Is Doctor Who still popular with the wider audience?
That’s what this topic is all about.
Feel free to share examples.
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I hardly see anyone here in Sweden talk about it and the Swedish Facebook group doesn’t have that many active members (might also be a Facebook problem). It has never been huge here but I feel like the interest is not that big. But I can be wrong.
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Same in Denmark.
Got a brother-in-law who occasionally watches when new stuff comes out, (apparently he’s got another Who fan friend that badgers him into it, I’ve never met that guy though)
And that’s it, I don’t think Doctor Who has ever been shown on TV here, and the only stuff on streaming is the D+ stuff and the Peter Cushing movies for some reason…
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So last week my Computing teacher (who is a massive Who fan) put on an animation he had made of a Dalek.
More than half the class didn’t know what it was.
Someone even said it was from the ‘hawk tuah’ podcast. 
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SVT (our public service) had New Who for a while but not that long. It was on Netflix when Netflix was good and that is where most people here saw it.
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The sad truth is that the younger generation watch far more Youtube than they do TV. Ask a kid who Mr Beast is and they’ll know. Show them a picture of Ncuti and you might get some recognition but beyond him, forget it.
It certainly isn’t the phenomenon it was during the Tennant era.
But that’s okay because it’s still there and people are still watching it. Most of my friendship group are fans but in school I know a lot of the staff don’t watch it much. I think there’s 4 or 5 max who watch it regularly when its on.
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In the US, or at least the people I’m around, most have heard of it but haven’t watched it or care about it much. People either don’t watch it or are big fans. Which is sad for me as a mega fan because I often get looked at like I’m insane 
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Newsflash…you are…
(We all are 
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You think you’ve seen insane… there are mere weeks or even days to a new Gallifrey release, I’ll show you insane 
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I’ve talked about this before, but it’s not a big thing in Finland either. There’s a Facebook group with occasional activity, and our public broadcaster (YLE) used to show every new series with only a couple of days delay from the BBC broadcast up until Flux. I’d say it was at its peak popularity around the 50th anniversary (Day of the Doctor was simulcast over here!), and then the interest gradually vaned. I don’t personally know anybody else over here who’d call themselves a fan. My dad is a casual watcher, but he’s not particualrly excited about the show these days.
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We’ve got quite a lot of fans here in China. More than I expected, that is. And they really go outta their way to recommend DW to other SF fans in comic con and stuff.
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For the longest time I’d never heard anyone talk about Doctor Who, but I would sometimes see people cosplaying it if I went to a con (mainly Weeping Angels, Ten, or Eleven).
Nowadays I am more familiar with the show, so I bring it up in conversation as an ice breaker. Since becoming a fan, I can count the number of people who have seen it on both hands but no one has seen Classic Who. Everyone has either seen only Ten&Eleven or Nine through Thirteen/Fourteen. And none are what I would consider superfans, so no EU material or anything extracurricular. Where I live has absolutely no Doctor Who scene, though, so it’s to be expected. There aren’t any fan groups and Doctor Who actors never come to any of the cons. A lot of people don’t know what the show is or it doesn’t interest them. I even spoke to an older sci-fi fan who loved Wars and Trek but had never heard of Doctor Who.
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What?!?! 
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It’s not widely known here in Brazil, but the fan community have been growing in the last few years. What surprises me the most is that the fandom is quite young. Me included, I am 21yo and started watching back in 2019/2020. A lot of people had started going through classic recently too.
It’s kinda a good moment for new watchers since the new series is right now at a public streaming service. I wouldn’t say many of us engage with the expanded universe (understandbly so. Not a lot of it is phisically available here. A lot, like the audios, are in euro, which end ups really, REALLY, expensive. It’s really hard to justify spending more than 10% of our minimum wage with new releases) so that’s why I talk a bit more with international fans.
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I’ve definitely noticed a bit of a decline in Doctor Who cosplayers in cons over the years since my first one in 2015. I know that, like most long-running shows, Doctor Who got a bit of a resurgence with covid, but I haven’t seen that reflected in real life. Most cosplayers I see are still just Ten with a fez.
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I don’t see a lot of Doctor Who fans at least from what I’ve seen, where I am in the US. I’ve had a few teachers that are interested in it and one or two friends but that’s about it.
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Also from the US, and I’ve met plenty of people who’ve heard of it, or used to watch it, but very few are currently fans (and even they tend to be surprised when I mention the existence of the expanded universe stuff)
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