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Avatar: The Fandom That Failed
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Today we're looking at the Avatar franchise and how its lack of real-world fandom contrasts its record-breaking success at the box office.
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Music
By Your Side - David Luong
Happy-Go-Lively - Laurie Johnson
Cool Vibes - Kevin Macleod
Corduroy and Cheese - Piotr Pacyna
Covert Affair - Kevin Macleod
Film Noire - Kevin Macleod
Curious Notion - Terry Devine-King
Today's Diary - Chiro
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Timestamps
0:00 Intro
4:33 Sponsor
5:53 The Avatar Problem
7:19 James Cameron
10:25 Avatar's Release & Reception
12:15 Movies in the Mid 00's
12:47 Avatar-Mania?
13:49 The Fringe Fanbase
17:10 Avatar 2
18:21 Promoting Avatar 2
20:54 Avatar 2 Succeeds
22:21 The Fandom Still Flops (Kinda)
22:45 Avatar's Influence
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Komentáře

  • @thestoneage7213
    @thestoneage7213 Před 52 minutami

    I mean, I feel like they said a bunch in school chewing gum does help you focus on your test and remember the information you absorbed while chewing gum

  • @ByeBaybe
    @ByeBaybe Před 54 minutami

    you've never watched twistzz play csgo or anyone on liquid. when they're geeked at the major they're chewing gum.

  • @NayokeHenji
    @NayokeHenji Před hodinou

    pedro pascal?

  • @donaldpleasant7839
    @donaldpleasant7839 Před hodinou

    Great to hear Laurie Johnson music. But everything else about your video sucks.

  • @DanielJohnson-bu6gw
    @DanielJohnson-bu6gw Před 2 hodinami

    Last time I saw that Jar Jar dancing figure, it was being smashed with a hammer by Ashens. Fun times.

  • @DavideGendo
    @DavideGendo Před 4 hodinami

    It's such a strange phenomenon. You'd think that two movies which scored over 2 billion each despite coming 13 years apart, would be one of the major staples of current pop culture. Instead they've come, raked the money and disappeared every time, only to be popular again when the next movie comes out. The brief "Na'vikin" phenomenon didn't even repeat with the second movie, to my knowledge. As observed in some comments, however, it's likely their success is rooted in a more "regular" audience than in more dedicated fandoms.

  • @dootdootgutsu8637
    @dootdootgutsu8637 Před 4 hodinami

    Am I the only one who had the Shrek 2 body wash? I recall it smelling like green apple. It had a pretty cool bottle. Me and my cousin had it. We use to have water fights because the bottle had a squirtter on it.😅

  • @AI-Creations-LLC
    @AI-Creations-LLC Před 6 hodinami

    I have one of those puss n boots glasses don't drink out of it though. Thank god I never did.

  • @skipslash7367
    @skipslash7367 Před 11 hodinami

    avatar sucks because it teaches you to betray your species

  • @Graybers
    @Graybers Před 12 hodinami

    L

  • @Elemental_Entity
    @Elemental_Entity Před 12 hodinami

    I remember my 5th birthday party at McDonalds in 1985. Good times, forever gone. 😢

  • @jitters_xp
    @jitters_xp Před 16 hodinami

    I'm gonna make a star wars AU webtoon when I grow up, are you proud of me Mr. Slow? :)

  • @GravyAnimations417
    @GravyAnimations417 Před 17 hodinami

    they got rid of the animatronics????!! BRO WHAT THE HELL

  • @BigMeme-fl7tx
    @BigMeme-fl7tx Před 17 hodinami

    I dont know why, but the Nute Gunray cup disturbed me a lot more than a lot of the stuff in this video, excluding the jar jar landscape, of course.

  • @rocketsfall
    @rocketsfall Před 18 hodinami

    i'm sorry, it's difficult for me to focus on the subject matter of the video because i'm too distracted by the fact that you are a clone of pedro pascal

  • @user-zh3po5cp7s
    @user-zh3po5cp7s Před 18 hodinami

    Nick It was founded in 1977 and was originally called C-3

  • @15ShadowDude
    @15ShadowDude Před 19 hodinami

    good video

  • @heathercalun4919
    @heathercalun4919 Před 20 hodinami

    Wife: What are you doing, honey? CZcamsr: I'm writing a feature-length video essay about why James Cameron's "Avatar" never accumulated a fandom despite breaking box-office records on opening weekends. Wife: Why do you need two hours to say "The characters were too generic to distract from the story's uncomfortable white-savior overtones"? CZcamsr: In my defense, I spend seven minutes talking about how "Dances with Wolves" is still remembered fondly, to the point that nobody even remembers that the third act of that movie is basically a giant plot hole. Wife: Oh yeah; why _did_ John Dunbar immediately tell the officers who captured him about the diary, when the whole reason he returned to Fort Sedgwick in the first place was to confiscate the diary before it could be found and weaponized against the Sioux? Like okay he was being interrogated, but it's like he forgot he should be tight-lipped about this McGuffin that could potentially determine the fate of an entire culture for that one scene. CZcamsr: It's not awful, and clearly it didn't take too many people out of the experience. But it's just kind of a confusing plot beat. Say what you will about "Avatar", but the characters were never written as smart enough for it to be jarring if they act stupid.

  • @criticato8916
    @criticato8916 Před 21 hodinou

    'Peter was lying through his teeth' And in other news, the pope is still catholic

  • @tiramika
    @tiramika Před 22 hodinami

    i've met several blue avatar fans within the furry subculture. i think it's mostly cause people think they're cringe and they come hide out with us furries and the other fandoms that get bullied and made fun of. and judging by some of the comments on this video i don't blame them for hiding.

  • @quicheramene1860
    @quicheramene1860 Před dnem

    Could you imagine if Fazbear Entertainment inc had a similar incident like in the video, it wouldn't be the bite of 87, but the brawl of 87. 😂

  • @amimim69
    @amimim69 Před dnem

    Better this way then toxic fandom

  • @stevec.9037
    @stevec.9037 Před dnem

    i never knew kenner was based here in cincinnati! funny to think that so many corporations are based in this crappy d-list city

  • @dankerbell
    @dankerbell Před dnem

    close enough, welcome to youtube pedro pascal

  • @stevec.9037
    @stevec.9037 Před dnem

    i was too young to ever really interact with bionicle more than once or twice, only 5 when it was discontinued, but a little later on i was a big fan of lego star wars & the first season of ninjago, so my parents got me a lego club subscription. i fell in love with the hero factory comics in the magazine & the browser game, but i never got to actually play with or own any of the toys & it drove me nuts

  • @illusiveelk2558
    @illusiveelk2558 Před dnem

    I got here from the meme of the guy whacking the bar with the pole.

  • @arcbrush
    @arcbrush Před dnem

    It was sold as an experience and an experience it was. I will gladly go see the next movies and forget about them the next day. It is a museum for the senses while your brain sleeps, so there's not much to think about afterwards.

  • @mojyoqueen350
    @mojyoqueen350 Před dnem

    There already is a giant Avatar fan base. Just not this Avatar. Avatar the last airbender.

  • @lilithhawkins6454
    @lilithhawkins6454 Před dnem

    I work a wally world. Although I don't work candy much, I can't say I remember 5 gum being there. It's just so forgettable I guess.

  • @stevec.9037
    @stevec.9037 Před dnem

    mcdonald's is a terrible establishment. it isn't good food, it isn't cheap, it isn't fun for the kids, it isn't a nice atmosphere for you to eat in, it isn't even fast & convenient (if the constant ridiculous lines weren't enough, the cook times themselves are egregiously long in comparison to other fast food), i see no reason to ever go to mcdonald's

  • @gdduuhsstyhbbb
    @gdduuhsstyhbbb Před dnem

    I finally realized why this felt familiar. slow start just copied internet historian's style right down to fuckin titles

  • @kitsune.u4ea
    @kitsune.u4ea Před dnem

    If 5 is so good why didn’t they ever make 6?

  • @phannectionsextremetierexe

    To add context via faded memory to the "Battle" element of the first generation, I remember being given the instruction to knock my sibling's builds off to win. I feel like it may have been on a commercial or somewhere online for what online we had in 2002-2004 (this memory would be from 04/05). There must have been some kind of marketing or publicised conversation about the brand where a bunch of us heard it and grew up thinking it was the actual intention of the toys, or maybe there is plain out lost media? Later generations and the vertical loading launchers for the plastic balls were the best kind to use for mask-off contests.

  • @Miked1332
    @Miked1332 Před dnem

    To summarize, People initially thought the gum would actually make you feel things like an acid trip. Then everyone realized it's just gum, but it did last a long time and the packaging was nice so it was cool. Then they changed marketing tactics and made you completely forget about the gum altogether. Did Wrigley's learn nothing from the Quiznos commercials!? 😂😂😂

  • @Miked1332
    @Miked1332 Před dnem

    "The Axe Body Spray of Gum." That is VERY accurate. 😂😂

  • @Marbo12f
    @Marbo12f Před dnem

    The real comparison: Why has Avatar failed to produce a fandom where The Nightmare Before Christmas essentially has a store dedicated to it in every U.S mall.

  • @WholesaleOFFICIALChannel-dd2wi

    there is a mcdonalds playplace in spain

  • @yomilemondragon1721

    If corporations want customer-hostile environments, instead of removing everything fun for kids they should just let food service and retail employees settle disputes with customers with fisticuffs. That would actually be productive- it would weed out the shittier customers, encouraging a higher standard of clientele, and would double as marketing because you'd better believe that if my choices of where to eat all exploit underpaid overworked teenagers, you'd better believe I'm gonna pick the place that at least lets those workers kick the shit out of Karen.

  • @jrist15
    @jrist15 Před dnem

    I have no idea if this was somehow intentional but I got a genuine CZcams ad for 5 gum in this video. I swear I’ve never gotten those before lol

  • @SonjaHamburg
    @SonjaHamburg Před dnem

    Bought it once when they were new. Most dissapointing food I ever bought.

  • @abcxyz-bq2cc
    @abcxyz-bq2cc Před dnem

    me sorry

  • @home9dog2blue199
    @home9dog2blue199 Před dnem

    weren't the "Jet Fusion" episodes technically "movies"??

  • @BigBrosFilms
    @BigBrosFilms Před dnem

    I only watched the movie cause the blue people are hot

  • @home9dog2blue199
    @home9dog2blue199 Před dnem

    Jimmy Neutron walked so that: Tak and the power of Juju, Fanboy and ChumChum, Back at the Barnyard, The Penguins of Madagascar, Kungfu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, TMNT (all that i can remember for now) *ALL* Could run

  • @CAHH215
    @CAHH215 Před dnem

    The shrek nesquik flavor was the best fucking thing to exist, ever

  • @ZachBobBob
    @ZachBobBob Před dnem

    I think this is a definitely a case of investors always demanding an increase on profits year on year instead of being happy with an already successful product which requires the advertisers and product makers to keep trying new things to grow their market share which eventually shittifies the product and the consumers move onto something else. It happens with everything, from games to movies to software. If it aint broke, dont fix it

  • @SammyPfoten95
    @SammyPfoten95 Před dnem

    Hot Take... The Kenner figures were garbage compared to the one's we got in the 90's and early 2000's with the proper lightsabers and properly movable limbs.

  • @hjardine24
    @hjardine24 Před dnem

    The discord call was a great touch bro 😂😂😂 loved the video.

  • @realBluTV
    @realBluTV Před 2 dny

    Proceeds to exaggerate chewing on discord lol. Although gamers don't chew gum while gaming from what I'm aware.

  • @user-yv6fj5ec7h
    @user-yv6fj5ec7h Před 2 dny

    I eat gum while playing sometimes