ATLA Renaissance
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| Event | |
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| Event: | A:TLA Renaissance, Avatar Renaissance |
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| Date(s): | Spring 2020 - 2021? |
| Type: | Fandom Renaissance |
| Fandom: | Avatar: The Last Airbender |
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For now see Avatar: The Last Airbender#2020 Renaissance
History
- Show aired 2005-2008
- fandom ?continued strong? for a while thereafter (I assume?? I wasn't there)
- but y'know show fandoms fade with time, and a lot of people moved on to Legend of Korra
- Then it became available to stream on Netflix
- actually earlier (i think in 2019??) in some regions of the world, but the big impact was when it came to US Netflix in ??May 2020??
- this (probably in concordance with Covid-19 and Fandom) lead to a huge resurgence of interest in the show
- Massive increase in fic on ao3 (about 10k in 2019~30k by the end of 2020 -- TODO pull numbers)
- Chart topper in Tumblr Fandometrics too
- soo much fanart
- TODO: research activity off tumblr??? i was just on tumblr and ao3 lol
Fandom Impact
Rise of Zukka
Fan Comments
Tumblr post by lizard-business commenting on themes/discussions of the "Avatar Renaissance", encouraged people to reblog with their own additions. The post accrued over 13,000 notes by 2024:
Avatar Renaissance Things
- Which Zuko hair is best Zuko hair debates
- We’ve all just decided Zuko is an awkward turtleduck
- He’s also 100% a Theatre Kid
- What exactly is the governmental structure of Omashu?
- Toph and Zuko deserved a life changing field trip together
- We’ve finally stopped pretending like Sokka is a big dumb child and accepted that he is a DAD
- Finally some good fucking Suki appreciation
- Who is more likely to kill a man in cold blood - Appa or Momo?
- Get Zuko Therapy
- Katara could you stop inciting revolutions for FIVE MINUTES we’re on a tight schedule here
- Customer Service Worker Zuko
- Alternatively, The Firelord is Lee from the tea shop???
- Zukka has singlehandedly defeated the old Kataang/Zutarra discourse as god intended
- Is Aang technically Zuko’s great grandfather?
- Chief Hakoda signing Zuko’s adoption paperwork first chance he gets
- ThEy aRE LitERaLLy cHiLdrEN oH My GoD wHY Are tHeY FigHTiNg a WaR???
lizard-buisness, 17 June 2020 [1]
Got a shout-out in Sanderstober 2020:
Sanderstober 2020 - Oct. 7th - Avatar: The Last Airbender experienced a renaissance this year! So, in tribute to that, take any character from any other piece of media (animation, TV, movie, etc.) and depict THEM if they also were an uber fan of ATLA this year!Sanderstober prompt, 2020 [2]
Aftermath
Links
References
- ^ Avatar Renaissance Things, Archived version posted by lizard-business on 17 June 2020.
- ^ Sanderstober Prompt List part 1, Archived version posted by Thomas Sanders to Twitter on 30 September 2020. Also seen in this fanart by shiovan.