Here are the final collated results of the Emote Off! Most of the categories have 3 winners, and I went with a simple bronze = 1 point, silver = 2 points, and gold = 3 points system to determine an overall winner, while also including some other important stats.
Things to note (feel free to not read this):
1. It is very important that I stress that just because someone has a low point/vote total, that doesn't make their emotes *bad* as this is merely an exercise in finding the *best.* I considered trying something to determine the worst, but eeeehhhh I'm not interested in opening up the thread to that kind of negativity.
2. I fucked up and missed several emotes for categories, particularly for Juna early on when I was using the icebox to look for emotes, before I realized how out of date it was for ones who've down a lot of emote work like she has, so that's muh bad.
3. There was only 1 case of an emote showing up in two different categories, before I decided to lock emotes to one specific category that I personally determined they represent more than any other. It's entirely possible I chose a less fitting category for a few, as I was making a lot of this up as I went along. Also as a reminder, I automatically disqualified any emotes that are solely just words.
4. The results are absolutely biased. I specifically tested posting polls during hours/threads where certain girls and their fans were active, and always the immediate rush of votes would be in that girl's favor. I tried making sure the polls were posted at varying hours, but it's kind of inevitable that some group is going to be more or less active for a period. It's up to you to decide how biased they are, outside of a few golds I personally don't think it's that egregious. Regardless, I did not observe anything that looked like some individual was actively ballot stuffing, but it's also still poal so I wouldn't necessarily call them reliable results either.
5. Certain girls like Yuko and Kai and Pochi changed and/or added a lot of emotes partway into this whole process, and while it's regrettable they weren't included because I think the new stuff is better than what they had before, it's can't be helped.
6. This is just a for fun silly interesting thing, despite how much time I've spent talking about it. I may do it again but much less retarded in the distant future.
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