I can't believe I just realized how fickle Pop culture is...
By N.B. Yomi
@Hanyouyomi (2186)
Dallas, Texas
July 30, 2016 1:37am CST
So I was mulling over my frustration with how Marvel and DC unneccesarily keep introducing new black heroes. Because they have a plethura of heroes in the African ethnic group that are still unknown to the general public. And after Marvel made Guardians Of The Galaxy go from an obscure comic series that only hardcore geeks like me knew about to a smash hit film, they have no excuse. Then I thought about Blade. Blade for those of you that don't know is a Marvel Comics anti-hero's a vampire/human hybrid known as a "Dhampir" who hunts vampires. Blade in the late 90s and early 2000s had three films, two of which were box office hit action films. Now around the time these films came out, you had several people that were fans of them. Nowadays, you bring up Blade and only comic-book geeks will know who you're talking about.
And I've seen this in the anime community oo where whenever an anime like Bleach, Parasyte The Maxim, Watamote, or Akame Ga Kill has ended, they have their fandoms sure. But everyone else moves on to the next big hyped anime...
I mean, I get we have to move on and not cling to the past, but this isn't that. These people either don't know or literally forget everything that's come before. But I guess that's why it's so easy for media enterprises to sell them on the same thing with a different name and face.
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@Hanyouyomi (2186)
• Dallas, Texas
30 Jul 16
@anamika161088 Nah, this isn't a matter of supply and a demand. Because that doesn't explain how people outright forget previous fads whenever a new one comes along. A better example I could've used is boybands. When I was 12 years old you had N Sync and The BackStreet Boys. Then came The Jonas Brothers, as N Sync and BackStreet for forgotten about, then came Justin Beiber when they fizzled out and One Direction shortly there after. Now No one talks about One-Direction anymore, whereas at least a year ago, fans and haters alike wouldn't shut up about them... It's the same with the Jonas Brothers after Beiber got big. Again it seemed like people outright forgot about the previous bands that had come before.
And there's a different scenario like with some comic-book films. Back when at least the first two X-men films Bryan Singer directed and the first two Spiderman films Sam Rami directed came out, comic-book geeks were singing their praises. Now in this post Avengers and Marvel Cinematic Universe era, geeks are saying how those movies suck, and apparently always have. Like what?!
@TigerMask81 (91)
• Lubbock, Texas
31 Jul 16
@Hanyouyomi I agree with it not being a supply and demand thing. Maybe the comic book movies are but there more aimed none hardcore comic fans. It's more a "bandwagon jumper" thing. "Oh new shine thing of the week, I must get in on this."
Hardcore fans are way to critical about any thing that goes against there norm and the casual/new fan and bandwagon jumpers are to eager and will jump all over it and push it to the moon until something new and shine comes out.
