The other day I presented the radical claim that zombies may be just as hot, if not hotter than pirates right now. This was based on the popularity of movies like “Shaun of the Dead”, “28 Days Later” and the recent Andy Samburg video where he punches people in the face while eating and then does a zombie dance. I thought that perhaps pirates had reached their peak last year with the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie and the pirate Halloween costume crazy of 2006.
However - according to Google trends the term “pirates” has a much higher search volume than “zombies”:
At first I thought this could have been because “Pirates” is also the name of an baseball team. However, internationally, where baseball is not as popular, the results hold strong, “pirates” are the winner.
(Blue = pirates, Red = red)
It should be noted that the search rate for “zombies” is a bit more substantial in the US, UK, and Canada. The UK did come up with “28 Days Later” and “Shaun of the Dead”.
It’s official - pirates are still hotter than zombies right now.
