# Pop Culture Pulse Check **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 18, 2010, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-culture-pulse-check/557559 "2010-10-18T15:52:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 54
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-culture-pulse-check/557559/54 "2010-10-20T16:21:03Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > I’m not going to play that game. Suit yourself. > [@](#): > > So you can now get back to your game of “Neil Gaiman isn’t as famous as you think he is, neener neener neener.” Thank you. > [@spark240](#): > > What **DrDeth** actually said was that an _intelligent_ cultural observer would know Neil Gaiman–not necessarily that most people would. The post in question didn’t use the word “pop” at all, Yes, I’m aware of the wording of the first post of that thread of discussion, seeing as I’m the one who linked it for you. You’ll also note that I didn’t say \*\*DrDeth \*\*specifically called it pop culture at that point–merely that it started the chain of discussion. Here’s a more relevant post: > [@Hell's Kitchen, and it's viewers.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hells-kitchen-and-its-viewers/557096/65): > > However, his many award winning books and two well known films put him into mainstream writer. No, that has nothing to do with whether someone is a \*mainstream \*writer. Dan Brown, Danielle Steele, Stephen King, Stephanieyie Maeyerer whateverthefuck: \*those \*are mainstream writers. How \*good \*you are is not a measure of how \*mainstream \*you are, or you wouldn’t be able to find a single copy of a \*Twilight \*book in so much as a thrift store next to the ten-cent romances. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-culture-pulse-check/557559)._