>>53783120/padt/ (and Twitter) are masters of taking random statistics and turning them into binding "facts", then pushing them until everyone just believes them.
I have a background in doing autistic amounts of research (though it's typically biblical studies desu), so I decided to actually dig into this alleged stat. First of all, let's start with the Pokemon-Matome article, which isn't an article, just a question and a comments section.
>https://pokemon-matome.net/articles/247689.htmlThis leads us to the original Chinese video, which has a little over a million views since being made in May 2021.
>https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1xq4y177F5From what I can gather, this is a Chinese PokéTuber (who appears to have the YT equivalent of about 120k subs) who made an anti-Goh video and then polled his audience, which resulted in a 97%-3% result against Goh, about 120,000 votes anti-Goh and 3,800 pro-Goh. So, basically, this entire "poll" rests on a "content creator" telling his fans "I think this character sucks, and you should too! Do you agree that he sucks?" and them saying "Yes, content creator, we agree with you that this character sucks for the reasons you said." Essentially, this poll is as credible as those political email polls where Trump asks his fans "Do you think Sleepy Joe is doing a horrible job?" and Biden asks his fans "Do you think Drumphf is a threat to democracy?" This "Chinese Goh poll" is a push poll; and since /padt/, Twitter, and English PokéTubers are too brainrotted to realize what a push poll is, they took it as if it were done by freaking Reuters or something. They probably didn't even realize the poll was done by the equivalent of a PokéTuber rather than by a Chinese Pokémon magazine or a similar "official" source.
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