In the case of game of thrones though I would say that’s just because the retards in charge of it let it get so shitty and made such a god-awful ending it essentially killed the franchise in it’s tracks. It would still be huge if they’d stuck the landing even a little bit.
That's true, but proof that memeability is not enough to keep a ship afloat.
It and Haruhi are almost exactly similar in that regard, in that a single season of Haruhi literally tanked the franchise so hard literally no one cared about it again. In their case it wasn't even shitty, it was putting "art" before "does anyone care tho."
In the case of game of thrones though I would say that’s just because the retards in charge of it let it get so shitty and made such a god-awful ending it essentially killed the franchise in it’s tracks. It would still be huge if they’d stuck the landing even a little bit.
That's true, but proof that memeability is not enough to keep a ship afloat.
It and Haruhi are almost exactly similar in that regard, in that a single season of Haruhi literally tanked the franchise so hard literally no one cared about it again. In their case it wasn't even shitty, it was putting "art" before "does anyone care tho."