Yes, it is, as it is published in different bitcoin articles like this one: http://www.livebitcoinnews.com/will-anyone-care-bitcoin-gold-come-october-25th/

However, I don't think it would be successful with the presence of bitcoin cash which was embraced by a many BTC users before. the only problem that I can see here is how bitcoin gold will compete with bitcoin cash considering that bitcoin cash is the very first altcoin being forked from bitcoin. Whatever happens, I'm sure that these two altcoins forked from bitcoin will have a great impact to each other.