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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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* After 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 Philosopher's Stone|The Philosopher's/Sorceror's Stone]]'' '''before''' ''[[The Chamber of Secrets]]'' came out are hard to find. The real Newbie Boom occurred between the release of ''Chamber of Secrets'' and ''[[Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' and then another between that and ''[[Goblet of Fire]]''. By ''[[Order of the Phoenix]]'' most people were on board.
** 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 Action TV]] ==
* Infamously, a large number of original series ''Star Trek'' fans didn't watch it when it originally aired in the late 1960's. However, Paramount aired reruns of the series in syndication throughout the 1970's, 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:
** Perhaps an even better example is the 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.
* ''[[
** 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.
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== [[Meta]] ==
* [[TV Tropes (Wiki)|This wiki]] gets a Newbie Boom each time an outside community links in. ''[[
== [[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 [[
* [[Queensryche]] experienced this after the release of the hit single "Silent Lucidity" off the album ''Empire'' in 1990. It became a "crossover" hit, so to speak, into the pop-music genre. When the band toured, they realized during at least one show in New York State, that many of the attendees were there solely for that one song, and had no idea about the concept of the rest of the album- or the band's music otherwise. They stopped the concert long enough to explain who the characters were and the basic plot.
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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 [[Game FAQs]], this happens during the Christmas season or near it when a big game is released and all the new players flood the boards asking things that many of the new experienced players already know about and expect everyone else to.
* 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 [[Game FAQs]] example above, fans of nearly any multiplayer game that is released from September to November complain or rejoice in the "Christmas Noob Rush," where a huge volume of new players flood the game for easy kills.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* This happened to the ''[[My Little Pony]]'' fandom when ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
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