Why Bother With Popular Villager Hype?

[Zanessa]

I dont care about popularity, but the popular villagers seems to be the cooles/cutest.

I can't say this is true for all the populars, but you can say it's true for a few of them.

 

[Princess Weeb]

It's not. But villagers make it a big thing.

It never used to be until I realised there were online forums like this, where you could trade the villagers and whatever. I just cared about having a cute house and pretty flowers, ahah.

 

[Gizmodo]

Plus why pay for Marshal when you could get him in an easy method??

Let your only smug villager move out
Let one more villager move out (but one that you have another personality type of)
so you have 8..
The game makes you have 9, so will give you a new plot, this plot will be Smug if its the only personality type you are missing
reset for Marshal, wont take long as theres hardly any smugs

So i could let Lopez move, then someone else such as Mitzi, since i have another normal vesta
then reset for Marshal.

 

[Princess Weeb]

Plus why pay for Marshal when you could get him in an easy method??

Let your only smug villager move out
Let one more villager move out (but one that you have another personality type of)
so you have 8..
The game makes you have 9, so will give you a new plot, this plot will be Smug if its the only personality type you are missing
reset for Marshal, wont take long as theres hardly any smugs

So i could let Lopez move, then someone else such as Mitzi, since i have another normal vesta
then reset for Marshal.

Wait, does that actually work? Unless you have like 4 of the same type aren't they just random ;~;

 

[Gizmodo]

Wait, does that actually work? Unless you have like 4 of the same type aren't they just random ;~;

Nope, it will give you the one type you are missing, if you have everything else..

 

[J087]

I'm not bothered by how popular someone is. I don't even get why Marshal is voted the most popular, and I dislike several "top tiers". One of my favourite villagers is Walker who's deemed one of the least favourite by the forum's list, which I have the highest disregard for.

The value of friendship can't be measured in popularity tiers nor bells.

 

[Cou]

Plus why pay for Marshal when you could get him in an easy method??

Let your only smug villager move out
Let one more villager move out (but one that you have another personality type of)
so you have 8..
The game makes you have 9, so will give you a new plot, this plot will be Smug if its the only personality type you are missing
reset for Marshal, wont take long as theres hardly any smugs

So i could let Lopez move, then someone else such as Mitzi, since i have another normal vesta
then reset for Marshal.

Ok woah, this actually make sense. I had Deirdre move out, leaving me with no uchi. Few days after, Pashmina moved in. I can't clarify it but I kind of believe this, idk.. Maybe just coincidence

 

[VioletsTown]

Yeah, I think what creates the hype is that many of us are attracted to similar aesthetics. Like Marshal. He is cute to a lot of people, so the demand is created. Now, are there people who would have never wanted him, but now the hype exists, wants him because he is popular? Sure. But I still think the majority of people who want him would have wanted him regardless of the hype. Some of the characters, the way they are drawn, just have more mass appeal.

 

[momayo]

Plus why pay for Marshal when you could get him in an easy method??

Let your only smug villager move out
Let one more villager move out (but one that you have another personality type of)
so you have 8..
The game makes you have 9, so will give you a new plot, this plot will be Smug if its the only personality type you are missing
reset for Marshal, wont take long as theres hardly any smugs

So i could let Lopez move, then someone else such as Mitzi, since i have another normal vesta
then reset for Marshal.

Can confirm that this works. But it still takes a buttload of effort. I remember doing this for Ruby and still failing because of bad luck. I kept a different peppy instead.

E: I also think it's easier to like other villagers because you see so many other people have positive/memorable views of them that you get a preconception and positive expectation. It's kind of the definition of hype, except I dont think people are doing it out of a blind need for status or, I dunno, validation.

 

[J087]

In my opinion, if we just base everything and everyone off of looks, this game is pointless.

EVERYONE judges by looks because that's the first and only thing you know about a new person. If you've ever been on a dating website you'll probably have experienced the "hey, cute pic" messages yourself.

Since we know nothing about the villagers and can't make a real connection with them, their looks are the only thing that we can grab onto. What makes it easy is that the game stands so far from reality that we can afford to be superficial. I'm not sure if we should be happy with that though.

 

[Gizmodo]

Can confirm that this works. But it still takes a buttload of effort. I remember doing this for Ruby and still failing because of bad luck. I kept a different peppy instead.

E: I also think it's easier to like other villagers because you see so many other people have positive/memorable views of them that you get a preconception and positive expectation. It's kind of the definition of hype, except I dont think people are doing it out of a blind need for status or, I dunno, validation.

It will have been hard with Peppy's as there are soooooo many of them.. id only do this method for Smugs and Uchi's as there is only 20 of each, so it really wouldnt take long at all to get the one you want
I'm shocked not many know of this..

 

[Bear_Crossing]

It will have been hard with Peppy's as there are soooooo many of them.. id only do this method for Smugs and Uchi's as there is only 20 of each, so it really wouldnt take long at all to get the one you want
I'm shocked not many know of this..

I didn't know this! D:
It's a cool trick, I guess.

 

[Gizmodo]

I didn't know this! D:
It's a cool trick, I guess.

I think i'll have to do it for Marshal, its just tricky for me, as im so attached to villagers, i mean ive had the file for 6 months and only 1 has moved out so for two to move out is a lot for me

 

[Bear_Crossing]

I think i'll have to do it for Marshal, its just tricky for me, as im so attached to villagers, i mean ive had the file for 6 months and only 1 has moved out so for two to move out is a lot for me

Ah. I always got a bit sad when resetting my town because I had grown attached to my villagers.

Villagers like Claudia, Celia, Bunnie, Doc, Charlise. I expected not to like them but I did.
If I had a town full of uber populars, it wouldn't matter to me, because I made better friends with villagers that were always seen as ugly and bad. I don't know why, to be honest. I always felt as though the un-populars had more character than the villagers that were popular. Maybe because they looked different, I really am not sure.
But, a Marshal is technically a Hippeux, since they're the same personality, just different looks and species.

I'd choose Claudia over Marshal, any day, to be honest, but it's all up to personal taste.

I sort of feel as though some villagers are wanted more because other people want them and it has rubbed off on others. I don't know.

 

[Zanessa]

Plus why pay for Marshal when you could get him in an easy method??

Let your only smug villager move out
Let one more villager move out (but one that you have another personality type of)
so you have 8..
The game makes you have 9, so will give you a new plot, this plot will be Smug if its the only personality type you are missing
reset for Marshal, wont take long as theres hardly any smugs

So i could let Lopez move, then someone else such as Mitzi, since i have another normal vesta
then reset for Marshal.

^This too. Why auction when a few resets could work?

- - - Post Merge - - -

EVERYONE judges by looks because that's the first and only thing you know about a new person. If you've ever been on a dating website you'll probably have experienced the "hey, cute pic" messages yourself.

Since we know nothing about the villagers and can't make a real connection with them, their looks are the only thing that we can grab onto. What makes it easy is that the game stands so far from reality that we can afford to be superficial. I'm not sure if we should be happy with that though.

Well, I don't date online (not with these pedo bears running around)... so I can't really relate to that point from an online status..

But with that last point, yeah it's a game and we have some control, but it's probably a bad thing too.

 

[VillageDweller]

I don't really have a full list of dreamies anyway so lol
The only ones I absolutely would have are Merry and Bones: Merry was a starting villager in my NL town and I absolutely loved her (too bad I accidentely lost her because I didn't play for a while, now I want her back LOL) and Bones because I loveddd him in Wild World and I saw him occassionaly in CF towns so I want him too.
The rest are comers and goers. Swap in swap out :} But obviously I hang on to ones I end up liking a lot, such as rn Goose, Kidd, Kiki. All been here since the 1st day, and 2nd day for Kidd. After a while, I will problem let them go, but I'd like to hold on to particular ones for as long as possible. however I feel it is always good to have some be swapping out, to keep things new and fresh :}

I'll never understand why people would want villagers just because they're popular/rare. If people's favourite villagers do HAPPEN to be popular or rare, so be it, but just wanting villagers because they're popular/rare is idk, up to them I guess? Lol

And uh: how do you think villagers end up being popular? because a whole lot of people like them, and I guess it's just up to them :]

(idk how i would have but soz if i have offended anyone in dis post i never look at the ac sections so idk if i've said something wrong)

 

[Hyoon]

I guess my town qualifies as a town full of popular villagers, but I never had to haggle for any of them. I got them through trading my old villagers and resets. The most I ever paid was 1mil for Genji so I guess I've been lucky. c,: I had someone pay me a ridiculous amount of money for Marshal and while he's my favorite villager ever, I'm not sure if he's really worth that much money.

I like all my villagers because I find them all adorable and they make me laugh in their ridiculous ways (Marshal offering to sit in my lap never gets old tbh or how Zucker kept sending me letters about his canker sore lol). They just happen to be popular because others agree with me, too. uwu

To be honest, I really dislike people who write sob stories on auction and whine about how they don't have the money to buy their favorite villagers. I mean it's an auction, money wins... If you don't have the money, try trading, resetting, or entering raffles. Whining about it isn't fair and besides, these villagers are just pixels anyways. Life will go on.

What really annoys me though are people who only want villagers for their popularity. I recently saw a thread about someone asking about their villagers' "worth", then finding out that they're not popular, and being disappointed. Like wow, really. Why don't you try to see if you like them before shunning them off for not being popular and a quick way for you to make bells.

Basically, don't hate or like a villager based on popularity. Hate them or like them for looks or something else lol.

 

[tamagotchi]

Honestly, I'm not really sure. I think It's just the designs of the villagers. They're all the same, same speech, same needs, they just look "better" than the other's in some people's eyes. I've tried the villager reset trick (Though I never really have succeeded because I get bored and the next day a villager plot "so happens" to be there..) which is pretty tedious and long. I understand if you've already payed off your house loan, got the highest tier of Nookling Stores, I understand you can spend a lot of money on things; but it is a little much for me. I saw a Zucker auction go up to 60mil one time (Where do all these people get so much money. unu). :V But people can do what they want to do, not my decision. :y

 

[Xerneas]

For me, villagers are all about aesthetic appearances. I have a certain "look" that I want my town to have, I guess. Right now I'm set on getting all food-related villagers. I'm picky about who lives in my town, but then again, I'm also known to spend hours resetting for train station color and grass shape. I don't go to the point of haggling and trading for villagers, though. I prefer to get them myself. I use the villager reset trick to help achieve this faster, and if a dream villager shows up in my campsite, I'll certainly take it. I've gotten these "dream villagers" before on previous save files, and to be honest, I find it to be a bit anticlimactic. They're cute, and I enjoy seeing them around, but they get boring after a while too.

 

[Hype]

I have quite a few "popular" villagers in my town but the only reason I have them is because I like their personality type and I think they are cute.