Obsessed Barbie Fans Propel Decade-Old Animated Series To The Top of Netflix Charts

Greta Gerwig’s latest movie really has the global audience in its bright-pink grasp: after watching the new Barbie with Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, people just can’t get enough of their charming world and run to Netflix to try and scratch the never-ending itch for life in plastic (which is, undoubtedly, fantastic).

With great surprise and amazement did we find out that over at Netflix, the decade-old animated series from Mattel, Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse, suddenly resurfaced and marched right into the middle of the platform’s Top-10 charts. As of now, Life in the Dreamhouse is confidently sitting in sixth place in the rating!

Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse is a mockumentary series that allows a sneak peek into the everyday lives of the plastic world celebrities — Barbie and Ken — as well as their close circle. The show’s humor is based on comparing and contrasting the doll-ish nature of the characters with their very humane day-to-day activities.

Even though Life in the Dreamhouse has four entire seasons that were streamed for two years (2012-2014), the series has never made it into any Netflix charts…until now. The massive surge in Barbie’s popularity led millions of people to watch the show, and we mean it: the decade-old animated series has 1.9M new views now.

This sure is insanity, but it only goes to highlight the immense success of Greta Gerwig’s movie even more. The new adventure comedy managed to captivate fans all around the globe, and after watching Barbie, they needed a fix of bright-pink colors in their lives, so they came to Netflix for help — and it provided.

We’d sure love to see the expressions on the Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse creators’ faces when they learned that, over a decade after its release, their animated series finally received all this attention. Were they delighted that it happened or annoyed that it happened thanks to someone else’s success?..

Source: Netflix