Avatar fans who became depressed because they couldn't live in Pandora now get ready for the sequel

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When writer-director James Cameron's Avatar opened in theaters in December 2009, it started not only would be a record-breaking box office run, but it also started a surprising phenomenon.As more and more started flocking to theaters to see the blockbuster, reports surfaced about extremely depressed fans pining to live in the fictional world of Pandora, a phenomenon known as 'post-Avatar depression.'13 years later, the long-awaited sequel Avatar: The Way of Water hits theaters for sneak preview screenings on Thursday, with Variety speaking with many who are a part of a new Avatar fan community dubbed Kelutral.

Phenomenon: When writer-director James Cameron's Avatar opened in theaters in December 2009, it started not only would be a record-breaking box office run, but it also started a surprising phenomenon Keltural: 13 years later, the long-awaited sequel Avatar: The Way of Water hits theaters for sneak preview screenings on Thursday, with Variety speaking with many who are a part of a new Avatar fan community dubbed Kelutral (logo above)The post-Avatar depression phenomenon was first reported on by CNN in January 2010, just weeks after the film opened, with a site called Avatar Forums featuring a thread entitled 'Ways to cope with the depression of the dream of Pandora being intangible' - which had over 1,000 posts.A decade later, a group entitled Kelurtal was first formed on Discord in 2020, which began as a group for people interested in learning and conversing in the language used by the inhabitants of Pandora, known as the Na'vi.

Now it serves as a space for any and all conversations surrounding Avatar, and it was thrust into the spotlight last year when the group was featured on the HBO series How To With John.