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Screentime vs Popularity Disproportionate Character Meme

This is a comparison meme set on a plain white background, showing two hardcover books of vastly different thickness. The thin left book is labeled 'The amount of screentime they had', while the extremely thick right book is labeled 'Their Popularity'. The visual gag highlights the common fandom phenomenon where characters who appear for very little time in films, TV shows, games or other media end up gaining a disproportionately massive amount of fan love, attention and popularity compared to characters with far more screen time.
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Overview

This is a comparison meme set on a plain white background, showing two hardcover books of vastly different thickness. The thin left book is labeled 'The amount of screentime they had', while the extremely thick right book is labeled 'Their Popularity'. The visual gag highlights the common fandom phenomenon where characters who appear for very little time in films, TV shows, games or other media end up gaining a disproportionately massive amount of fan love, attention and popularity compared to characters with far more screen time.

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This meme uses a widely circulated generic book size comparison template, where differently sized books are used to illustrate contrasting quantities or trends. This specific iteration was shared via the X.com (formerly Twitter) meme.jpg RSS feed, and is commonly shared in online fandom communities to joke about fan-favorite minor characters.

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