History Main / JustHereforGodzilla

** Women's tennis has increased ratings in the U.S. when Serena and Venus Williams are playing, in fact, the 2001 U.S. Open match between them was moved to prime time because of the positive effects they had on ratings. This similarly happened in the 2015 U.S. Open: Venus and Serena's quarterfinal match drew more fans than the women's final, which was not helped that Serena got upset in the semis after beating Venus...and further exacerbated that that loss foiled Serena's bid for a Grand Slam (winning the U.S. Open, the French Open, the Australian Open, and Wimbledon in the same calendar year, something that hadn't happened in any singles play in 27 years).[[note]]Also not to be confused with ''golf's'' Grand Slam, which is winning the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, and PGA Championship in the same year. ''That'' in its modern form has never happened, with the closest it has come being Tiger Woods winning all four over two years, from 2000 to 2001.[[/note]]

** Women's tennis has increased ratings in the U.S. when Serena and Venus Williams are playing, in fact, the 2001 U.S. Open match between them was moved to prime time because of the positive effects they had on ratings. This similarly happened in the 2015 U.S. Open: Venus and Serena's quarterfinal match drew more fans than the women's final, which was not helped that Serena got upset in the semis after beating Venus...and further exacerbated that that loss foiled Serena's bid for a Grand Slam (all four major tournaments won in a year, something that hadn't happened in any singles play in 27 years).

* Some people are on Website/{{Facebook}} not for the social or communication aspects for it so much as games like ''Mafia Wars'' and ''VideoGame/FarmVille''.

* On Website/{{Twitch}}, users sometimes subscribe to a channel not because they like or even watch its content, but because the channel offers custom emotes that they like.

* There are some amateur adult videos online that some people only watch to see their pets prance around in the background, as the Website/{{Tumblr}} user "indifferent-cats-in-amateur-porn" shows us.

* In the same way, a study by the NFL has shown that a big part of their ratings decline has come from the retirement of Creator/PeytonManning.

* Often seen in Major League Baseball when some player is about to tie or break a record, even if doing so doesn't mean anything for the team since they're out of contention and it might not even matter to the game outcome.

** Inter Miami's signing of Lionel Messi in 2023 is a shining example. When he was substituted off during his second game, ''half the stadium'' got up and left because they'd been there just to see him. And when the mere ''possibility'' arose that he might not be able to play in a game against Chicago Fire due to injury, Chicago panicked enough that they essentially began ''paying people to buy tickets''.

* For those people not sold on Generation 5 and its' divisive premise [[note]] It's technically a follow-up to ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' but set so far in the future that all the previous series' characters are dead, so the writers can have an excuse to make up whatever the hell they want and use the TimeSkip to justify it. [[/note]] probably only watched the beginning of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyANewGeneration'' to see the Mane Six for one final time.

* A textbook example with the {{Trope Namer|s}} is is ''WesternAnimation/TheGodzillaPowerHour''. The only real reason anyone remembers the show, despite being a lesser-remembered Creator/HannaBarbera effort, is because Franchise/{{Godzilla}} himself is one of the main characters.

* A textbook example with the {{Trope Namer|s}} is is ''WesternAnimation/TheGodzillaPowerHour''. The series is another low-budget Creator/HannaBarbera cookie-cutter cartoon with a forgettable human cast, StrictlyFormula story, LimitedAnimation, and annoying KidAppealCharacter. The only real reason anyone still mentions or watches the show is because ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' is one of the main characters.
* Face it, the only reason you tune in to watch ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'' is to see whatever scheme [[BreakoutCharacter Dick Dastardly]] [[DickDastardlyStopsToCheat is planning]].

* UsefulNotes/GeraldFord's memoir was 30,000 words long, but the main reason anyone wanted to read it was to see why he pardoned UsefulNotes/RichardNixon. This was actually [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_%26_Row_v._Nation_Enterprises acknowledged in court]] -- when magazine ''The Nation'' excerpted the entire relevant text (300 words) for their review, the publisher sued them, and it was deemed ''not'' UsefulNotes/FairUse, on the grounds that those 300 words were "the heart of the work".

** Music/MichaelJackson definitely started this -- Music/PaulMcCartney's "Say Say Say" and Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me" would not have sold nearly as well had he not done guest vocals on them. Rockwell is a special case since [[OneHitWonder he is not known for anything else]]. The only reason why Jackson sang on The Jacksons' "Victory" and one track on 2300 Jackson Street is that his family begged him to use his star power to make them money.

* One of the trends of UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks was the artists and fans placing emphasis on art over story such that superstar artists even started their own publishing companies. Eventually, backlash shifted things back in favor of the writing especially as the novelty of the stylized and exaggerated art of that era wore off.

* Every GameMaster who has focused on plots has encountered this. The entire joke about The Munchkin File's [[PlayerArchetypes archetypes]] reveals ''three'' of the four are there just for Godzilla. TheLoonie is there for a laugh, TheRealMan is there to put the hurt on something in a power fantasy, and the {{Munchkin}} is there just for whatever gives the most plusses. Other RPG guides talk about players who just want to play out their personal fantasy over and over, those who like outfoxing the GM's best antagonists, and gamers who are there just to hang with their friends.

* The Wrestling/MontrealScrewjob at Wrestling/{{WWE}} Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 1997. There were six other matches that night; does ''anybody'' ever talk about them?

* Similar to the ''Legend Goes On'', viewers are only interested in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTheTitanic'' because of the reviews on Website/YouTube. The same can be said for its sequel ''Tentacolino''.

* Similarly, some fans who still struggle through [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] watch solely for Wrestling/AustinAries, Wrestling/KurtAngle or Wrestling/BobbyRoode. Wrestling/SamoaJoe is also common and in the early years, you might have heard Monty Brown or Wrestling/AJStyles. Between 2007 and 09, Wrestling/GailKim, Wrestling/AwesomeKong or, [[EnsembleDarkhorse surprisingly]], Wrestling/{{Daffney| Unger}} might have been mentioned as well.

* ''VideoGame/HomeFrontTheRevolution'' includes an Easter Egg where player can find an arcade cabinet and play the first two levels of ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters 2''. Some years after release, it was found that not just the first two levels, but all of ''Timesplitters 2'' was accessible through undocumented cheat codes, though in a somewhat broken state. A mod project started to polish it up and make it more easily accessible, turning into a bona-fide PC port of a major CultClassic. The modders correctly anticipated that there would be a substantial number of people that'd buy the game purely for ''Timesplitters 2'' and included an option in the installer to delete the ''Homefront The Revolution'' files.

* Many a fan have jumped aboard the ''VideoGame/LiesOfP'' bandwagon for no other reason besides either the PrettyBoy-fied [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio Pinocchio]] or the ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}''-inspirred aesthetics.

* ''VideoGame/NamcoHigh'''s main gimmick was that you could date various Creator/BandaiNamco characters. However, many people only played it because Davesprite, Jane, and Terezi from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' were [[GuestFighter guest characters]] you could also date.

* For ''VideoGame/SpudsAdventure'', if you've heard of this game, chances are that it's either because of how ludicrously rare the game, because the sprite of Devi was used as the main antagonist for the creepypasta ''Misfortune.gb'', or for the unexpected pathos of a character named Arnie Eggplant DyingInYourArmsTonight as part of the story.

* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' is the most popular series on ''Website/ScrewAttack'', to the point where the comments section on any of their other videos is flooded with suggestions for future Death Battles. A lot of ''Death Battle''[='=]s fandom is happy to just skip the research and comparisons between the two fighters at the start and get straight to the fight scene. [=ScrewAttack=] seemingly developed the SpinOff ''WebAnimation/OneMinuteMelee'' for these people -- two fighters, 60 seconds, no research. Taken to a more Meta extreme, most of [=ScrewAttack=]'s Website/YouTube page is dominated by ''Death Battle''. The comments sections of Non-''Death Battle'' videos are filled with suggestions for matchups, asking when the next episode is and at times '''demanding''' the next episode over other content, threatening to unsubscribe if they don't release it. Taken the logical extreme when it was announced at the end of "Yang vs. Tifa" that the next ''Death Battle'' matchup would be revealed at the end of the season finale of ''The Industry'' -- many commenters deliberately ''spoiled the ending of the episode'' by posting the matchup ("Megaman vs. Astroboy") in the comments along with a message running along the lines of "There, now you don't have to sit through all this crap to find out the next ''Death Battle''. You're welcome."

* Many people create accounts on the Website/YouTube-mimicking sites Zippcast and Vidlii just for the "Old Youtube" channel layout.

* Someone once commented that he only watched a 20-minute-long ''WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob'' review for a 1-minute-long Linkara cameo. The Snob was not amused.

* Music/BrentalFloss of Website/YouTube fame has done lots of skits and other videos on his channel, but what really got him high popularity was his "X With Lyrics" series where he makes up a song based on the chosen video game. Nowadays, most people who look up Brental Floss only look for his lyrics series.

Depending on what you came for, however, it can feel like the creators are deliberately putting obstacles in your way to that destination. If you came to a movie for the action sequences, you could find yourself waiting well over an hour for the first big one, for example. Or maybe your favorite character in a video game is unplayable unless you accomplish some arbitrary task like playing the same mode a few dozen times. In fact, this is precisely where the term "cut to the chase" originated, as plenty of movies made during the early days were thoroughly uninteresting to their audience, but included an exciting chase at the end that people would come for. [[TropeNamers Named for]] the Franchise/{{Godzilla}} franchise, well known for its long and sometimes ''awful'' [[ExcusePlot human plotlines]]- that we'll all sit through just to see the [[BehemothBattle awesome giant-monster fighting]] at the end.

* When the Toyota Sprinter Trueno AE86 is reviewed in ''WebVideo/RegularCarReviews'', Mr. Regular rants that people don't like the ''car'', they like a cartoon that features the car. [[Manga/InitialD A boring cartoon!]]

* In a less mean-spirited way, TGWTG fandom only watches ''WebVideo/TheCartoonShow'' (a ClicheStorm EdutainmentShow for kids) for Doug. Whoever wrote it used this to their advantage, as second episode in and Doug's character burst into tears, something that fandom greatly enjoys.

* Someone once commented that he only watched a 20-minute-long [[WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob Cinema Snob]] review for a 1-minute-long Linkara cameo. The Snob was not amused.