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So there was a recent Touhou popularity poll on Nicovideo. The results are startling, truly startling.

I'm thinking that popularity is not very static AT ALL for ANY CHARACTER except like Sakuya or something because the results are startling, truly startling. Here are the results, though you might not see it if you're not signed in, and it generates random images from the character's pixiv tags so it can sometimes be NOT SAFE FOR WORK. Just a warning ya'll.

I'll list them from first to eightieth. (yes EIGHTIETH, and for good reason!)

( Results here if nicovideo sucks )
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HOLY SHIT WHAT THE FUCK SUPRRISES: Momiji in third. MOMIJI? I like Momiji. I thought she was a relatively popular character, like mid-tier...not GOD TIER. NOT PLAYABLE TIER. NOT SCARLET DEVIL MANSION TIER. WHAT THE FUCK.
Keine in EIGHTH!? Since when is Keine the most popular Imperishable Night character!? WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN. I like her though, but she was like low-tier in popularity, ALL OF EIENTEI AND MOKOU MINUS EIRIN are always thought of as more popular than her. WHAD.
UNZAN is the MOST POPULAR UFO character. Even more than Ensemble Darkhorse Kogasa. This is where I suspect this is a joke popularity poll. I can't think of any other reason for such showings. RAN >>>> YUKARI!? Daiyousei IN TWENTIETH!? I knew people liked the unpopularity of the Aki sisters to make them popular, BUT NOT BY THIS MUCH! Kaguya is more popular than Reisen lol. RIN KAENBYOU. I repeat ORIN, RIN KAENBYOU has overtaken KOISHI and UTSUHO. This does NOT COMPUTE. I too like her but wow, groundbreaking. O_O Byakuren, Murasa, and Ichirin are shoved together and both Murasa and Ichirin are NOT the least popular UFO characters. In fact Nue is worse than them. In fact SHOU is worse than them.

NAZRIN WHY ARE YOU IN FIFTY-NINTH WHAT IS THIS

Okay let us breathe. Breeeeeathe. 

I however am not surprised that SDM is high. I'm actually seeing that they are more overrated than I thought they were. I knew they were to some extent, but this is ridiculous. Get rid of everything except SDM and there will probably still be the same amount of fans. That's how ridiculous it is. This isn't even just the main SDM characters. People like Koakuma have a good showing. DAIYOUSEI is far higher than normal, and even Rumia isn't slouching, combine this with Cirno's might and NONE of the characters in that game is forgotten. ZERO. Pushing so many amazing characters back, and I simply shake my head.

I get the whole joke of the Aki sisters' unpopularity but why is their unpopularity making them popular. That's like Cirno being popular due to a meme...and suddenly I am no longer surprised. Again it pushes back some pretty great characters. They should not be more popular than Kanako at least, who is the sixth stage boss in the game. I think she's the least popular in that game now, besides Hina. That's REALLY SAD for a sixth stage boss. REALLY REALLY SAD. Even Kaguya isn't in the same boat. How did Yukari drop so much? That's pretty surprising as well. Extra stage bosses have really lost their popularity, every single one of them fell. EVERY ONE OF THEM. (Except maybe Suwako) 

I really think this poll is messed up. For example Tojiko is a Ten Desires character I thought was getting popular what with the number of images she was getting (not quite to Futo's extent) but SHE'S NOT EVEN ON THIS LIST. She's not even EIGHTIETH. Mamizou, who I thought was the least popular IS on this list. Then again I suppose every nicovideo visitor isn't an artist or something, but these facts are as surprising as the theory of relativity going out the window! I guess Touhou characters are like the stock market. They can go up and they can go down, so unless you invest shittons of money into Sakuya you won't be making much money. The thing is EVERYONE invests money into Sakuya so you don't earn much in the first place, like gambling. Everyone bets on the best horse, and most often the best horse wins, but since everyone bet on it they don't get much money. Now if you bet on that white horse named Momiji no one gave a damn about, you'd have won the jackpot of a trillion dollars. A literal trillion dollars.

So how does this hold up for my favourite characters? Keine is apparently my most popular favourite character. (I kind of expected Mokou or Satori or Byakuren or something) Nazrin is my least and Shou isn't far behind. What the hell happened you two. I was wondering why I kept running into so few new Nazrin/Shou images. (there are more MURASA IMAGES coming out than them!) A quality Shou picture a week is getting somewhat difficult to maintain. I think I might go ahead with my Ask Shou tumblr due to this troubling result, it's not like she's popular in the west either.

Anyway Murasa didn't go anywhere, Nue plummeted (WHY), Koishi fell (WHHHHYYYY), Shou and Nazrin are bottom-feeders (WWWHHHHHHYY!?), Byakuren has plummeted ridiculously as well (WHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYY!?), even Satori has dropped tenfold (WWWHHHHHHHHYYYYY!?) Mokou has fallen crazily (long-running gag here) but at least Keine shot up! YAY KEINE. That's right! Who cares about the rest of them, at least Keine is popular!

.... ;_;

I think I lost a lot of money in my Touhou stocks today. (though they aren't official like the yearly ones. So I won't react quite as greatly as I would for those polls...so we'll see. We'll see...) 

(as for those outside the top ten, Utsuho, Yukari, and Yuyuko have fell a ton too, Parsee's still where she is though and Futo is top TD dog but that isn't saying much at the moment) 

That is all. I am now supporting Shou/Nazrin ten times harder.