• HikingVet@lemmy.ca
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    Yeah, and the huge push that the major studios did what it always does, create a huge fuck ton of soulless corporate versions of it. Which inevitably led to the decline and ruin of the genre.

    Real hard to get decent versions now with out them using some gimmick because they want it to stand out like 28 days later, and then just absolutely wiffing it.

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    Going purely off of memory, I genuinely think it was around COVID that the cultural popularity started to really die off, at least in the Anglosphere?

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    Yes. It was trendy, and then dropped. I think of it “Walking Dead” fever. Sort of like the attraction of the CSI series, hospital shows, cops shows, etc.

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    Oh sure, a lot of us can remember when COD: Black Ops, Left 4 Dead, Zombieland, Walking Dead and World War Z had our collective attention within that span of roughly 10 years.

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    Sure do, I ended up going to a zombie apocalypse survival training and spending a few hours with city kids leading to tie simple knots (for a rope ladder).