Talk:Epic Rap Battles of History 53/@comment-186.45.108.129-20150210225100/@comment-26136579-20150222234247

It has the most weight of the forms of media. Not just in current relevance, but in long term as well. What are you more likely to have heard of, a blockbuster, or a show playing on The CW? It's not just the size of the audience, but the massive amount of advertising and campaigning that goes into a motion picture. It's because of the amount of money people put into

Speculate all you want about whether somebody would go to watch a movie or sty at home to watch television, but The Winter Soldier sold 32 million tickets in the US alone. Probably another hundred million overseas.

Arrow, at it's peak number of TV audience was viewed by 7.5 million people.

I'm not dismissing the Green Lantern films because "somebody on the internet said they were bad", but because it wasn't even watched by enough people to pay for the money it cost to make. But even that sold 14 million tickets in the US and likely another 26 million overseas. And that's why Green Lantern is more well known that Arrow. I'd venture to say half the people who do know Green Lantern first heard about him from the movies.

And memes are something entirely different that isn't really worth measuring. Or even possible to measure.