Why was society more dismissive of the sci fi genre during the 2000s and early 2010s?

[AstroCadet69]

It seemed like that during the early 2010s people either saw the sci fi genre as something that only kids or people who lived in basements enjoyed.

People used to think that about fantasy during the 80s and 90s but the massive success of movies like Lord of The Rings, Harry Potter, The Hobbit, and Game of Thrones seemed to have gotten rid of the snobbishness towards the fantasy genre by the 2010s.

However the sci fi genre has made a little progress but isn't nearly as respected as the fantasy genre.

I'm hoping the new Dune movies do for sci fi what LOTR, Harry Potter, and Game of Thrones did for fantasy.

Was America's dismissive attitudes toward the sci fi genre during the 2000s caused by the J.J. Abrams Star Trek movies and the bad Star Wars sequel trilogy as well as something apparently called the "Syfy Channel"?

Perhaps we should have gotten a sci fi movie series like Denis Villeneuve's Dune movies instead of the J.J. Abrams "NuTrek".

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Did you really just make this same thread again?

 

[Drathnoxis]

Did you really just make this same thread again?

Back in the early 2010s it was frowned upon to necro threads and was preferred that a person make a new one instead.

 

[Elvis Starburst]

Back in the early 2010s it was frowned upon to necro threads and was preferred that a person make a new one instead.

But to make what is essentially the exact same one?

 

[Drathnoxis]

But to make what is essentially the exact same one?

But was a thread exactly like this made during the 2000s and early 2010s? That's the real question.

 

[Elvis Starburst]

But was a thread exactly like this made during the 2000s and early 2010s? That's the real question.

I'd be hard pressed to believe otherwise honestly. I completely doubt this is a real person making these threads

 

[Phoenixmgs]

Sturgeon's law of "90% of everything is crap" was because of the sci-fi genre.

 

[Cicada 5]

It seemed like that during the early 2010s people either saw the sci fi genre as something that only kids or people who lived in basements enjoyed.

People used to think that about fantasy during the 80s and 90s but the massive success of movies like Lord of The Rings, Harry Potter, The Hobbit, and Game of Thrones seemed to have gotten rid of the snobbishness towards the fantasy genre by the 2010s.

However the sci fi genre has made a little progress but isn't nearly as respected as the fantasy genre.

I'm hoping the new Dune movies do for sci fi what LOTR, Harry Potter, and Game of Thrones did for fantasy.

Was America's dismissive attitudes toward the sci fi genre during the 2000s caused by the J.J. Abrams Star Trek movies and the bad Star Wars sequel trilogy as well as something apparently called the "Syfy Channel"?

Perhaps we should have gotten a sci fi movie series like Denis Villeneuve's Dune movies instead of the J.J. Abrams "NuTrek".

Probably because of the way sci-fi fans tended to act.