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Line 5: Compare [[Eternal September]]. {{examples}} == [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] == * Anime conventions in the early 1990s: 90% college age males talking about giant robots and starships. Then suddenly in 1996, after ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' hit, "Where did all these 13-year old girls come from?" Later on, [[Dragon Ball\|"What's with all these teenagers wearing orange gis?"]], [[Yu-Gi-Oh!\|"Why does everyone have a deck of cards with them?"]], [[Fullmetal Alchemist\|"Why are there a bunch of guys in metal armor?"]], [[Naruto\|"Why are they wearing metallic headbands?"]], [[Death Note\|"Why are people bringing in black notebooks?"]] [[Ouran High School Host Club\|"Why are all these people wearing blue blazers?"]]... Now at some of the larger anime conventions (Otakon held in Baltimore, for example) the attendees don't dress exclusively as anime characters anymore and the Con is very much flavored by whatever's "hot" at the time regardless of its nation of origin. At the 2008 convention (right after [[The Dark Knight]] was released) "Why is everyone [[Batman\|The Joker?]]" ''At an anime convention.'' Line 20: == [[Comic Books]] == * With the announcement of the ''[[Watchmen]]'' film, the fan community swelled to massive size as people swarmed to read the original graphic novel and became enraptured. This fandom has increased even more so today, due to the film's release. ~~== [[Fanfic]] ==~~ * [[Fan Fiction]] first became big with the opening of [http://www.fanfiction.net FanFiction.net]. == [[Film]] == Line 28 ⟶ 25: == [[Literature]] == * After the ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' movies premiered, the Middle-Earth fandom swelled up. This trope generally applies whenever [[The Film of the Book]] is made, as in the ''[[Watchmen]]'' example above. * ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fans that read ''[[Harry Potter and ~~The~~the Philosopher's Stone (novel)\|The Philosopher's/Sorceror's Stone]]'' '''before''' ''[[~~The~~Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (novel)\|Chamber of Secrets]]'' came out are hard to find. The real Newbie Boom occurred between the release of ''Chamber of Secrets'' and ''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (novel)\|Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' and then another between that and ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (novel)\|Goblet of Fire]]''. By ''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (novel)\|Order of the Phoenix]]'' most people were on board. ** As with many other fandoms [[Harry Potter (film)\|the movies]] coming out also led to this. * Ortega y Gasset claimed this happening to [[Real Life]] Europe in his (non-fiction) work ''The Revolt of the Masses''. Until ~1800, Europe's population grew slowly to 180 million people; from 1800 to 1914, to whopping 460 millions. Being a cultural pessimist, he blamed the decay of culture on this. == [[Live -Action TV]] == * Infamously, a large number of [[Star Trek: The Original Series\|original series ''Star Trek'']] fans didn't watch it when it originally aired in the late ~~1960's~~1960s. However, Paramount aired reruns of the series in syndication throughout the ~~1970's~~1970s, which is how a far larger number of people were exposed to it. This wasn't as much of a datable "boom" so much as steady growth across a decade. The success of the 80s era ''[[Star Trek]]'' movies exponentially increased the number of Trek fans and led not to a remake, but to a sequel series ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''. It, in turn, exponentially increased the Trek fanbase even further. ** Perhaps an even better example is the [[Star Trek (film)\|2009 ''Star Trek'' reboot film]], which was popular even among non Trek fans. However, the newbie boom that resulted caused many newcomer fans to discover the old TV shows weren't quite the same as the movie—and may not have aged very well. * ''[[Doctor Who]]'' got this in 2005, with the launch of the new series. ** And although the show has had a cult profile in the US since the 1970s, since about 2008 the show's profile in the US has been on an upward curve. The fact it's one of the few explicitly SF series airing on American TV in 2010-2011 that's actually surviving and not being cancelled after a dozen episodes - or in danger of cancellation - and with there being no ''[[Star Trek]]''-like alternative, has also attracted increased US attention.