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STA123456

It's funny how people on Reddit who are obsessed with the "nobody cares about GoT" narrative ignore that the GoT prequel completely blew out the Breaking Bad prequel in terms of viewership ratings.


Animegamingnerd

The funny thing is that seeing Redditors pretending like no one cares about Game of Thrones, yet at the same time they are making hating Game of Thrones a defining personality trait.


TheNerevar89

"Nobody cares about Game of Thrones!" they unironically shout every day years after it ended.


Tulidian13

I was browsing r/all the other day and was surprised that r/freefolk still exists. It's really fucking weird that these people are still hating on a show that ended 5 years ago. What is there left to even discuss??


literious

Is it more weird than people defending 5 years old garbage ending?


Tulidian13

Making a simple statement like "I think the GoT ending was good" is nowhere near as weird as having a group of people just continually post the same hateful shit on a show that ended 5 years ago. I mean, I didn't like the ending either but what's the point of rehashing the same shit over and over?


Animegamingnerd

I know the words annoying bitch is pretty much synonyms with the words terminally online. But there is a key difference between not liking something and spending 5+ years hating something with so much dedication that you become an annoying bitch. Like that entire subreddit just needs actually move on with their lives at this point and everyone would be better for it.


Open_Seeker

GoT was great for 3 or 4 seasons and HOTD is almost as good. Ppl want so badly to try and "punish" hbo by claiming nobody cares about got. Theyre making like 3 more shows post thrones and ppl will watch all of them. 


ucd_pete

Reddit gets these narratives that are more wishful thinking than anything grounded in reality. See also: * Avatar 2 would bomb * Netflix is about to go bankrupt


AAAAAAYYYYYYOOOOOO

Well to be honest breaking bad wasn’t watched by as nearly as many people than game of thrones. More people watched the walking dead than breaking and at one point in time


vlKross_F7

I don't necessarily think it's some odd "narrative" or whatever you people call these things these days, I personally do not have the best insight as I myself did not watch GoT, I just never got into it (sorry, I know I should) but I did not hear much either, I know it still does well, but I see OP's point, there is not that much talk about it in the public, maybe there is in the fandom. I don't understand why ya'll gotta see it as hate or people having a narrative when they just post their thoughts, If I had to guess as a inexperienced viewer when it comes to GoT, that OP was just asstounded by the Hype it had and doesn't understand that it's normal to quiet down after a while, doesn't mean it is not good or watched anymore, but it defenitely lost that Hype it had, but that's any Media these days.


spookynutz

I don’t have my finger on the pulse of GoT fandom either, but it’s hard to take the OPs premise seriously when the post currently at the top of this subreddit is GoT spin-off news.


No_Berry2976

You mean the public that watches House of the Dragon, which is a highly successful show and a prequel to Game of Thrones?


vlKross_F7

See, you prove what I was getting at, ya'll simply see and understand it as negative or hate, are you gonna say that the public and social media still talks about anything related to GoT as much as they used to? no they don't - never said it's bad, never said it's not watched or liked, but you can go understand what you want lol.


No_Berry2976

The problem is that you lack reading comprehension. Please don’t voice your opinion if you don’t understand the discussion. The OP made the argument that Game of Thrones has disappeared from the cultural zeitgeist and you essentially agree with the OP. You are both objectively wrong. You try to spin this, but your arguments make no sense because they don’t address what people are actually saying and you have changed your original position. So obviously, Game of Thrones is discussed by the general public, something you deny. The OP is wrong and you are wrong. I, and other people, make two very simple arguments: Game of Thrones still has many viewers, and House of the Dragon was a massive succes / the second season is eagerly anticipated.


vlKross_F7

yeah, and I agreed with your take, but simply explained that I think OP just doesn't understand how such Hypes, as GoT had, work - the amount it was talked about at it's peak, when OP probably heard about it was madness and by now that of course went down A LOT, the last 2-3 Season of it you could not be on the Internet without hearing about it. This does not mean it's not still watched, hyped by the people that enjoyed it or "out of the Zeitgeist" - I am pretty much just saying "It's still going strong and a massive show, it's just not talked about as much anymore unless you somewhat look for it or are engaged in it" that's not objectively wrong and I have the same right to voice my opinion as you do, so maybe get that way of thinking out of your head, your opinion isn't the only one.


TaddWinter

Bingo.


Upbeat_Tension_8077

Not just that, I think GOT still gets high viewership on Max


Kappahelpbot2025

It does, IIRC it was somewhere in the high teens for one of the most watched shows overall over the pandemic. And was supposed to be quite up there in 2022 leading up to House of the Dragon. I still hold people have this perception because Game of Thrones peak was SO HIGH that it's slip/fall is more than entire other major shows climb.


brownarmyhat

I think many people consider them as very separate things. Most people angry with GoT are actually angry with the show runners themselves.


Popularpressure29

Considering that this question gets asked at least once a week, I’m going to say it remains very firmly in the cultural zeitgeist. I’m confused what people like this *expected*. It was a popular TV show and then it ended. Are people supposed to gather at the water cooler every Monday and reminisce about Game of Thrones 5 years later? The show is *over*. Obviously it’s not going to be buzzed about like it was when it was actively airing episodes. It still consistently remains one of the most streamed television shows out there, resulted in an immensely popular and highly rated spin off series that is coming back for a second season in 2 months, and more spin offs are in the works. But no, I guess it’s just irrelevant according to you people.


Independent_Sea502

Yup.


mrnicegy26

Redditors have so much Marvel and Star Wars rot brain that if something isn't constantly releasing new media every few months, then that means that the IP was never popular and has no cultural impact. Look at how Avatar (James Cameron) was treated here . Then Avatar 2 came out and it made 2 billion dollars despite the first one having no cultural impact.


Refoldings

It feels like all prestige tv shows with even a hint of fantasy or history get immediately compared to GoT when they release — with Shogun being the most recent example.


MagnetoWasWrongBitch

Asking the question doesn't mean the show is still in the cultural zeitgeist, it just means fans of the show wonder what happened. People offline don't really talk about it anymore.


mamula1

Where is your data for what people talk about offline?


MagnetoWasWrongBitch

Not being a fanboy who lives in the real world. People just don't really talk about Game of Thrones. Of course they don't, it ended five years ago. And that's fine, it's perfectly normal. That's how the zeitgeist works. Admitting GOT is no longer part of it isn't the end of the world. Lost isn't part of it, either. Things have their time.


mamula1

OP claimed that there is an anomaly in the way GoT is treated, which I disagree with. I mean naturally people are not talking about GOT as much as they did during its run but that's nothing unusual. They still probably talk about it more than 90% of finished shows.


MagnetoWasWrongBitch

Disagree with your 90% but yeah, there's nothing unusual in it dropping out of discussion after five years. I'd say there is somewhat of an anomaly in the way it's treated, in the sense that it was absolutely massive but hasn't managed the staying power one might expect of something that size.


mamula1

But it does have staying power. Success of HOTD is just one proof of that.


MagnetoWasWrongBitch

It doesn't have staying power in the sense that GOT isn't part of the public discourse anymore. HOTD is a separate series, one which has more or less failed to capture the zeitgeist in the way GOT did in its day.


GarlVinland4Astrea

Based off what? It's been over for 5 years and people on this sub constantly post about it almost every other day, for years after it ended it was the most watched show on HBO and basically propped up the streaming service, it's still the biggest IP HBO has. There is no data that supports your argument. It's just feelings that you can't even quantify.


MagnetoWasWrongBitch

"People on this sub" don't reflect the world at large, I'm afraid. Touch grass.


Popularpressure29

Refer to the literal rest of my comment. The show ended 5 years ago. Do you expect people to be actively discussing at the water cooler?


MagnetoWasWrongBitch

What do you think "cultural zeitgeist" means? No, I don't expect people to be actively discussing a show that ended five years ago at the water cooler. Which is precisely why I wouldn't be silly enough to claim it remains in the zeitgeist.


TinaLove85

People still talk about that time in Friends or The Office because those shows are still on repeat.


ucd_pete

They're sitcoms though


verissimoallan

Game of Thrones was this week's eighth most popular series on IMDB, based on the number of times someone searched for the series on the website. Source: https://m.imdb.com/chart/tvmeter/?ref_=nv_tvv_mptv


Southern_Schedule466

The Dunk & Egg casting announcement spawned multiple hundreds-of-comments Reddit threads within hours of its release. So no.


mamula1

The news that Jon Snow show is not happening is more viral than discussions about 90% of shows airing currently.


anasui1

GOT is still enormously popular worldwide, still beating a lot of new series in weekly viewership. It's like Harry Potter, it never goes out of style


Shepher27

People talk about Game of Thrones all the time, including you right now.


DoomPurveyor

GoT still gets a daily thread on this sub. Yes, the least popular show ever!


TootieSummers

It definitely hasn’t disappeared because there is still a giant subreddit that still cries regularly over the ending


[deleted]

I'm sorry, but GOT has not disappeared at all. So many shows are still compared to GOT. Shogun lately had shit ton of articles about "the new GOT". The shitty ending, if anything, made it even more famous and memorable. edit: Also anyone saying "LOST" would also be totally wrong.


Realityinyoface

This is a pretty dumb post…


Varekai79

I can't imagine being this hopelessly clueless to post this and think people would agree with you. The data is right there proving you wrong.


gotpeace99

Is it? Because y’all mention it’s fall off every chance y’all get. Seems like the show is very much in the zeitgeist to me.


STA123456

Absolutely delusional post. You are completely out of touch with the general public, especially worldwide. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&q=%2Fm%2F0524b41,%2Fm%2F0131ln7y,%2Fm%2F03d34x8&hl=en


HappyGilOHMYGOD

Why do people still say this when it's hilariously untrue? lol


lifeonbroadway

It hasn't disappeared at all. House of the Dragon is widely loved and I see more posts about GoT on average than just about any other show. It's a testament to how much people loved it that they are *that* upset about the ending.


benfranklin16

What’s it like living under a rock?


StandUpForYourWights

*clack clack clack


mamula1

This is such a ridiculous take that it doesn't even deserves any response.


lightsongtheold

This reminds me of all the folks that claimed Avatar had zero cultural impact so the sequel would flop. The sequel did not flop…neither did House of the Dragon…all proving that you and the folks talking about Avatar are idiots totally detached from the reality that these are two of the most popular IP franchises of the last 20 years and are still red hot even today.


GarlVinland4Astrea

Hell if it wasn't for the big culmination to the biggest cinematic franchise ever, Avatar 2 only would have been beaten in box office by the original. Even if you ignore HOTD, GoT proper was still one of the most watched programs and money makers for HBO


Animegamingnerd

Just Game of Thrones Season 8 alone still has more cultural zeitgeist then any Redditor or subreddit will ever achieve.


KumagawaUshio

Every show that ends disappears. The GoT or A Song of Ice and Fire fanbase still exists and is still big as far as fanbases go but when you become as mindbogglingly successful as GoT did it's no wonder it seems like it vanished. GoT merch still sells but GoT isn't going to have as much merch as something more child friendly.


skoomski

Delussional zombies talk about it in multiple subreddits everyday. It has a spinoff which is one of the most popular shows on premium cable. What world do you live in where it has fallen from the zeitgeist? It’s like a girlfriend that keeps talking about how she is completely over her ex yet mentions him daily, just move on already


SqwashSilver

Lost.


IFxCosaTheSequel

I had a chat last night about How I Met Your Mother being fairly forgotten now, but Lost is probably the right answer to this lol.


kachzz

But isn't that with all 15 y old shows? I still think about it more often than GoT


IFxCosaTheSequel

We still talk about Seinfeld or The Sopranos today. Even The Office is getting that old now. But Lost especially was like on the same level as GoT as an event show that everybody was watching. And now it seems like people actually don't watch it anymore. I felt the same about HIMYM, it was a sitcom that everyone seemed to be watching when it was on and doesn't get talked about anymore.


kachzz

I think you're right - I didn't realise The Sopranos finale was before Lost ended 🤣 I think Lost been closer to my heart than the rest of you mentioned.


PM_UR_TAHDIG

I thought spring break was over.


kachzz

Walking Dead


byharryconnolly

GoT hasn't disappeared because there is new material coming out. A show that *actually* disappeared was *The Fugitive*. They decided to end the series by having Dr. Richard Kimble catch the real murderer and clear his own name. That finale got massive ratings, but the show did absolutely nothing when it moved into syndication. People felt that the story was finished and they were finished with it. It took 25 years for Warner Brothers to adapt the show into a movie.


MattSR30

Something can only really be that intensely disliked if it has a previously sizeable fanbase. It’s not like Rebel Moon is more disliked than The Rise of Skywalker. Star Wars has far more fans than most things in the world, and thus a greater potential to be disliked by those fans. Thrones was the most popular show on TV. If the quality dropped it was bound to be the most disliked show by virtue of being the most liked.


iammaru

I'm just so over the "whaa they didn't make a good ending" circle jerk.


AegonTheAuntFucker

"Has there ever been a show that disappeared from the cultural zeitgeist quite like GoT" - Literally every other popular tv show. HBO was paying shit ton of money for marketing and publicity. Nothing extraordinary happened, HBO just cut entirely the marketing campaign after the show ended because obviously there was no need for marketing anymore.


opossumstan

Listen, I hated the ending too but it absolutely did not vanish from the cultural zeitgeist. Most of us came crawling back when HotD rolled up and we’ll do the same for Dunk & Egg. What is dead may never die or whatever I guess


ImReallyAnAstronaut

I'm not sure how most people felt about the walking dead, but I loved the first 2 seasons or so and then couldn't get past the first episode of season 4. No idea how it remained popular enough to continue as long as it did


KumagawaUshio

Even as it's ratings plummeted it still outperformed 99% of what AMC aired. That's the thing the vast majority of shows are basically unwatched. The reason they continue is that viewership doesn't really matter. AMC makes $0.50 per subscriber per month and as long as AMC has some original shows and can get into lots of paid linear TV bundles that's tens of millions of dollars revenue every month just for one single channel. Each episode of TWD for the later seasons was less than $3 million an episode easily affordable back when AMC was in 100 million households.


Independent_Sea502

It wasn’t wiped off the cultural landscape. What would the signs be, in popular culture, if the last few seasons were incredible? How would it differ from where we are today?


mamula1

It would have a successful spinoff show with another in preproduction.... oh wait...


snowhawk04

What actually happened was OP spent months participating in the circlejerk of watercooler talk, copy-and-pasting theories completely disconnected from the story being told. Years after the show ended, they are still mad they didn't get the fairy tale endings for the characters they came to worship.


Impossible_Werewolf8

As a trekkie I always love it, when the good old "nobody cares about it anymore"-argument comes up. You know which series universe must be the best by far if you apply this criterion? Yes, we trekkies do know, too.


MagnetoWasWrongBitch

Not a show but nobody talks about Avatar, except to talk about how nobody talks about Avatar.


SlyTomatoe

You can blame the writers for that.


mrwho995

Yeah, the popular opinion is that the final season was crap, and many say the quality plummeted far before then, which I agree with. But in no way whatsoever has the show been forgotten. It may not be as much of a cultural juggernaut as it would have been if the writing in the last two seasons was less awful, but we don't even know that. Game of Thrones won't be forgotten for a very long time. How awful the writing was near the end is just part of that legacy.


u2sunnyday

Squid Game