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> I’m pretty sure Messi is soccer, but I only know that because the latter came up in conversations about Apple

I don't know how you can say this with a straight face. Yours is an absurdly niche viewpoint! I swear, sometimes this forum is like Marie Antoinette.

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In Europe, LeBron is definitely not a household name. Maybe if you are into sports. Ronaldo and Messi on the other hand, are someone most people will know.

It's really regional. Where I live, baseball is the primary sport and basketball (primarily NBA) is a distant second. Many but considerably less than half of young people know who Messi is but only because he just won a world cup and even that memory is fading fast since most people didn't watch it. You'd struggle to find anyone under 60 who hadn't heard of Zuck.

That’s the US perspective. But globally the final of the World Cup (which Messi played) was seen by more than 1.5B people (compared to <200M in the Super Bowl). It is a big name.

> That’s the US perspective.

No, it's not. Did you really think baseball was the most popular sport in America? I was talking about where I live (Taiwan).

Also, it's a safe bet that more than 1.5 billion people just between India and China have heard of Zuck given how often he's been front page media in both countries.

What the hell are you talking about? I am dirt poor and have barely heard of either

> I remember playing JRPGs late into the night growing up and reading GamePro magazine.

From another of your comments, it sounds like you're middle class. Or, at least, a working class American which is quite privileged from a global standpoint.

Either way, you're hardly a representative sample of one (1).

Nice to encounter a fellow PKD fan, of course. ;)

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