Why is German pop culture less popular worldwide than American, British and Japanese?

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Ka-pi96 said:

chakkra said:

But, couldn't the same be said about almost any other country?

Now, I think US and UK have the language advantage. I mean, English is the 2nd (or 3rd?) most spoken language in the world. So there is that.

It's probably 1st actually. It loses out to Mandarin (and possibly Spanish) on native speakers. But with non-native speakers I wouldn't be surprised if it takes #1 fairly easily given how it's typically the language learned in non-English speaking countries.

And even a lot of people in China or Japan would not be considered English speakers but they went to school learning it for years. Also is that mandarin Chinese is a group of a bunch of different Chinese languages whilst English is usually just English with minor differences.