The Hunger Games Ranked #7 Most Devoted Fandom
In an article by Vulture, they examined and ranked what they call “The 25 Most Devoted Fan Bases” out there today. “The Hunger Games” received high marks with by coming in at #7. Here’s what they had to say about it:
POPULARITY: Suzanne Colllins’s book trilogy is Amazon’s best-selling series of all time, while the 2012 film counterpart had the fifth-biggest opening weekend in history ($152.5 million domestic) and became the thirteenth-biggest-grossing domestic movie of all time ($408 million). Has inspired countless tie-ins (a cookbook, a sports club workout, a $999 Mockingjay pin).
FACEBOOK FOLLOWERS: 7.8 million
TWITTER FOLLOWERS: 657,000
FAN NICKNAME: Tributes
MAIN HANGOUTS: Mockingjay.net, Hunger Games Tumblrs
AVERAGE DEMOGRAPHIC: Female, teen, or teen at heart. Thanks to better writing and kid-on-kid violence, the franchise attracts a wider following than its vampire counterpart, Twilight, but the core audience is still young women.
DEVOTIONAL PROFILE: Mere hours after Jennifer Lawrence was cast as the big-screen Katniss in 2011, the forums were rumbling: She’s not skinny enough! She’s too fair-skinned! Her hair is (gasp) blonde! The immediate outrage over Lawrence — a 20-year-old Oscar nominee and an obviously talented actress — was about fidelity; Collins’s books enthralled young readers (and the elders who read along with them) because of their precise, horrifying detail. So cue the ever-vigilant Hunger Games fan Tumblr, which monitors casting notices and opines daily about which actors meet the exacting specifications of the source material for the upcoming sequels. They post set photos and analyze costume and makeup decisions. They speculate endlessly about which minor characters will or will not make it into the movie.
And though it is young adults (read: teen girls) who participate most enthusiastically in this online behavior, the Hunger Games phenomenon has overtaken their elders, too. It is hard to find a parent without an opinion on the franchise’s violence or a twentysomething female without an opinion on Gale versus Peeta. Most crucially, it is near-impossible to meet anyone who has not seen the movie: The widespread book-to-movie obsession resulted in an astounding opening and toppled all previous Twilight records. Should there be any doubt about continued interest, just consult the fan sites, where a never-ending war rages on about the physical embodiment of Finnick Odair and whether Sam Claflin is fit to play him. (Spoiler alert: He is probably not. But a record number of moviegoers will buy tickets to find out.)
What do you think of their assessment?
Source: Vulture.com with thanks to our friends at DWTC
I liked the list a lot. Well researched. (I like the last sentence for the Doctor Who entry quite a bit. Very true.)
Thanks for the link.
Come on, “Tributes”, let’s raise it up to NUMBER 1!!! May the odds be ever in our favor!
We should be #1 also Im at target and they finally started selling the hunger games calendars I brought one it costs $9.99 I’m not sure if u guys already know but I’m just letting u guys cuz they bearly started selling those calendars here in Chicago so yeah!!!
…game of thrones? really? how did they measure that one?
apart from that, i find it a very comprehensive list. i was pleasantly surprised that THG made it to number 7– i always keep trying to dial down my excitement thinking the fandom’s not that big, it just feels that way right now because of the movie, but the media keeps proving me wrong about that. i liked that they mention the core audience is “female, teen or teen at heart”– made me chuckle because it is so true for many of us here.
@carla me to I feel that way sometimes but I guess its not true I also think that we are very crazy fans lol like the relationship name of katniss and Peeta and Peeta fans calling themselves peetahilies I also wanna know where all the hunger games fans are in Chicago I only know 2 people who like THG but they are not as obsessed as I am
Putting “near-impossible to find anyone who has not seen the movie” I think is a bit of an exaggeration. That’s just my opinion, but I’m pretty sure I could find plenty of people at my school who haven’t. Not everyone is a huge fan of the books. (and they don’t know what they’re missing out on!
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*books and movie.
I’m glad about the clarification on “what we’re called”. But really? We’re made up of “mostly teen girls”? HECK NO!!! All of my friends are Tributes and 50% of them are guys. Even people I don’t know are guys that like THG. My PARENTS have read it and enjoyed it!! And gaining their approval is good because they’re language arts teachers. I don’t care what anyone says. As far as BOOKS go, I’d say #1: Harry Potter #2: Lord of the Rings #3: Hunger Games #4: Twilight. Feel free to correct me.
Yeah! Cool!
But I can’t say I agree with putting game of thrones at number one–of all the book nerds I know, one’s who’ve read it/seen the show aren’t obsessed.
While I agree that the core audience is certainly adolescent, and leans toward female, I am sick and tired of how the mainstream media continually dismisses THG as just a slightly more violent, better-written version of Twilight. The summary also makes fans us look pretty shallow, focused merely on appearances of actors, and the love triangle. Note that NOTHING in this article mentions anything about the themes of government tyranny, the role of media and propaganda, the lasting effects of war and other forms of violence in people exposed to it. It doesn’t surprise me, but it still annoys me.