I have a theory that the more lore a franchise has, the more of an autistic fanbase it has. I made a graphic about it.

Factorio autistic hyperfocus gang represent

Can't.

Too busy.

Not enough iron.

The factory must grow.
I'm not autistic. I just really like trains. Choo choo motherfucker.
- Blaine is a Pain
Holy shit am I am autistic? I fucking love factorio.
- Maybe. Maybe not. Factorio really tends to scratch the constant-stimulation dopamine button that makes autistic people quite happy and get into hyperfocus, so it's one of those really really close venn diagrams...
- First you build your miners. Then your factories. Oh no, a bottleneck. Gotta optimize. Good, let's scale production up. More building, but then another bottleneck! Optimize.
  
  Occasionally shoot biters because ain't nobody got time for alien bastards ruining my optimization experience.
Hey, some of us are ADD too!
- Me, with ASD and ADHD: "Porque no los dos?"
Am autistic

Love me some good trains

Love playing Factorio

Simple as

Are you really trying to say kingdom hearts has a less autistic fanbase than harry potter?

From an outsider's view, I'd think they're close. What I wanna know is how Kirby has more lore than My Little Pony. He's a blob with a one-word vocabulary.
- What I wanna know is how Kirby has more lore than My Little Pony. He's a blob with a one-word vocabulary.
  
  He's got a surprising amount of lore attached. He's also canonically way more powerful than you'd expect
- He's the literal reincarnation of capital-G God. Also there are other reincarnations of God running around the universe. Kirby lore is... unusual
- Kirby lore goes DEEP - he’s canonically a god
- Now i wanna see Kirby's lore, hope there's some cool 1 hour or longer video about it somewhere there
Kingdom Hearts as a franchise is autistic, but the adult fans know it's fucking stupid. Meanwhile, HP adult fans don't realise how weird it is to put your Hogwarts house in your profile bio, because HP is mainstream, and they're autistic.

This plot does not show a correlation, it's just a cluster.

This really graph really does not show any statistical connection between the two parameters XD

Obligatory xkcd: https://m.xkcd.com/1725/

I know it's a meme, but still.

Thank you. I found it to show a data cloud scatter and no linear regression. Just because there’s a few near the origin, doesn’t mean you can connect a line to them and call it a day.

Avatar The Last Airbender has the same amount of lore as Star Trek? How are we measuring this?

By randomly positioning logos on a chart.
Out of their ass, clearly.
Standard lore units, duh
I don't think OP knows what "lore" means lol. GTA ≈ ATLA ≈ Star Trek? DESTINY > DR WHO?!?!

To put TF2 so low when it has Abraham Lincoln as the first pyro is a sin

To put Minecraft above it is a joke of it's own

I have no idea where TF2 should fall, but I will say that for a simple-seeming blocky building game, Minecraft has a shocking amount of lore.
- tf2 has an entire comic serious lmfao

I have a theory that most people posting to this community have no clue what a meme is.

what do you think it is?
Then go show us how it's done, ya ponce
- Per your definition, I'm memeing right now.
  
  Edit: People don't like being shown that calling everything memes is dumb. Noted.

This is the dumbest thing I've seen all week

Bionicle meanwhile is 2 ft to the upper right off the screen

Was glad someone else noticed the distinct lack of Bionicle
Ah, a fellow brother of the mata-nui sect.
I already expected it to be off the scale.

Warhammer has more lore than the rest of the chart together.

The "Amount of Lore" measures across the board are entirely bullshit. Warcraft, LOTR, Star Wars, and Warhammer are all in an entirely different league from the rest of the things here, yet somehow Warcraft is like in the middle? Lol.

Kirby has lore?

Kirby is a god or something.
I was thinking the same thing. Someone's gotta clue me in on the deep Kirby lore.
Oh honey

edit: although to be clear, it's still too high on this list. The lore depth gauge has a lot of very questionable choices

I both love and hate Factorio is on here. Lol

The factory must grow
It's definitely the outlier. Zero lore. Maximum obsession.
I feel called out by it on a personal level

Team Fortress 2 has the most autistic lore imaginable that it is literally a crime for it to be where it is on this scale.

Very scientific

Destiny fans on the left? C'mon man.

Because the fanbase is autistic or because it has no lore? I've only played the first one and it basically did not have a story.
- The first one, there is a ton of very poorly communicated lore.

Star Wars has too much broad appeal to be that high on the autism list

You wouldn't say that if you had a conversation with somebody about lightsaber forms. EU contains MASSIVE autism. Filoni stuff is pretty autistic too and that's the new core of the franchise.
- The problem is measuring the absolute amount of autism and not the amount of autism relative to the fan base.
I don't know how anyone can say that Star Wars has more lore than Star Trek. They both have about the same number of movies and books, but Star Trek has hundreds more episodes of TV to expand the lore even further.

"Fans" (the entire set) skews autistic. Almost by definition.

Some even spin around their own axis

The last season of GoT was so bad that it's not even on this graph.

The chart seems to show that autistic people prefer things the less real they are

Well yeah. The more unnecessary nonsense there is to know that won't ever benefit me in real life AND to be an escape from reality, the better.

I hate how close factorio is to among us, also tf2 has tonnes of lore, it should be higher

Genshin shouldn't be anywhere near Pokemon, eesh.

Ok but CoD Zombies actually has quite a lot of lore

I still remember all the hate threads on modern warfare because of how warzone messed with the canon of the series. Haven't seen such an autistic fan base not sure why it's so low
- Probably the fact that, despite any lore or canon, 90% of gameplay across the typical modes (campagn, multiplayer, survival) is mindless gunfighting

Mlp, minecraft and pokemon should be all the way to the right and among us should be little more to the right. Other than that, spot on.

As an ex Protection Paladin I can confirm. I was completely obsessed with Warcraft lore when I was playing the game. The « Time travel in a parallel universe » BS killed it though.

I know I'm not supposed to take it seriously but how the hell does Elder Scrolls have more lore than Warcraft? Warcraft has so much lore there's books to compile the lore that are also not definitive or accurate because there's more lore.

Ooh, the lore in Elder Scrolls goes way deep. I mean, there are more exotic concepts most know which are not really discussed in games like Lunar Lattice, Godhead and CHIM, but if you dig deeper, you're in for a real ride. Most of it goes way over my head, but concepts like time travel and AI from the future, Amaranth, and lastly, the Elder Scroll themselves about which Septimus Signus made simplified, but not inaccurate, in-game comments, are much discussed topics among the deep lore fandom. Plus all the more mundane stuff behind the scenes--dreughs, ayleids, Akavir and it's many inhabitants, sloads, Hist and their origin (discussed in Infernal City/Lord of Souls, but more questions raised than answers given. Hint: the Sleeping Tree is related to Hist and the rumor Ysolda dismisses as "nonsense" is literally true.) etc.

You could write a heavy tome about the history and deeds of the Dunmer people alone, let alone all the other events that happen(ed) in that universe.
- I'm not saying there isn't lore but there are 30 novels for Warcraft as well as nearly 20 years of WoW and another 10 or so of Warcraft. All of that before touching Hearthstone, the tabletop games, or comics.
  
  I'm not accusing Elder Scrolls of being lacking but that Warcraft as a franchise is absolutely massive.
In Elder Scrolls, those books are already built into the games.
- I'm not sure if you're joking here

Sonic should be way, way higher.

This is X-Philes erasure, and I won't stand for it.

Just did an 8 hour shift playing Factorio instead of working. Should get my self checked out.

missing the bioncle lore or maybes its so high up its off screen lmfao

Anyone else feel like this is just a map of holes to fall into? I'm looking forward to that Kirby one...

I heard that Kirby sucks

D&D is not because of the Lore its because of crunching numbers!!! (my autistic friend who lives P&P in General and also love to optimize his Charakters)

My Little Pony FTW 🙌

I feel like AT should be higher up. I've seen some crazy serious discussions about characters who say "what the bjork" 4 times an episode.

Star Trek has a large autistic fanbase? I mean I know we're a bunch of nerds but...

If you hang around the communities you'll notice a lot of people who admire Spock or Data in terms of relating to their emotional struggles and relating to the broader community. It depends on where you hang out but yeah, there's a lot of autism around Star Trek, and it's just the genuine kind of people who are neurodivergent.
- Yes.

So why has Factorio less lore and more autists?

Trains.
I think its more depth and emergent gameplay intruigue autistic people. Lore is a type of depth people can enjoy so games with it make the world more interesting to explore. But also complex mechanics also work for the same reasons.

Dwarf Fortress is probably a good example of this.
- No, i mean, it's contrary to what the title says.

You put call of duty on the wrong side

I've been playing factorio for a while. Totally autistic. Based

For the Emperor!!!

As an IDW comics enjoyer, I love Sonic the Hedgehog being on this graph.

That is all.

Cracktorio. I'll never touch that again.

deltarune should be here and on the top of the list

(undertale too tbh)

But, Undertale is already on here. And you can pretty much lump the two together.

Counterpoint: Minecraft

I feel Marvel needs to be further to the right, and Spiderman needs its own separate category.

I think given how massively popular globally marvel is. The ratio of autistic fans would be quite small even if the numbers are large. Maybe pre MCU I'd put it more to the right.

Not pictured: FFXVI. Shits got so much lore packed in it, the game literally has a special pause button to read its own Wikipedia of what's on screen so you're not completely lost. Even the devs of the game admitted they didn't fully understand all the lore.

I love it!

I was certain this was going to be about hockey. Kind of disappointed actually...

Where does Zelda land on this graph?

It's complicated to talk about the lore of Zelda games, the Venn diagram of the lore of the game of that series is the Olympics logo.

I see pones i go yay!

so unfortunate that neigh doesn't work for the pun here.
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  Sorry couldn't really figure out what to say

I'm in this picture, and I don't like it.