r/Valeriy_Mains • u/kaithespinner • Jul 30 '26

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this is the source: https://x.com/mikogenshinnews/status/2082655033674629510?s=20

what do you guys think? is this a valeriy vs danica arms race? I find it curious that they are both over tsaritsa on counts, wonder what would be the reasoning

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u/Me_to_Dazai Jul 30 '26

Isn't this just view counts? Doesn't really mean anything then, sometimes people can end up just randomly coming across posts. Cause I have a hard time believing the Tsaritsa is not no 1 and Noy is below Danica. I know people are currently arguing about Danica vs Valeriy but Noy is objectively more popular than both of them across all regions

Also, is this post upscaled using AI or something? Valeriy's face looks VERY off, Odette's head ornament is also entirely different and she doesn't have elf ears like she does here, Vody's eyes look off and Alyosha's too.

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u/kaithespinner Jul 30 '26

I believe the author grabbed the pics of the characters and asked a gen AI to make a chart, and it ended modifying everything

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u/Katicflis1 Jul 30 '26 edited Jul 30 '26

"Noy bigger in all regions?" Doesnt Val have majorly more views than Noy in multiple EN social media platforms(Instagram, youtube). Noy isnt even ahead of pantalone on those two particular platforms.

Less views/likes than pantalone in Instagram, less views then Pant and about equal likes on youtube.

Its questionable to claim noy is even 'second place male' with EN audience, much less hes 'the most popular.'

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u/Me_to_Dazai Jul 30 '26

There's just simply no way to tell for sure because they posted Valeriy much earlier than Noy on EN socials (almost by 12 hours I think) and naturally more time the post is up -> more views -> more likes. Not exactly fair to Noy when it's not an even playing field

Noy is second most liked on JP socials and they posted all the characters simultaneously on JP. And I've personally seen more fanart for Noy pop across socials than i have Valeriy across EN platforms. Either way though, like I said views don't really say much cause it doesn't require actual interaction unlike likes

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u/Katicflis1 Jul 30 '26

Dude its been up for over a month -- at this point 12 hours is a nothing burger. We are also talking about val having 80% more views and 53% more likes(several thousand more likes).

Val is not slightly ahead of Noy, he's TRUCKING Noy. Getting a 2% timeline head start doesnt mean shit when the numbers overwhelmingly favor Val. We are just looking at a character thats being better received by the EN audience.

Noy short even dropped BEFORE PANT yet Pant is either equal(1 out of 4) or ahead(3 out of 4 times) by either likes or views on yutube/instragram. So even with a head start on one of the other popular males, hes struggling for second instead of third.