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Compare [[Eternal September]].
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== [[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, [[
** 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.''
* The ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'' light novel fandom got a doubling or tripling in size as soon as the anime came out. It would only increase after the dub of the series was announced.
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== [[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.
== [[Film]] ==
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== [[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
** As with many other fandoms [[Harry Potter (
* 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
* 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
** 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
* ''[[
** And although the show has had a cult profile in the US since the 1970s, since about 2008 the show's profile in the US has been on an upward curve. The fact it's one of the few explicitly SF series airing on American TV in 2010-2011 that's actually surviving and not being cancelled after a dozen episodes - or in danger of cancellation - and with there being no ''[[Star Trek]]''-like alternative, has also attracted increased US attention.
** The comment above regarding newbies being drawn in by the revival only to find the older series not to their liking is also holding true with new Doctor Who fans, some of whom are finding the 1963-89 series is an acquired taste. This has led to a few schisms between aspects of fandom, such as those who declare Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant or Matt Smith the best Doctor ever, without having ever seen a Tom Baker or Jon Pertwee story in order to develop an informed opinion. Also look at any entry for Doctor Who on this very wiki which only look at the show from the revival's perspective with no knowledge of the first three decades of the show whatsoever. Let's just say it does result in a [[Double Take]] from an old series fan to see the Doctor touted as an example on romance and sex tropes as if that had ''always'' been the case.
* Any song covered on ''[[Glee]]'', with the exception of the ones it ripped from the Top 100.
* ''[[Supernatural]]'' got an odd amount of this after [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Castiel]] was introduced in Season 4, and some people heard so much about him that they decided to check out the show and got hooked. This being ''[[Unpleasable Fanbase|Supernatural]]'', there was wank from the fans who'd started watching earlier.
* ''[[Band of Brothers]]'' had a bit of this after James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender got popular (they were both in it early in their careers), but the majority of the fandom doesn't seem to mind.
== [[Music]] ==
* People who became fans of [[Marilyn Manson]] when the cover of "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" got heavy rotation on [[MTV]] were a great irritation to fans who had been following the group for several years before that song/video was released. They were known to old-school fans as "Sweet Dreamers," and Manson himself would often follow up live performances of the song with "All you kids can go home now."
* Muse and [[Paramore]] both gained a lot of new fans when their songs were featured in ''[[Twilight (
* The polarizing practice of [[Sampling]] tends to result in this. Like with ''[[Guitar Hero]]'', it's not a bad thing if gives the newbies exposure to classic songs they otherwise would probably never hear. If said newbies disrespect the original stuff in front of its dedicated fans, however, they're liable to ''lose a kidney''.
* [[The Grateful Dead]] experienced a surge in fans after their [[
* [[Genesis (
** The same can be said for [[
* [[
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* On [[Dating Sim|renai game]] forums around the time when several originally-in-English dating sims were popular on Newgrounds there was constant conflict between the few people who had imported and learned to read untranslated games, and the many people who were wondering why so few Safe For Work games were in English (especially if they were looking for [[Gender Flip|otome games]] ).
** In mid-2010, a [[Fan Translation]] of ''[[Tokimeki Memorial|Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side DS]]'' was quietly released. Just a month or two later, it was fascinating to notice how a discussion thread on gbatemp.net about plans for a fan translation of the second ''Tokimeki Memorial Girl's'' Side received many more replies, and quite a bit more enthusiasm.
* ''[[
** And now, ''[[Oh Crap|it's free.]]''
** Similar case for ''[[Left 4 Dead]]''. For one day, Valve is allowing anyone to download the game and try it out for free. Many players who had the game for a while are already complaining about the wave of new players flooding in and ruining their fun. They are also complaining about the same thing when Valve announced they would sell the game 40% off the original price for the weekend.
* This happened to ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' after ''[[Ocarina of Time]]'' was released. It got so bad that a sizeable portion of the younger fans kept referring to ''[[Majoras Mask]]'' as "Zelda 2," apparently not realizing that there were ''four'' games in the series before ''OoT.''
** Happens regularly with Nintendo games, especially those that went on generation-long hiatuses. You'd be hard pressed to find a person under 13 aware that the ''[[Metroid]]'' series existed before ''[[Metroid Prime|Prime]]''. This sometimes gets so bad that people refer to ''Metroid Prime 2'' as "Metroid II," which is a completely different game. And for a while, ''[[Metroid: Other M]]'' was occasionally referred to as ''Metroid'' '''''Prime:''''' ''Other M''.
* Apparently, a lot of people think that the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series started with ''[[Final Fantasy VII
* On [[
* Such a boom happened in the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' fanbase during the early 2000's, after the release of ''[[Sonic Adventure 2
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' vs. [[
* Any song covered in ''[[Guitar Hero]]''. ''Any. Song.''
* With the release of ''[[
* The success of this generation (Xbox 360, [[
* There are die-hard ''[[Star Fox (
* While the ''[[Tales Of]]'' series had a small fanbase in the West for many years thanks to the [[PS One]] games and distribution of the fan-translated ''[[
* The ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' community had to batten down the hatches in anticipation of one of these when its creators were interviewed by the New York Times.
* Similar to the [[
* Some Pokemon fans brought into the fandom with the release of [[Pokémon Black and White]] have never heard of 'mons from the orginal 4 generations, even famous ones such as Charmander and Mudkip, some not even Pikachu. Justified a little in that the game didn't feature any of them for the main part.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* [[MS Paint Adventures]] started having a massive increase in readership from around the end of ''[[Problem Sleuth]]'' to the first two act of ''[[Homestuck]]''.
** The introduction of ''Homestuck'''s trolls, a boon for shippers and roleplayers of all kinds, has caused an influx of readers who are interested mostly in that one part of the comic (much to the chagrin of many older fans).
== [[Web Original]] ==
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** Every summer, /b/ sees a bit of extra traffic due to school being out. This is referred to by the /b/tards as "Newfag Summer". Naturally, "summerfags" are hardly welcomed.
* The creation of the TV Tropes page for ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'', followed by an attempt to get it to [[Trope Overdosed]], caused a flood of new members to join the site from TV Tropes. While this was initially met with [[It's Popular, Now It Sucks|some displeasure]], it could be argued that the newbie flood saved it from dying out, as the site had begun to flag in the middle of version three.
* The Web itself drew a lot of people to the Internet, much to the annoyance of people who were regulars on [[UseNet]] and Gopher. See [[Eternal September]].
* This happened to [[Reddit]] when flocks of diggers who were [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|angry with the release]] of [[Digg]] v4 [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|fled]], making Digg a no-man's-land.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* This happened to the ''[[My Little Pony]]'' fandom when ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
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