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    The same is true of John Wick, and by my estimate, that has had a significantly bigger impact on pop culture.

    Also, Avatar is only like 5 years newer than A:TLA, but even ten years ago the cultural impact of TLA was monumental compared to the impact of Cameron’s Avatar today

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      How do you measure it? Pandora theme park rides are insanely packed all the time. The first movie led to everyone getting 3DTVs, there were people who got depressed since they couldn’t live on Pandora.

      Sure the terminally online crowd doesn’t gush about it, but you’d be lying if it didn’t have any impact.

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        Another reminder that we all share the same internet, but we live in different universes. Ain’t no one I know wasted money on a 3DTV or regular theme park rides. I guess among the folk that can afford obscenely expensive toys and even more expensive vacations, it might have had a bigger impact, but of the 5 figure income folks I know, not one really cares about the movies. I don’t even know of anyone who bought a 3DTV, let alone bought one specifically for Avatar

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            I never said nobody watched it. The whole point of this discussion is that it’s surprising how little cultural impact it has despite the insane viewer numbers

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              More that they don’t follow IN YOUR CIRCLE. Seriously, avatar chud meme is all over twitter and reddit regardless of fandoms.

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                A meme and a theme park ride are enough to show that a movie made a truly nuclear impact on popular culture, got it

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                  10 months ago

                  And like 2 billion dollars both movies have made individually?

                  As opposed to what exactly was ATLA’s cultural impact? A toxic fandom that moans about getting female led content?

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                    Once again I must restate that this whole discussion is about the fact that, despite it being the highest grossing movie of all time, it has left no impact on popular culture, aside from one amusement park ride and one meme. What don’t you get about this? I am acknowledging the impressive amount of money the movie made, while at the same time pointing out that it didn’t impact popular culture even a little bit, aside from a few jokes making fun of the lazy writing.

                    Can you quote even one line from the movie without looking it up?