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I wonder how much did Netflix's Witcher(or the game for that matter) contribute to the emergence of this genre?
by Tade0 6y ago
I wonder how much did Netflix's Witcher(or the game for that matter) contribute to the emergence of this genre?
- kroltan 6y agoWitcher is not the first medieval fantasy show or game. Memes using the Bayeux tapestry were a reasonably active niche a few years ago, I suspect this phenomenon is derived from that.
- mixedCase 6y agoThe Witcher, the Netflix show, has a bard song which became a popular earworm. I'm confident it has played a part in the popularization of Bardcore as a meme/genre.
- booleandilemma 6y agoPretty sure normies learned about bards from The Witcher and not, say, EverQuest.
- kroltan 6y agoHas Bardcore reached "normies" at all yet?
- throwawaynothx 6y agoYou're here arnt you.
- xcambar 6y agoOr maybe people with a regular western European education didn't wait for the Witcher to know what a bard is. That's like... hundreds of millions of people. Most of them "normies" by your standards, certainly :)
- watt 6y agoI think the juxtaposition of modern writing and wit in Witcher with the not-really-medieval society stuck with pre-steam technology might be the catalyst for creating the Bardcore genre.
- gitgud 6y agoI'll admit I initially thought Bard was a derogatory term, from the way they were using it in "The Witcher"...
- BjoernKW 6y agoI haven't watched "The Witcher" but "The Bard" is a common, affectionate moniker for one of the English language's most quintessential and influential playwrights and poets. If anything I'd considered that term to be flattering.
- gitgud 6y agoJust sounded derogatory, if you hadn't heard the term before... for example; > "Stop following me 'Bard'!"
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- michaelt 6y agoGoogle Trends search interest for 'Bard' has almost no spike for December 2019 when the Netflix Witcher series was released [1] (It does show a spike for the Netflix series 'Bard of Blood' which is an 'Indian espionage thriller' but the marketing for that doesn't show any medieval instruments) [1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=bard,bardcore,bard%20of%20blood https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...