What's more/less popular than SpongeBob?

[SpongeyKid]

So this came to mind a couple of days ago and now I'd figure I could make a topic about it. What's more/less popular than SpongeBob? Any brand or show at all. And when you give a brand that's less popular, it has to be a relatively big brand/show, because obviously SpongeBob is more popular than shows like Robot and Monster :P

I've seen a lot of Spiderman and Frozen merch as of late...

 

[The Real Nostalgia Critic]

Adventure Time or Gravity Falls are shows probably more popular than SpongeBob.

 

[NoahsBlobs]

I've seen a lot of Frozen merch as of late...

ITS EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[BeanoSponge]

Adventure Time or Gravity Falls are shows probably more popular than SpongeBob.

Well SpongeBob has been getting better ratings.

Adventure Time (S6) - Mostly 1 or 2 million viewers for new episodes
SpongeBob (S9) - Mostly 3 or 4 million viewers for new episodes
Gravity Falls (S2) - Mostly less than a million viewers for new episodes

 

[iedasb]

More popular than SpongeBob? The Simpsons, I guess...

 

[TopSheep]

SpongeBob is more popular than bran flakes

 

[BaconUnicornsAndSpongeBob]

A good one would be Game of Thrones, or Hunger Games, or any adult-shows. :p

 

[TopSheep]

SpongeBob is more popular than fruit

 

[E.V.I.L]

SpongeBob honestly is nowhere near as popular as it used to be, if I have to say the brutal truth.
Things like Frozen have taken over lol

 

[TopSheep]

SpongeBob is more popular than Horseheads, NY

 

[WhoWantsStancakes]

Well SpongeBob has been getting better ratings.

Adventure Time (S6) - Mostly 1 or 2 million viewers for new episodes
SpongeBob (S9) - Mostly 3 or 4 million viewers for new episodes
Gravity Falls (S2) - Mostly less than a million viewers for new episodes

Gravity Falls received 3 to 4 million viewers per premiere when it was on Disney Channel.

 

[ataeaf]

South Park

 

[TopSheep]

SpongeBob is more popular than all of us


Combined

 

[MasiHosseini]

I agree with iedasb. The Simpsons...

 

[Popeyes Haunted Barnacles]

Family Guy and South Park are more popular than SB even now.

Edit: Welp! I'm wrong. It still beats out Adventure Time. If you type Gravity Falls in, then that show's way behind in the Google trends.

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F07vqnc%2C%20family%20guy%2C%20the%20simpsons%2C%20south%20park&cmpt=q&tz=

 

[TopSheep]

SpongeBob is more popular than the state of Vermont

 

[KingofOOO]

So... saying that Michael Jackson is more popular is out of the question?

 

[President Squidward]

Well SpongeBob has been getting better ratings.

Adventure Time (S6) - Mostly 1 or 2 million viewers for new episodes
SpongeBob (S9) - Mostly 3 or 4 million viewers for new episodes
Gravity Falls (S2) - Mostly less than a million viewers for new episodes

Well, Cartoon Network and Disney X D are channels not everyone gets on their cable or satellite package. Also, Gravity Falls and Adventure Time get more love while SpongeBob is popular with hatred because of Post-Movie.

 

[More]

I tried out a little of this and put a few similar things together. So I just compared some recent cartoons of the three networks, just to see. There were certain shows I excluded since they threw off everything.

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F0kfrr8y%2C%20%2Fm%2F053x0d%2C%20%2Fm%2F0t51jm7%2C%20%2Fm%2F0zrmpyx%2C%20%2Fm%2F012r4pqg&cmpt=q&tz=
https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F0r3t_0y%2C%20%2Fm%2F0k0vl4g%2C%20%2Fm%2F0rpgjy1%2C%20%2Fm%2F0gg8sxr%2C%20Clarence&cmpt=q&tz=

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F0h1frgv%2C%20%2Fm%2F0k2dmvr%2C%20%2Fm%2F0s8xrgp%2C%20%2Fm%2F0vpw97h%2C%20%2Fm%2F0fkwzs&cmpt=q&tz=

Oh, and here's SpongeBob put next to a few shows I think are or are becoming becoming global icons. It still comes out on top.

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F07vqnc%2C%20%2Fm%2F07c72%2C%20%2Fm%2F0280hsm%2C%20%2Fm%2F019nnl%2C%20%2Fm%2F0czdsgs&cmpt=q&tz=

Although maybe that's inaccurate since not everyone's gonna capitalize or use full names...

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=spongebob%2C%20the%20simpsons%2C%20adventure%20time%2C%20family%20guy%2C%20my%20little%20pony&cmpt=q&tz=


Conclusions:
Yeah I think it's safe to say it's not going down anytime soon although the things it doesn't show is how many people like it or not, although looking at the last chart, I think by 2017 MLP will catch up to it. And to Prez's liking Wander is definitely down in the dumps.

 

[Spider-man]

I think it's safe to say that Spongebob is more popular than characters like Daredevil.