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xie323 Since: Jul, 2009
#1: Jul 27th 2013 at 7:30:51 AM

From the current trends going on in pop culture and in works of fiction, along with their impact on the Internet as a whole what do you think will be major Pop Culture/Fandom Trends and worldviews in the Next 10-20 years on the pop culture of 2000-2010? It can be memes, crowners, shipping and any phenomenon that can emerge from Pop Culture.

Here are my guesses

  • Game of Thrones will be a hotbed for memes and moments of awesome until it concludes with the final ASOIAF book
  • If in the scenario where GRRM dies and the book series is left incomplete, Game Of Thrones will end with a Gecko Ending based on the most popular ending scenario with fans
  • Tyrion will be considered one of the great legends in Fiction, as will Littlefinger and probably the Starks
  • Twilight will be more open to scruntiny in the future and it's fanbase will fade into obscurity
  • Justin Bieber will lose fans and be more open to even more Hatedom in the future
  • Disney Channel will be hated by virtually a large percentage of the Internet continuing trend from now
  • Continuing from a recent trend, Digimon Adventure 02 will face more and more backlash and it's nostalgic value 10 years ago will be forgotten at some point
  • AMC will be a very popular cable channel for drama. Their wives will still be very polorizing through
  • Due to the Hatedom torwards Young Hunters, do not expect a Digimon show in many years, as with what happened after Frontier
  • Glee will not last beyond Season 5 or 6—it's cast is metaphorically decapitated, most of the major pairings will be sunk and even if it reinvents itself following Cory/Finn's death, the damage has most likely been done
  • Within the Glee fandom, expect a steady growth of Finchel apologists(normally Finchel is a very divisive pairing) over time due to Cory's death to the point where they are a popular What Could Have Been pairing in that fandom. Had Cory/Finn lived, there will actually be even less fans of this pairing instead of a growth.
  • Aside from this change, the situation in fandoms regarding shipping will be unchanged
  • World of Warcraft will be looked on more critically because of how it has caused "cancer" in the MMO industry
  • Tor Tanic will be viewed slightly more positively—most people who played the game actually liked it, so the criticism was economical/EA loses a lot of money
  • Assuming Critical Dissonance continues to exist with the Hobbit trilogy, there will be a rise in Hobbit trilogy defenders over time and the films will become cult classics if the critics trash them
  • At some point in the future, EA will dissolve
  • Elder Scrolls Online will Fail and it will be the subject of Tor Tanic style memes
  • Guild Wars II will inspire more F 2 P games to follow it's model
  • MERP(a failed attempt to make a LOTR conversion in Skyrim) might be rebooted with the Elder Scrolls VI or VII or with next-Gen systems
  • Bitcoins will be a major force in the online economy, and be a launching pad for many memes
  • There will be another megaupload
  • The Star Trek reboot will continue to be a source of Flame War
  • If the new Star Wars movies fail or are judged to either little better be on par with the prequels, there will be a surge in Prequel Apologists AND a movement to ensure that Red Letter Media is discredited and the prequels are Vindicated by History, however if the new Star Movies are a critical and commercial success, the prequels Hatedom will increase
  • Harry Potter might come under more backlash
  • The Hunger Games will be seen as the stapleDystopian fiction of the 21st centuries
  • There will eventually be over a thousand Pokemon, each new game will have to rely more on new features. Maybe at some point its' popularity will decline, but I don't see it happening anytime soon.
  • One Generation of Pokemon games will take place in a region based off the Pacific Northwest.
  • Nintendo will either have improved their consoles, or left the market completely. I do predict their handheld consoles will continue.
  • Unless handheld consoles can become more powerful during this time I don't think this will be the last generation of consoles.
  • A hit Dark Tower movie or TV series may push the series into mainstream.
  • GTA 5 will probably be regarded as the San Andreas of this generation.
  • Google Glass, and devices like it, may or may not be successful in the future.
  • The Japanese Otaku Media Industry (Anime/Manga/Light Novels/Visual Novels, etc) starts embracing post-modernism, causing a lot of backlash in opinion towards Noughties-era titles.
  • Rockstar will do at least one foreign city for GTA, and do at least one GTA with a completely insane concept (Like a Saints Row IV style game)

edited 27th Jul '13 7:38:26 AM by xie323

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#2: Jul 27th 2013 at 10:56:38 AM

Disney Channel's actually not that bad... they have Phineas and Ferb and Gravity Falls going for them.

Nintendo will not have left the console industry entirely. They're too focused on making profits off of their consoles, so even flops will make them money. Who knows wrt them keeping up with Sony and Microsoft's Joneses, though.

Also, you forgot MLP, so I'll hypothesize that the fad will eventually die down (no idea if it's already doing so). It might make it through a Season 5 or 6, but none will be held in as high esteem as 1 or 2 were. The show will probably live on through heavy syndication, however, since they have the episodes to do it, but will never recapture its original glory.

Star Trek might have a new TV show within 20 years. (I dunno, I can dream.) It will still be a prime source of Broken Base, as it'd almost certainly have to acknowledge the Abrams films in some fashion.

Homestuck still won't have ended.

edited 27th Jul '13 11:02:43 AM by ShadowHog

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#3: Jul 27th 2013 at 11:09:19 AM

Homestuck will be the new Lord Of The Rings. I mean that as an insult to LOTR, not as a compliment to Homestuck.

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xie323 Since: Jul, 2009
#4: Jul 27th 2013 at 11:55:10 AM

I actually believe MLP will fill the hypothetical niche to be left over by Glee as the "Token Lighter and Softer Show" of mankind if it lasts for a long while AND does not Jump the Shark any time soon

edited 27th Jul '13 12:09:05 PM by xie323

DAStudent Since: Dec, 2012
#5: Jul 27th 2013 at 11:57:30 AM

I find it hard to imagine MLPFIM going mainstream, per se, but I could see it becoming a subculture that is recognized by the mainstream to exist.

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xie323 Since: Jul, 2009
#6: Jul 27th 2013 at 12:16:45 PM

@5

Not as in mainstream, but takes over the niche left by Glee if my prediction comes true. I won't be suprised if it's joined by Phineas And Ferb and animation is more accepted in cultural discourse

I also think that Star Wars The Clone Wars Hatedom will decrease in the future, and Star Wars Rebels will be a major Base Breaker

edited 27th Jul '13 12:18:45 PM by xie323

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#7: Jul 27th 2013 at 1:10:09 PM

Twilight will be more open to scruntiny in the future and it's fanbase will fade into obscurity.

The series itself will probably be read less and less, but I don't see people forgetting about it in twenty years. A hundred, yes, but not twenty. Twenty years was how long it took for Gone With The Wind to start showing on cable and hook in a new generation of sighing fangirls, remember.

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#8: Jul 28th 2013 at 2:36:07 PM

While MLP may fade into obscurity, the impact it would leave especially in regards to the Girl-Show Ghetto and Merchandise-Driven programming in how to make said concepts engaging for all ages. Not just 8 year old girls.

As per cycle, Disney will either start declining in quality or be in it's 4th Dork Age.

Novi Stars will be seen as high value collectors items for their uniqueness.

Monster High will be making dolls from the rest of the Fantasy Kitchen Sink..

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GeekCodeRed Since: Sep, 2010
#9: Jul 28th 2013 at 3:08:34 PM

Something else will be chosen as The Cancer That's Killing Gaming TM, while the Call Of Duty series goes on. Just like Halo used to be The Cancer That's Killing Gaming TM.

Some new franchise will spring up in the wake of Harry Potter / Twilight. We're seeing The Hunger Games going strong, but they can only squeeze two/three (if they pull a Deathly Hallows) out of it. Maybe that Percy Jackson sequel will succeed? Personally, I hope Artemis Fowl and Skulduggery Pleasant get out of Development Hell.

DAStudent Since: Dec, 2012
#10: Jul 28th 2013 at 3:11:28 PM

I think history will look back on Harry Potter much more kindly than Twilight, because, even though they're both hyped to hell and back, I think Harry Potter stands up much better in the absence of the hype than Twilight does. (Harry Potter got its hatedom because of the hype. Twilight got its hatedom in spite of the hype.)

edited 28th Jul '13 3:16:45 PM by DAStudent

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GeekCodeRed Since: Sep, 2010
#11: Jul 28th 2013 at 3:14:19 PM

Oh no, Harry Potter was awesome. Sure, as I grew up I noticed more and more flaws, but it is still awesome.

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