Mediocre
Mediocre adjective - Of average to below average quality.
Popular and mediocre are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Popular" instead an adjective "Mediocre".
Nearby Word: mediocrity
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To these people, the only way a work can become popular is by being dumb, "safe" and middle-of-the-road, and therefore mediocre.
Source: It's Popular, Now It Sucks - Seasonal Rot: In-Universe, Calvin specifically remarks that it was just too popular to ever get cancelled no matter how mediocre it got (like The Simpsons).
- The BBC's The Musketeers achieved only mediocre ratings in the UK, but is much more popular overseas.
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