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The story
Juice=Juice’s TikTok posts have started consistently pulling in tens of thousands of likes, sparking discussion on 5ch’s Hello! Project board. One thread floated the standard that “going viral” means hitting 100,000 likes, and posted a ranking of female idols by TikTok likes — with NiziU in 1st, =LOVE in 2nd, and iLiFE in 3rd, Juice=Juice came in 9th. Posters also noted that collaboration videos with outside talent have been steadily gaining views, sparking a broader debate about how these numbers are climbing.
What people said
Where would that rank among idol groups?
Ah, I see
So they started covering up their underwear now?
So basically AKB's Ito has never gone viral on TikTok.
This lousy agency.
Probably because they have no intention of scheduling tours that reflect actual popularity or drawing power. No matter how popular they get, it just goes to waste that way.
They should just hand the idol business over to someone who actually wants to run it.
Then again, there's no way Up-Front could make money without Juice=Juice either.
If they're going viral even after covering up, then it wasn't the underwear driving the buzz after all, huh?
Actually, for "Kurakura" the top likes go to Kawashima, so Hayashi isn't all-powerful — her average's high, though.
They do that regularly, but their own songs get more traction.
No, they're not.
If you don't fit into any of those, I think you should be a bit more proactive about trying new things.
Videos that get views but no likes are just ones the algorithm pushed out — nothing more.
But yeah, likes on collabs with outside talent keep climbing steadily, so they might overtake it eventually.
Such a waste that they got embarrassed and deleted it, even though it's official choreography.
Show some gratitude.
It's the other way around.
Thanks to Angerme.
When did Angerme ever go viral?
TikTok likes ranking
1st: NiziU
2nd: =LOVE
3rd: iLiFE
4th: Risa Furusawa (CUTIE STREET)
5th: Sakurazaka46
6th: Ayano Masuda (CUTIE STREET)
7th: Kana Itakura (CUTIE STREET)
8th: Karen Matsumoto (FRUITS ZIPPER)
9th: Juice=Juice
10th: Airi Suzuki
11th: Amane Tsukiashi (FRUITS ZIPPER)
12th: Yui Sakurai (FRUITS ZIPPER)
So Kawa Labo does better when she does it freely on her own?
Who even compiled this?
What about =LOVE members' personal accounts?
They just didn't buy multiples for individual voting — it still sold steadily over time and beat "LOVE Machine"'s record for cumulative weeks on the charts.
That's a contradiction in terms.
Background and Points of Debate
There’s no official definition of “going viral” on TikTok, and the “100,000 likes” benchmark raised in the thread is just one participant’s gut feeling. The TikTok-likes ranking of female idols is likewise an unofficial tally with no stated source or methodology — worth noting these aren’t figures released by any agency or the idols themselves. Suspicions about inflated follower or view counts also come up regularly in idol fan circles, though unsubstantiated claims tend to get mixed in with legitimate observations on this topic. This thread also included some practical trend analysis — for instance, the observation that collaboration videos with outside talent tend to perform better than dance-cover videos of the group’s own songs — going beyond a simple numbers comparison into questions of social media strategy.
※This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary from the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “[Urgent] Juice=Juice’s TikTok likes going viral at the 10,000+ level is now an everyday thing wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww“.
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