Unless I overlooked one, the most popular Gorilla is Louie at #393. By contrast, the least popular Cat is Tabby at #412.

Surprising no one 😉

Racism

I love Vesta the Sheep

​@@__-be1gkHow...?

Raymond tries too hard.

By mid 2020 half of players had enough of him i bet

Raymond is super overrated. There are more cats and villagers in general more interesting than him.

​@@moonamoonzagreed there are so many more interesting villagers (he's literally just a angry looking cat with glasses and white hair )

Checking the full list, he's #35, so he's up there, just not quite top 25. My guess is that there's a sizable amount of backlash to his popularity, bringing him down a bit.

Another moral of the story: Cats rule

Loll

I like Louie, Hans and Boone but yeah the others are mostly bad

Cats rules: Meow

I had Claus in my village for about a month. At 1st I didn’t like him much. But he began to grow on me . He was real. Then one day he left and my village felt empty.

Same here, I love Keaton!

no way he literally isnt even ugly

Same, he deserves more love.

He's cool

I like him because he looks like Kass!

It's really tragic how controversial the whole thing can be because on one hand, Japan wouldn't know about the blackface minstrel shows designed to mock black people and thus why it's so offensive, but on the other hand, various animes showed they don't have much respect for black culture either way as black characters are often depicted as goofy, loud and annoying, having the main character often make comments on how annoying they are as if that's the joke. It kind of got better over the years, but the deliberate censorship of black culture in stuff imported to Japan (removing Disco from Ratchet and Clank, replacing it with techno) makes it feel very much like the ganguro might just as much have been mocking blacks by pretending to be them as a "counter culture" thing. Making us appear "wild and radical". Them darkening their skin to get that effect isn't necessary to be a counter culture and would only serve to make the people dislike black culture even more, when that's not how we are. Thus why it's still offensive to this day. BUT as I said, Japan has gotten better with depicting black characters more respectfully, but unfortunately, the culture that surrounds anime still pushes for the racism to thrive as it appeals to generally sheltered nerds who see it as a way to destroy what they personally find "annoying".

@@MarioMastar Since I don't watch much anime, are those black characters always black in the original Japanese, or usually only in the English localizations? Since I at least know that in the very first Persona on PS1, Masao Inaba, who was named Mark for the original PS1 English release and is himself rather annoying, was actually purely Japanese in the Japanese version just like everyone else, but was made black for the English release. Plus it may also be simply from loud, enthusiastic, and usually annoying being a Japanese stereotype of Americans in general regardless of skin color; like Terry Bogard from Fatal Fury, and I think Lieutenant Surge is also usually rather loud. The only non-American black character I remember having ever seen in purely Japanese media is Yasuke, though; the real-life African man who came to serve Oda Nobunaga. I at least know that Yasuke is very much celebrated and a point of intrigue for the Japanese people especially from his strength and tall stature. Either way, though, with Japan still being rather cynical toward anything not originally from Japan, it is unfortunately not much of a surprise that their media can be rather disrespectful to others. No matter what the case is, I would still love to see more people in general respect those who are different regardless of nationality, skin color, or any other difference.

@@MarioMastar I'm black and I mostly agree. One of the reasons why my anime intake has decreased by literally 99% in the last few years is because I began to realize how indirectly racist a good portion of it is.(A lot of it is also just problematic in general, but that's a discussion for another time.) You don't notice it when you're younger, but after a while you do. The part of your comment I didn't agree with is that I think a lot of Japanese people do realize that blackface is problematic, they just don't care? Every few years there's a controversy about something blackface or race related happening in Japan big enough for me to hear about. It happens enough for people to know by now. The 'culture' of anime is part of it, but I also think a lot of people(from all countries, of all races) are just racist as hell towards black people. It's so ingrained in society that most people don't realize it. Everything else you said was spot on imo.

@@jellojiggler1693 Yeah… plus the blatant sexism. If I see female characters treated as walking reproductive organs with jiggle animation as their main character trait, I‘m not gonna spend my time on it

@@Daniel_Coffman Normally they are black from the beginning, or at least that is what I have seen over the years as a european anime and manga fan. There have even been cases like the US 4kids (who don‘t exists anymore) version of one piece, who edited an originally poc background character to be white 💀 (To be fair he already had kiiinda racist vibes to him from the start with his big lips and big eyes etc. (The original scene was from 1999). But we are talking about a character who never even appeared in the manga and had no voice lines or anything, but they apparently felt the need to change his skintone for the US release, idk what their reason was for this weird change) But also I want to add characters who could pass as white bc of their light skintone, but have more african/ african-asian features like very curly black hair etc such as Usopp (also one piece). He was played by a poc actor in the recent netflix liveaction series, and while the actor had a deeper skintone than the character, it fit the character way more since he was poc from the beginning in the sense of his features, but while being light-skinned? If you know what I mean. So in the end I personally only heard from characters who already were black in the original, or were intended to be black but weirdly with a lighter skin tone, probably because of Japan‘s (or almost all of Asia‘s) obession with very light skin… They have improoved a bit since then, but still need to do better when it comes to black and poc characters. And women and girls. And queer people. 🙃 sigh…

I was gagged when I saw it lol

the scream i scrumt

that was such a serve

I'm sure there's so many people who thought that was actually her 💀

Literally! Loved to see it in the video ❤

He is too popular so some people definitely voted against him because of that

i feel like at the height of new horizons' poupularity he would have cleared but the years since have seen a lot of people think he's overrated bc of all the hype he got tbf

@@KrissyBlues100% agree. I think he got too popular, to the point where he circled back to being somewhat loathed by people annoyed with some of the absurd behavior being shown by diehard Raymond fans.

@@thunderlina3237 It's kind of baffling honestly, he's just a silly little guy in a business suit. I feel like the reaction either way was bizarrely extreme lol

Turns out everybody does not love Raymond

AAAAH, OLIVIA IS AWEASOME

Same one of my favourite villagers is Hopper, I got him in New Leaf and he wasn't the nicest at first but like I feel more of a reward once you get to know them and become good friends with them it's more of a challenge but it's fun in my opinion. He was the first villager to give me his photo.

Had to Google her as I'm not familiar, her design is so fun though

Right?! The cranky ones are so funny, I play the city folk one and she’s so mean sometimes but it’s really funny too 😂

I tend to not get along with Snooty villagers, had Mallary and she kept badmouthing the others in Wild World ☹️ but they tone it down so much in ACNH

For real!! I love Keaton and he has a special place in my heart ✨️

Keaton is on my island. He was my first campsite villager. I can’t wait for him to leave !!!

​@@Hmc_Playz Okay why though?

Personally I think it's just first impressions, I really like his colours and style

Keaton is so cute and funny!! I love his colors. ❤❤

Glad to see another Rosie fan! :D I got introduced to her yours truly by Pocket Camp, around when i still played it. She left quite and impression to me, and even more during the Ac Movie. She quickly become my fav character of all time! -^v^- So when we were getting close to the top 5 popular villagers, i was losing hope and started thinking she wouldn't make the cut. Glad i was proven wrong, i literally popped off once her name was called out. She deserved the win -^w^-

Yeah I love Rosie too but I think your worry is why I feel the list is a bit "biased" (mathematically, not personally). The random nature of the choices would mean characters who appeared more favorably would be picked more, but I just don't hear people talk about Rosie in particular compared to other really popular animals like Marshal. Definitely top 10, maybe even top 3, but what really throws me off is Tangy being number 2.....I never hear people talk about Tangy....EVER. I think she's cute too, but I think people picked her because she looks like an orange and not particularly because she's everyone's "Favorite".

@@MarioMastar Well I mean I think of course it's biased right? This was a simple popularity contest not an objective gauge of villager aesthetics, so villagers people liked more would raise to the top. As far as Tangy goes, I dunno she was pretty popular in the trading communities I was involved in

@@MarioMastar i mean, a million voters is likely to cancel out most random bias.

@@novameowwwWas it 1 million voters or one million VOTES? Big difference, that. With hundreds of villagers, 1 million votes is much easier to come by, especially with multiple quick rounds of this or that. I’m fairly certain it’s one million VOTES and not VOTERS as she said she had to remove 400,000 fake votes… That one person generated. So clearly the sample size isn’t HUGE. I don’t know if I consider Tom Scott’s entirely accurate either but he had more traffic on his, at least.

This^. I kept the ones I always felt like talking to from the beginning of the game. In fact, I have a soft spot for cranky villagers because I sensed some kind of bonding development, especially on GC and WW where hoo boy did they swear a lot more than in the newer titles. Whenever I see a GC villager coming back to me, is like they found their way to home. While I'm sad to see some of them rank up based on aesthetic only, I'm happy to se that in the most popular tier there are still a bunch of classic villagers. Plain design, simple, just the first ones you've ever encountered and became attached to.

Same, i rly like Clyde and Hippeaux

it’s good for recruiting new players, so many more people post about the villagers because getting a good one is like an accomplishment

And a lot of the "ugly" villagers have small but devoted fanbases, too. I'm a Biff girlie, I will undermine my aesthetic for my hippo guy.

@@pinkcupcake4717 For some reason, everyone seems to hate on the anteater villagers but I find them adorable

I adore Barold! He and I are birthday twins

He was my original Nextdoor neighbour in city folk. Today I learned how hated he is

You mean ChOpS

As someone how currently has Boyd on their island and was given a recipe from him the first time i spoke to him which hasn’t happened to me in a while leads me to get in a ring with any Boyd haters

love him too

complaining resets the thing you complain about right? (such as complaining about clothings resets then to their original right

@@dogeater5795 Correct

harrys my favorite too!! :'D

@@mzvermin I still don't have him on my island, but I won't give up (I had him on a previous island but I had to get a new switch and forgot the island transfer)

My favorite literally IS 25. Whitney JUST making the cut. She's the whole reason I fell in love with this game (even thoug she was quite mean in WIld world, she was literally the first villager to MOVE in. But shoutouts to my bro SPORK who randomly was my first villager for every game except New Horizons. He's my G!

For me it's Stitches. Glad he made the top 25. 😁

OMG SAME I LOVE MOLLY SHE IS MY CHILD I ALSO HAVE HER AMIIBO SHE IS SOOO CUTE EEE

There's a lot of bias in the results (mathematic bias, not personal bias), as given you're given a random choice of 2 villagers and have to pick one over the other, there's a chance that some villagers simply didn't appear often at all, or appeared with match ups that were obviously going to make them lose or push others higher. (like if out of 100 times Jane showed up, 70 times she was paired with Audie or Marshall and only 30 times she was paired with more middle of the road villagers, but only like 2 times was she paired with "uglier" villagers like Dobie or Harry, then it'd seem like she was only liked 2-5/100 times while Audie and Marshall were wildly popular. So while it seemed like the curve would fit a proper line, there's enough error where the Gorillas simply were overlooked because they got unlucky. Similarly at the top, I get Rosie's really cute and easily top 10, but seeing her as number 1 is interesting. As Margie wasn't even top 25 and she was also the main protagonist in the movie, and Fang outshined Whitney by several votes but he only appeared in City Folk and on. Personally as I mentioned elsewhere, a simple "Star, check, empty, minus, and X" system would give more accurate results. check and minus are + and - 1 respectively. Star and X are "Favorite and least favorite" which would be weighted to show which characters were truly actual favorites and not just "liked by the most people", as well as true least favorites and not just "disliked". The list would probably look similar, but you'll get far more accurate results for the extreme cases. Marshal not being top 10 is odd given people gave LOTs of money for Marshall, and i didn't see the other male cat with the hipster glasses who's name escapes me that people dove for as well. As well while some of them are striking like Lucky or Tangy, I don't really imagine they're that many people's "Favorite" as much as a "nice to have" or "noteworthy". Meaning people probably only picked them because they remembered them or they stood out, rather than being a particular favorite. As you can see this fascinates me as well though! Very interesting video!

​statistically speaking this doesn't matter when you have over a million data points, it's statistically irrelevant

i hate hippos and bulls as well, not norma she did nothing wrong

i used to hate him to death but now i only slightly dislike him. idk as i got older it kinda started to dawn on me that he seems less lazy and more depressed than anything.

Of course not, those kids are just wrong my dude, timberg 4ever

yes, congratulations you are original

Timberg actually looks chill he got robbed

Yes

At least you don’t like Elise like I do

he isnt is jane at the very bottom

@@BraceletyTPOT7489 I meant why is is he in the bottom like 25 to begin with

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Yeah 😳

Im mad at the internet for ruining her. Shes honestly a really cool villager!

Too uncanny valley

Poor gorillas

The design is bad that's why. The design for cats, dogs, wolves, squirrels are all better.

@@Goremize Most of the cats villagers does not have a belly area. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bbhde8t3vZeXl6s.html

I love pietro 😓 I don't think many are fans of the bright colors though

@@Zitronen_ ive grown to like him over the last while (mostly bc i share a birthday with him 😭)

The story behind audie is just so good it ups her popularity

@@chargestone96Its so wholesome

this is a cat world, the leader is bob

Same! I was voting for like an hour and a half before I saw people commenting that there wasn't an end 😭

Ikr! She's adorable

I thought she was so stinkin cute! Her tail looks so cool 😭❤

I think they just happen to also be really, unfortunately ugly. Angus is cranky, but he isn't ugly; he has a cool shirt and is still decently polite, and he's not at the bottom. Some of them are just..... UGLY haha, like Harry? GROSS 🤢🤢

Mine is Lucia, all the way, she's the MAIN reason I haven't completed all of the sword levels.

mine is matt, he's the reason i haven't choosed nintendo and he is in bottom

@@supertuesday600 beg you pardon?

I think she put a link with the results in the description

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Beau is not underrated, he's extremely popular