Mother of Dragons -- drinker of Starbucks?
Eagle-eyed “Game of Thrones” fans noticed a drink that strongly resembled one of the Seattle coffee giant’s familiar coffee cups sitting on a table in front of Queen Daenerys Targaryen in Sunday night’s episode. And the incongruous paper cup has launched an Unsullied army’s worth of reactions on social media, as Starbucks is completely out of place in HBO’s Medieval drama where knights and Wildling warriors drink out of goblets and animal horns.
— janex May 6, 2019 But the related memes that sprang forth may mean big money for Starbucks SBUX, +0.01% . Indeed, “Game of Thrones,” in its eighth and final season, is the most popular show in HBO’s history. It topped “The Sopranos” when it hit 20 million viewers in 2014, reaching 25.7 million at its Season 6 peak, Variety reported. And “The Long Night” episode depicting the epic Battle of Winterfell last week drew 17.8 million views across all platforms, making it the most watched HBO episode ever, while inspiring a record 7.8 million–plus tweets.
Indeed, a Twitter spokeswoman told MarketWatch that Starbucks tweets were running at 10 times their average hourly tweets on Monday morning. “There have been more than 310,000 tweets today, and I’d say on an average normal day there are usually less than 100,000 tweets,” she said.
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