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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8813205" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Okay, so I had to try and figure out where the heck you keep getting these numbers from. I finally found something that said that 1.253 billion watch minutes for the first two episodes on this article. <a href="https://www.vulture.com/2022/09/the-rings-of-power-ratings-are-in-and-theyre-good.html" target="_blank">The Rings of Power Ratings Are In, and They’re Good</a>And this article says that House of the Dragon got 781 million watch minutes <a href="https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/house-of-the-dragon-rings-of-power-nielsen-streaming-ratings-viewers-1235388100/" target="_blank">Nielsen Streaming Top 10: ‘House of the Dragon’ and ‘The Rings of Power’ Face Off for the First Time</a>Now, of course, you need to convert some of these numbers. For example, the first article says that those Rings of Power numbers translate to about 9.6 million people, over the three days of streaming. But hey, let's really drive those numbers and say that they are wrong and it is actually 20 million people. That's huge right? Ever heard of Crunchyroll? <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crunchyroll" target="_blank">Crunchyroll - Wikipedia</a>Crunchyroll is a single site that caters to Anime. It isn't the only site, in fact they made a huge accquistion recently where they will begin showing some of the stuff from Funimation. You know how many users the site has? 120 million registered users. If we go back to the reported 9.6 million for Rings of Power, then we are looking at it having a mere 8% of "all of anime". Which one "doesn't chart?"And you keep going on about watch minutes, because that's the thing that matters I guess. Well, here is a thing for you: <a href="https://webtribunal.net/blog/crunchyroll-statistics/#gref" target="_blank">15+ Crunchyroll Statistics You Should Know in 2022</a>This? This states that EVERY MONTH 1.5 billion minutes of anime content are watched. And, if you scroll to read the actual fact instead of the blurb, you get thisI tried to highlight it, that 1.5 billion a month? That was information given "several years ago". So, we'll say, what? 5 years ago? The company is only 16 years old, so five years feels right. That would by 60 months, meaning that is 90 billion watch minutes. On a single streaming service. This does not include anime watched on television, on Netflix, on Hulu, on Funimation, on Youtube, ect ect ectAgain, you want to claim that Tolkien's work is more popular than all of anime? Really? Just another point of comparison. Watching all of the Peter Jackson Trilogies AND I'll just guess the twelve episodes of Rings of Power would take someone about 29 hours.  Watching the entirety of One Piece, and all the movies? 435.6 hours.  And that is just ONE of the "Big Three" from the early 2000's. Look, I get it, Tolkien has been popular for a long time. I won't deny that. But Tolkien isn't so big that it crowds out every other possible source of fantasy inspiration. It isn't THAT big in reality.</blockquote>

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