What can Google Trends tell us about D&D?

[Noumenon]

It looks like "Enworld" resisted the decline better than most RPG-related terms -- until after 4E came out.

 

[Agamon]

As for Naruto, I bet Hannah Montana is pretty high, too. And did you see the numbers for Marely and Me? It's a kid's world, the rest of us just live here.

 

[Noumenon]

Actually, Naruto crushes Miley Cyrus. Actually, Naruto crushes "Britney Spears" -- what's going on here? Because Yahoo said Britney was #1. But "Naruto" was #7 on their list, I see.

That's really weird -- I just picked Naruto because I, personally, like it, because I saw a [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyrzpAgX0QI"]cool AMV[/ame] of it when I was searching YouTube for music. I had no idea it was a big phenomenon. For all I knew it was the size of Full Metal Alchemist, which I had at least heard of. So I've been comparing D&D to this gigantic juggernaut of Internet searches by mistake!

Edit: Wow. The forum technology converted that to an embedded video for me. That's pretty groovy. I'll let it stay.