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>>528696632
it's funny, when a super-powered entity that can destroy mountains whips out a gun, because at that point it's about sending a message more than killing someone. See also: Goku with a gun, or as a better example, Classic Rock/Sigma with the assault rifle in RXD

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I don't pay too much attention to those things - I've looked at the results a few times, and browsed their booru, but never gotten invested in them on a deeper level - but if I had to speculate on how she won
>Botting? Vote stuffing?
>Nah, I don't think it's botting, because from what I've seen, there DOES seem validation required to vote to prevent something like that, and that barrier of entry probably filters a lot of normies, who wouldn't engage in some popularity contest for internet waifus
>Undertale-adjacency indie boost
>Original Content, and hype derived from it can carry a character
>Thread politicking, & strategic voting where 'my character lost, so I'm going to vote for this character so that character doesn't win'
>Characters who made it high enough are prevented from subsequent years, so a lot of heavy hitters probably aren't present.
Yume Nikki (>>>>>>>>NIKE) has been a darling indie game on 4chan for a long ass time, so I'm not particularly surprised she won.

Regardless of that, the statement that 4chan somehow WASN'T mainstream prior to the hack is rooted in utter lunacy - you've got shit like a certain "Dittmann" (I don't remember this robot master..) posting on 4chan back in January, but you could also cite a lot of other prior events, like Project Chanology, etc as the website breaking into the public zeitgeist long, long before some irrelevant hack occurred.

Prior to the 4chan hack, 4chan has been
>Mentioned in Marvel Comics, when Mettle admitted to browsing it
>Featured on Fox News:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=128IR21ZQa0
>The GAMERS episode of Law & Order, when Reddit & 4chan were blended together, to form 'Redchanit'
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