I figure QR codes made it a whole lot easier on getting your favorites, but I wonder if some people still care about popularity. Before, some people wouldn't get a villager just because they're real popular lol.
Personally, Stitches would be my favorite even if he wasn't popular.
I don't care for popularity to be honest after all the villager will be in my town and I don't care what others think about them e.g. Jambette is in one of my towns and I love her even though she's one of the least popular villagers.
My current villagers I actually like, it just so happened that most of them are popular. Out of all the villagers in my town right now, I think Colton is my absolute favourite, he's been with me for so long that we've become proper besties.
Skye was the first villager I had when I first started the game and she has been my all time favorite ever since. She made me love all the wolves now, so I'm trying to get all of them in one town
The popularity of a villager doesn't matter for me at all. I choose the villagers I like and when my town
is full of tier 5 and/or tier 6 villagers at the end, then it's perfectly fine.
Popularity doesn't matter to me at all, but the only reason why I got Julian is because I know a lot of people want and like him (rude, I know) but that's just who I am lmao. But we actually became best friends, and he's pretty chill. He became one of my favorite villagers!
It's not a big part of my decision, but I do to a certain extent. I guess part of it is just curiosity, when I hear a villager talked about a lot, I kinda want to meet them myself but I won't just get them because of that, I still have to like the way they look, act and their house.
I usually don't care if I like a villager that's popular but I only really have one in my town who's tier 1, the rest of my villagers are at least tier 3 and below, to me I don't get how some aren't higher up on the list but we all have our own opinions I guess! I love every single one of my villagers regardless of tier. ^^
Honestly, I try not to let popularity factor choose who I want to live in my town, for me, it's just the personality and looks that really does that for me. It's genuinely coincidentally that I genuinely like many of the popular villagers but come again, not all of them interest me at all whatsoever. I don't really care about the popularity at all to be honest and it's more about if they click with me or not. I have villagers that I like that are below Tier 1 and or found some that are below that I've truly grown to like and even love. A good example of that is Snake who happens to be below Tier 1 and 2 and I grown to like him. So no, the villager's popularity doesn't matter to me or factor in to who I want in my town at all.