From our other sites
The story
On 5ch’s Hello! Project idol discussion board known as “Ōkami” (Wolf), a debate heated up over who the most popular member is right now. A wide range of names came up — Ebata Misaki, Gotou Hana, Danbara Ruru, Kawashima Mifuu, Yamagishi Riko, and more — with several posters pushing Ebata Misaki in particular, citing the sheer number of threads dedicated to her. On the other hand, some pointed out that thread growth isn’t purely driven by a member’s own fans posting — it’s also padded out by “hozen” (filler posts made just to keep a thread alive) and repeated spam from antis — so opinions were divided over how reply counts actually relate to real popularity.
What people said
Isn't that just trolls showing up?
Lots of people starting threads for her and lots of people replying
Her thread was blowing up just a little while ago
Juice=Juice's Danbara Ruru doesn't seem to have any intention of graduating though
https://kizuna.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/morningcoffee/1790135958/
Funny how the Juice antis are the ones padding out the thread
He's writing like 70% of Ōkami's posts all by himself
Is there even a thread on Ōkami that grows with real substance and no trolls showing up?
Could you please stop looking at Rikoriko that way?
If anyone's trending right now, even if just for the moment, it's probably King
Well, Kawashima does have a lot of otaku
I searched and it's actually way fewer than back when Gotou's or Miyamoto's threads were getting mass "preserved" (hozen — filler posts to keep a thread from dying)
20% of the posts are actual otaku, 80% is copypasta and preservation posts
Conversely, is there even a thread like that for any other member that ISN'T like this?
I looked for Arisawa's thread and there's barely any copypasta spam or preservation posting going on
Wait, is someone deliberately copy-paste spamming their oshi's thread just to make her look popular?
Arisawa is disliked by the "preservation guys," so her threads don't get preserved and just die out fast
The sheer number of threads is insane
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
Here, “Ōkami” (Wolf) refers to 5ch’s discussion board for Hello! Project idol groups, where the number of posts and dedicated threads devoted to a given member is often cited as a “popularity indicator.” However, thread count doesn’t necessarily reflect genuine popularity. Posts include not just messages from a member’s own fans, but also “hozen” (thread-preservation posts — repeated stock phrases used to keep a thread from dying) and spam or trolling from antis, so a high reply count doesn’t automatically mean genuine goodwill — a point that split opinion within the thread itself. Members named in the discussion, such as Ebata Misaki and Danbara Ruru, were both cited on the basis of having a large number of related threads, but whether that reflects real support or simply a tendency to attract arguments and trolling is something left up to each reader’s interpretation.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project) thread “Who’s the most popular member on the Ōkami board right now?.”
Leave a Reply