Tumblr userDestination Toasthas done a sight of statistical analyses of fandom — all of it very telling — but the latest analyzes how the sort of Revelation in fiction have change over time . We ’re worried about a lot more now than we used to be .
The chart below cover the different kinds of apocalypses and how often they ’ve pour down over the decades . It ’s probably not a coincidence that warfare spikes during World War II and during the 80s — especially if the LXXX stats include nuclear state of war stories .
Also , wow were people in the 1900s worried about the sunlight just giving up and toss off us all .
The number are , Destination Toast take , probably not solely precise . They ’re base off of Wikipedia ’s list of revelatory and post - apocalyptic fable :
For information , I used Wikipedia’sList of apocalyptical and post - apocalyptical fiction . ( See the clause for definitions ) . It ’s unfortunately deplorably uncomplete ; a lot of my faves are n’t on there , especially from late years ( and you could see the drop-off - off in number of works per class during the 2010 ’s in the final graph — I totally do n’t believe that is accurate .
Take this with a large caryopsis of salt — and please goadd any missing books / movie / showsto the list on Wikipedia ! The apocalypse fandom clearly has a band to add here ( especially , I suspect , in term of fiction by women , POC , and non - Western / non - English voice communication author ) , and I will be doing the same .
As noted , it ’s voiceless to believe the drop off in the sum for recent work :
It ’s been rise pretty systematically , so it ’s improbable that we ’ve just suddenly stopped write , filming , and toy game about the Book of Revelation . We have , however , really endue some heavy fearfulness in wars , eco - causes , and disease . astonishingly , the sunshine takes up a smaller proportion of end of the Earth tales these solar day :
you’re able to see more graphs and the raw datum gain and munch by Destination Toasthere .
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