The Hunger Games is too good for a normal fandom revival

polygon.com:

With a new Hunger Games movie on the way, many fans across social media hope that it ignites a full-on Hunger Games renaissance. After all, earlier this year the YA dystopian series experienced a small cultural resurgence when the movies landed on Netflix.

Across the internet — particularly on TikTok — fans started talking about the series with renewed fervor, posting about their favorite moments and diving into deeper analysis about the series. But it’s not quite the same transformative resurgence that other popular fandoms of the 2010s have experienced, for one key reason: The Hunger Games trilogy is actually too good for that.

With dozens and dozens of poor imitators that never quite matched the brilliance of the original books, it’s hard to remember just how evocative the Hunger Games trilogy was, with a sharp message about how the ruling class uses entertainment and propaganda to maintain the status quo and the smart yet subtle world-building that emphasizes that point. And while the movies quite frankly did a pretty solid job of adapting that message, it was overshadowed by marketing that veered sharply in the opposite direction (remember the Hanging Tree club remix?). And the fact is that when talking about something that is legitimately good and in-depth, there isn’t much room to add anything, and therefore not much transformative fandom experience happening.

This isn’t a bad thing. It’s just markedly different. There isn’t a big movement to reclaim the Hunger Games and turn it into something separate, the way there is for Harry Potter and Twilight. In the case of Harry Potter, fans sought to distance the story from J.K. Rowling’s bigoted views; meanwhile, a big part of the Twilight memes on TikTok, Tumblr,