueless attempts at social commentary during that time. Attempts to revive the character mostly went nowhere outside of guest appearances in Alias, where he was largely shorn of his '70s trappings. His return to popularity and respectability came alongside the broader reappraisal of the blaxploitation genre in the '00s and '10s, with a popular Netflix TV series being the turning point after years of increasingly popular appearances in the comics. Now, he's one of Marvel's headliners, updated for the 21st century but still rooted in his '70s inspirations.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_b493baca	comment	Adult-oriented comedies first took off in the late 1970s and early 1980s, with films like Animal House, The Kentucky Fried Movie, and Porky's pushing major boundaries in terms of what constituted "good taste"note Although, technically, 1972's Pink Flamingos still holds the record for "raunchiest movie ever made", and unlike most European comedies of the era, these had a plot and could be shown at a regular movie house. and becoming hit films in the process. Unfortunately, a saturation of films in the mid-'80s, many of which relied solely on Vulgar Humor rather than witty writing, dissolved the genre just as Ghostbusters (1984) and Back to the Future led family-friendly humor to dominate comedy. During that time, the decidedly tamer comedy of "teen films" like Ferris Bueller's Day Off in the late '80s and some of the works of actors like Paul "Pee-Wee" Reubens, Jim Carrey, Robin Williams, and Adam Sandler became the norm for more mature audiences. However, Clerks became a sleeper hit with its sardonic Gen X-fueled approach to adult humor and the gross-out comedy came back in 1998 when There's Something About Mary became a surprise critical and commercial hit. The genre thrived for the next three or four years with such box-office bonanzas as American Pie and Scary Movie. While the new wave's over-emphasis on high school- and college-centered comedy (what with the audience for such movies moving on to adulthood), The Simpsons' brand of humor influencing family films like Shrek and the popularity of the risquÃ© sitcoms of Chuck Lorre threatened to dissolve the genre yet again, the films of Judd Apatow, starting with the 2005 hit The 40-Year-Old Virgin, proved that such films could be just as popular with adults as with teenagers, even pre-teens, leading to a "golden age of the raunchy comedy" that peaked around 2007-2009. However, the genre fell apart around 2010 as some of its more common tropes began to attract negative attention, including some of the language used. The most successful "adult" comedy of the early '10s became 2012's Ted, and even its 2015 sequel tanked. However, by the latter part of the decade, films like Daddy's Home, Deadpool, Sausage Party, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates and Bad Moms (a Deconstructive Parody of the "chick-flick" subgenre popular during the early '10s) have successfully pushed the envelope by resorting on less juvenile humor.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_b4967d43	comment	The Sonic the Hedgehog series has gone on a wild roller coaster of this: When it came out, it immediately became one of the definitive games of The 16-bit Era and put the Sega Genesis into a fierce competition with Nintendo. During the time of the Sega Saturn, his popularity dipped because the series was strangely on main series hiatus, only existing through spinoffs such as Sonic R and an enhanced remake of Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island. Come the Sega Dreamcast, Sonic regained the spotlight with the leap to 3D, with Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2 was wildly popular and highly acclaimed, but subsequent games would take their flaws, such as dodgy camera and controls and Gameplay Roulette, and cause the series to slowly slide into a bad reputation for its flawed 3D games and an annoying fanbase. This was exacerbated by the over-the-top Darker and Edgier Shadow the Hedgehog, the infamous Obvious Beta Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) and the shameful Porting Disaster of the original game, causing the series to fall into infamy. After Sonic Unleashed introduced a new well-received style of play, with Sonic Colors and Sonic Generations refining it and removing any poorly received alternate gameplay styles, Sonic's popularity increased even more to the point of appearing in a movie. Then after that, the series' popularity dipped once again, with Sonic Lost World getting a mixed reception for its jarringly different gameplay and collection of other highly experimental play styles after the well-received boost games, and then even more so with the ill-fated Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric. Even though the latter was part of a spin-off sub-franchise whose 3DS entries were less negatively received, the industry as a whole started to trash Sonic as being a relic of the 16-bit era. The 25th anniversary duo of Sonic Mania and Sonic Forces has seen mixed results; while Mania has gotten an overwhelmingly positive response for recreating everything loved about the classic games, Forces has seen a very mixed response towards its level design, story, and use of three playstyles. The 2020 Hollywood film adaptation brought the series back to general mainstream light, which it hasn't been in since the '90s. When Sonic Adventure came out, it was met with mostly positive reception and even became the Killer App for the then dying Sega Dreamcast. Later on, however, reception towards it started to turn sour after numerous ports, leading more and more people to take notice of their archaic and very questionable design decisions. What made things worse is that the content that was originally seen as ambitious and bold then came to be viewed as gimmicky and tryhard (namely things like the Unexpected Gameplay Change and the greater emphasis on plot) which culminated in Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), a game that took everything already considered problematic from Adventure and made it worse. Naturally, Sega would do everything to move away from Adventure and almost anything associated from that time, outside of a nod here and there: Sonic would be the only playable character from that point on, almost every supporting character was Demoted to Extra, and the plots became much more simpler and juvenile. However, fans eventually started to get tired of that direction by the time Sonic Forces came out. Looking back, fans came to the realization that many of the problems with Adventure were mostly prevalent in a lot of 3D games at the time, and that the ideas presented in Adventure weren't inherently bad, just poorly executed, and people have come to enjoy the game because of or in spite of its flaws. The slower-based gameplay segments of the Adventure titles have also become more appreciated in hindsight due to Modern Sonic's controversial "Boost to Win" formula reducing the modern games to "hold forward and A to win". With the advent of remakes making rounds in the late 2010s, namely the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy and Spyro Reignited Trilogy, and Mario and Zelda returning to their early days around the same time, many fans are hoping for a remake of Sonic Adventure (and to a lesser extent, its sequel) to address many of these issues.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_b5929672	comment	Mime. Yes, mime. It was considered a great source of entertainment about a century ago, when it contributed so much of the humor in vaudeville, the circus, and (of course) silent movies. Then "talkies" came along in the late 1920s, and suddenly mime comedy was a joke (as depicted in Singin' in the Rain and elsewhere). There were a few holdouts, of course - Charlie Chaplin, Harpo Marx, cartoon characters like Pluto who couldn't talk - but they were the exception, as most people in the 1930s and '40s preferred to be entertained by characters who said funny things rather than acting out funny things. Then Marcel Marceau came along in the 1950s and breathed new life into the art form, even elevating it to the level of high culture...which unfortunately ultimately backfired, as Marceau inspired a glut of amateurish imitators in the decades immediately following who once again cheapened the image of mime, even giving us the current Everyone Hates Mimes trope. Yet mime has never truly died: Countless performers who are not even often thought of as mimes, such as Rowan Atkinson (as Mr. Bean), John Belushi, and Jim Carrey, have proudly carried the tradition into the late twentieth century and beyond. Circus companies such as Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey and the Big Apple Circus also have given miming and clowning more attention in the following decades (in part a side effect of wild animal-based acts falling out of favor with modern audiences), and Cirque du Soleil and other "contemporary circus" companies pivot upon performers who can engage audiences with few or no words at all.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_ba084d45	comment	Hamilton underwent (an admittedly downplayed version of) this remarkably quickly: Upon its premiere in late 2015, it received thunderous acclaim and it soon became almost impossible to get tickets for the musical, which rapidly became a cultural touchstone of the millennial generation. By 2019 however, interest in the play suddenly began to wane, partly because it was deemed to be too "gentle" for a cultural landscape that was adopting a more confrontational tone, but also because some considered the musical was whitewashing slaveowners. When several videos mocking both Hamilton and its playwright, Lin-Manuel Miranda, as rather "dorky" appeared on TikTok during the winter and early spring of 2020, some considered these take-offs to be quite affectionate, but others saw these as a piss-take amid a possible generational rift between "zoomers" and "millennials", as pointed out by Rolling Stone in an article. Nevertheless, the release of the musical on Disney+note Pre-pandemic, it was supposed to be released theatrically in 2021 and the election of Joe Biden allowing the cultural landscape to move closer to the one of the mid-late 2010s later that year led to renewed interest.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_c19c6efa	comment	Minecraft was a one-man project that rapidly gained massive traction, its popularity peaking by 2012-13 and becoming a massive viral hit. However, the game's fame eventually grew enough to the point where gradually more people were stating It's Popular, Now It Sucks!, and by the time Notch dumped it in Microsoft's hands, the game's popularity was declining; and by 2016-17, it had sunken to a memetic punching bag that was mocked relentlessly by the internet (although primarily due to its rabid fanbase, rather than the actual quality of the game declining). However, in light of Microsoft's warmer connections to Nintendo culminating in the introduction of crossplay between the two (even a little with Sony), its still growing amount of ports, and the rise of Battle Royale Games (which simultaneously brought attention back to Minecraft due to servers hosting Battle Royale custom games, and led to much of the child fanbase responsible for most of the ridicule switching over to Fortnite), Minecraft came back with a vengeance in 2019, still receiving numerous updates, its player character becoming a DLC fighter in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and even announcing a film adaptation. While it is not as astronomically popular as it was back in its first years, it is certainly slowly climbing back up and it finally became the best-selling video game of all time in May. Not that its popularity during its supposed "slump" was anything to scoff at, as it was accounted that 91 million users were playing the game monthly in mid-2018. note compare it to Dota 2 's highest monthly player count of roughly 11 million in 2016, and Fortnite's highest monthly player count of 78 million, also in mid-2018. And note that Dota 2 and Fortnite are both free-to-play games, while Minecraft is paid.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_c29f1036	comment	When it was released in 1998, The Prince of Egypt was a major hit, earning very positive reviews and becoming the most financially successful non-Disney animated feature at the time. Shortly afterwards, however, it faded into obscurity and was rarely talked about. Then it was rediscovered in the late 2000s and returned to prominence seemingly overnight, being regarded as one of the best Biblical movies ever made and even getting a West End stage musical adaptation in 2020.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_c3210502	comment	Hulk Hogan. At the height of his popularity in 1985, he hosted Saturday Night Live and was on the cover of Sports Illustrated. By the time 1994 rolled around (thanks to a combination of confirmed allegations of steroid use, a worn out gimmick that seemed stuck in the '80s — partially for the previous reason, and a rather disastrous movie career), he was seen as a self-parody whose shelf life was such that he needed to ditch the hero routine altogether just to remain relevant. However, in 2002, his return to WrestleMania — still in his villain persona — resulted in the fans cheering him over the Rock. To this day, he and the Rock are among the closest things the WWE has produced to A-list celebrities.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_c40207f9	comment	Duke Nukem Forever has gone through this cycle twice already. It was highly anticipated in the late '90s, became nothing more than a punchline to any joke about vaporware or Schedule Slip during the 2000s, and then became legitimately anticipated again when it was finally released in 2011. Unfortunately, this, combined with Two Decades Behind, is also a major reason why it received such a lukewarm reaction. Critics pointed out that, after 15 years in development, its style of gameplay and presentation didn't hold up well against the landscape of modern shooters.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: Although easy to forget now that it's a massive media juggernaut seemingly beloved by all, the show was considered a joke in the years between the mid '80s and 2005. It had been a very popular show at its height in the '70s, but during its '80s Audience-Alienating Era and after its cancellation in 1989 it was, at best, a Cult Classic, and at worst, something for people to sneer at and assert that, no, they never watched if they wanted to maintain a shred of credibility. Then Russell T. Davies and Christopher Eccleston came along, and suddenly everything changed. The show not only became a huge success in Britain and returned to omnipresence in pop culture, but for the first time it managed to cross The Pond and establish a substantial international fanbase, with Doctor Who merchandise sold in mainstream American music/video stores. Case in point: this article from the Rotten Library, written in 2005 just as Doctor Who was returning to television, exemplifies the dismissive attitudes (in this case, from an American perspective) that many people had towards the show at the time, ending with a joke about looking for "New Who" on struggling PBS stations in between pledge drives. It would be unimaginable for that same article to be written today.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_d22a9a66	comment	When it premiered in 2005, Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf got unexpectedly high ratings and became an instant hit with children. Once some time passed, it started to get a bit of a bad rep due to both an incident where real-life kids imitating the show hurt their friend and the show's seasons becoming experimental and not hitting the same way previous ones did; War of Invention in particular was criticized by fans for its writing and art styles enough to make Creative Power Entertaining revert to the initial styles in the next season. In 2019, Mighty Little Defenders blew people's expectations out of the water with its storyline being considered one of the most exciting in years, and it brought back a lot of fans who had since left the Pleasant Goat fanbase; it's been doing well for itself since then with its story-based seasons and is now a well-respected show again.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_d3836a29	comment	MD Geist is a bizarre example of this phenomenon. Part of the initial North American anime boom, MD Geist was successful when it was brought to North America, largely due to the efforts of Central Park Media president John O'Donnel, who loved and promoted it to a ridiculous level. In part due to this overexposure, it was hated by vocal Otakus and acquired a reputation as the "worst anime ever" after its commercial success faded. This changed in the late 2000s when the OVA was shown on Sci Fi Channel's Ani Monday block, due to a combination of a growing backlash against certain trends such as Moe and being nowhere near as bad as advertised. While few people would argue MD Geist is good art, it is now largely seen as enjoyable rather than being garbage, and several articles have been written arguing against its reputation as the "worst anime".
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Popularity Polynomial / int_d461a59f	comment	For 25 years or so after it first aired, Battlestar Galactica (1978) was regarded as being a pretty solid show considering the time period when it was produced, being even more popular than Star Wars during The '90s. Then during the 2000s, following the launch of the reimagined series, people tended to dismiss it as being just silly, campy fluff that wasted the potential of its concept. In the years since the finale of the reimagined series however, people have started to warm up to the original again, for at least being fun to watch and not having a storyline which collapsed in on itself (it helps that it's much easier to ignore Galactica 1980 than it is to ignore the latter few seasons of the reimagined series).
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Popularity Polynomial / int_d46cc708	comment	The page's quote source is from an in-universe example of Ed, Edd n Eddy, where, in "It's Way Ed", after falling behind on the latest fads, Double D tries cheering Eddy up by pointing out that fads go in a cycle and that they'd be back in style in ten years. That episode aired in 1999, and, sure enough, ten years later, the Eds become popular in-universe with the kids at the end of the The Movie Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show. As for the real-world, the popularity of the show resurged in meme culture in 2018 and 2019, thanks to fans discovering the sound library for the show's uniquely bizarre sound effects and the show's composer releasing some of the soundtrack, spawning a trend of humorous "[X], but Ed, Edd n' Eddy" videos.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	Like the games, PokÃ©mon: The Series has been hit with this several times. It was a worldwide phenomenon during its heyday Kanto days but by late Johto much of the fans had moved on. The fad days were ending and much of the original demographic began moving onto other series, especially after Misty left. PokÃ©mon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire had its fans but the anime wasn't nearly as popular as it once was. However, a lot of the Periphery Demographic (who were the target demographic during the fad) got into the anime again with PokÃ©mon the Series: Diamond and Pearl thanks to them getting into the games again at that same period. This popularity kept for all of Gen 4 until PokÃ©mon the Series: Black & White killed it again. Early on fans watched it, especially because of Team Rocket's new demeanor, however they soon waned, especially after an executive-mandated retool. The PokÃ©mon the Series: XY series brought back a huge amount of fans, either because the episode quality seemed to improve or because they enjoyed shipping Serena with Ash. The ending to the arc was very controversial, however, and the goofy tone of the next PokÃ©mon the Series: Sun & Moon arc didn't help, causing the fanbase to once again fall by the wayside, but that was alleviated with more serious and emotional plots with subjects like death, the return of Misty & Brock, and Ash finally winning the PokÃ©mon League. The PokÃ©mon Journeys: The Series is well-liked for its more unique premise of going through all regions rather than just Galar, and the PokÃ©mon Ash catching being completely unexpected. It also happens to be the last series featuring Ash and consequently, the series goes full nostalgia appeal to the anime fans of all generations since 1997.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_d5ea1c25	comment	The 1978 film The Deer Hunter won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Michael Cimino, and was acclaimed as one of the first great movies about The Vietnam War and the impact it had on the people who fought in it. Then Cimino went and sank an entire studio (as well as his career) with his follow-up, the critically ravaged Box Office Bomb Heaven's Gate. The backlash against Cimino in the wake of Heaven's Gate was so severe that it stained the reputation of The Deer Hunter for quite some time. There was a period of time in the early-mid '80s when it was uncool in film critic circles to like that film, as many critics tried to explain how they'd been "suckered in" by Cimino. The more charitable said that he'd made a Deal with the Devil for its success, while others suggested that it was never any good in the first place and was popular more for its subject matter than anything. As the debacle of Heaven's Gate fell further into the past, however, The Deer Hunter eventually regained its reputation as one of the great Vietnam War movies. While there remains a minority of critics (most notably Mark Kermode) who still hate the film, many others have since reevaluated their negative positions on it, and it was added to the Library of Congress in 1996 and made AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies list in both 1998 and 2007 (actually climbing 26 spots on the latter list). Helping its reputation further is the fact that Heaven's Gate has itself come in for reappraisal over the years, especially after the director's cut premiered in 2012 at the Venice Film Festival, with critics who only knew the film from its 1981 theatrical cut being surprised at how good it was and arguing that its re-edit after poor press screenings had obscured a genuinely great film.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy had been immensely successful during the 2000s, but its popularity started to dip by the early 2010s, especially after the infamous "Life of Brian" stunt, and the subsequent Season 12 was heavily criticized by viewers becoming disillusioned with the show becoming more and more mean-spirited and vulgar, with the characters becoming increasingly amoral and flanderized while shock and profanity-laced humor were amped up, as did the shows' ham-fisted political commentary. The show's reputational decline soon led audiences to avoid anything with Seth MacFarlane's name on it, affecting the box office performances of A Million Ways to Die in the West and Ted 2, as well as eventually leading to the cancellation of The Cleveland Show and the Channel Hop of American Dad!. Despite still being in production, Family Guy had faded off into irrelevancy by the middle of the decade, and it was sparsely talked about in discussions surrounding adult animated shows. By the end of the decade, Family Guy started to garner attention again in time for its 20th anniversary, thanks to the show becoming a Fountain of Memes, the show's writers toning down its most heavily-criticized aspects (toning down the sophomoric humor, making characters more sympathetic, having a heavier focus on plots, and making a few callbacks to earlier seasons, as well as downplaying the most divisive changes), and MacFarlane gaining a newfound respect by launching a part-time musical career. This in turn made people revisit the series, gaining nostalgia for episodes made in the 2000s and early 2010s, and giving it critical acclaim for its off-the-wall zaniness and biting social commentary. The show's popularity bounce was confirmed by the end of 2020, when it was revealed that Family Guy was the most-watched show on Hulu. While not as huge as it was back in its heyday, Family Guy is in a much more steady place now, compared to where it was in the mid-2010s, and especially compared to the two other long running adult animated shows.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_eef69f10	comment	The Sherlock Holmes stories have been famous among the public ever since Arthur Conan Doyle first published them in The Strand. While there was not really a time when nobody admitted to liking them, there were times when few people could take them seriously, and parodies (affectionate or otherwise) dominated the discussion of Holmes as a character. The latest wave of Sherlock Holmes "consciousness" is at least in part attributable to Sherlock and Elementary, a pair of TV shows that both "update" the stories and characters by setting them in the present day instead of the stuffy, foggy Victorian setting that has been parodied to death, as well as the Guy Ritchie/Robert Downey Jr. film adaptations, which kept the Victorian setting but gave the stories a contemporary-feeling action movie makeover.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_f0688fff	comment	PokÃ©mon Ruby and Sapphire had their fair share of fans back in the day, but their popularity shrunk pretty rapidly, only to be revitalized years later with their remakes, Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_f0a86c12	comment	In-universe example from How I Met Your Mother: Marshall and Ted take a long drive with just one song to listen to, "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)". In alternating hours, they either hate it or love it (though unlike in a standard example, the moments of high "popularity" don't follow the thing's absence, but rather that it has managed to sink in).
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Popularity Polynomial / int_f11c7ff2	comment	The classic Universal monster movies were certainly big hits in the 1930s and early '40s, but after the release of The Wolf Man (1941), they fell into an Audience-Alienating Era that would last the rest of The '40s and well into The '50s, with only a few bright spots (Creature from the Black Lagoon, It Came from Outer Space) as Universal struggled to adapt to the postwar boom of sci-fi horror. Then, in 1957, Universal released a large number of its classic horror films in a television package called Shock! Theater. Shock! introduced the films to a new audience that could view them from the comfort of their homes, with the lovably campy assistance of various local Horror Hosts, kicking off a "Monster Boom" craze that lasted well into The '70s and saw the monsters reach the height of their popularity and cultural presence. Hammer Film Productions came along at almost the same time to produce lurid color remakes of the classic films, ensuring the monsters' legacies would live on and restoring glamour to the horror genre, which by that point had devolved into B-Movie hell. To this day, even as new monsters, villains, and subgenres have risen to prominence, the Universal monsters are regarded as icons of the horror genre, with most takes on the basic monsters (vampires and werewolves especially) still referring back to films made during The Golden Age of Hollywood, even if only to show themselves to be different from the 'Hollywood' version.
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Popularity Polynomial / int_ff66c30e	comment	The Muppets: It may not be obvious to today's viewers, but the original film The Muppet Movie had any number of cameos from people who were, at the time, huge stars, and The Muppet Show guest stars were frequently leading lights either as actors or singers (or both) as well. They have made a huge comeback, now that the media industry is full of influential producers and talents who grew up on their show and still love them. There's no shortage of celebrities who want to perform with them, as their 2011 film demonstrates.
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