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List of Villagers Based on Popularity

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Gonna add another last-minute, bold prediction: Clay moves up into Tier 4. He was snatched up quite a bit this week. :)
 
Happy Birthday to the TBT Popularity Thread!

I'd like to say thanks to everyone on TBT "adopting" this thread as their go-to guide for popularity. I'm glad that it's been of such a great use to everyone who uses it. I understand that people don't agree with the tiering of villagers, and I'd like to point out that I agree. I don't like the idea of putting other villagers above others, but at the same time, people ask how popular a villager is all the time, so a guide for people is always useful, which is why I made this list. I wanted to help people. :D

We've had a great year here, and here's hoping that there's more to come!

I have some super special extras for you today, which will come after the update! You'll soon see what they are, but we've first gotta get down to the week's business!..

Update

Tier One

1. Fang - up 2 (1 week at the top spot)
2. Marshal - down 1
3. Fauna - up 4
4. Julian - up 5
5. Lolly - unchanged
6. Diana - down 4
7. Stitches - up 1
8. Beau - up 2
9. Whitney - down 5
10. Chief - up 4
11. Marina - unchanged
12. Ankha - down 6
13. Merengue - up 2
14. Punchy - down 1
15. Rosie - down 3

Bob has been moved up from number 9 of Tier Two, to number 2.

Kid Cat has been moved up from number 16 of Tier Two, to number 12.

Cookie has been moved down from number 27 of Tier Two, to number 2 of Tier Three.

Rudy has been moved up from number 6 of Tier Three, to number 1.

Kabuki has been moved up from number 4 of Tier Three, to number 27 of Tier Two.

Vesta has been moved up from number 29 of Tier Three, to number 22.

Lobo has been moved up from number 11 of Tier Four, to number 2.

Goldie has been moved up from number 13 of Tier Four, to number 1.

Gladys has been moved up from number 24 of Tier Four, to number 16.

Sydney, Amelia & Henry have all been moved down from numbers 27, 29 and 30 of Tier Four, to Tier Five.

Bonbon, Cube & Jeremiah have all been moved up from Tier Five, to numbers 17, 24 and 29 of Tier Four respectively.

As always, please feel free to discuss the changes this week! There's not too much, but there are some brand new Tier Fours, and some real movement at the top of Tier One.

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Okay, so now we'll move on to some birthday extras! I decided to give you some records set, and any honourable mentions that should be talked about as well! I hope you enjoy them!

I'll also include a copy of the Tiers at this time last year at the bottom of this post too so you can compare the current listings to how they were back then!

Marshal.​
Are we surprised? He has been at number one for a total of 34 weeks at this point, and was solidly number one from the list's inception until the first week of May. That's some staying power. He's also never dropped below number 4.

Marshal, Merengue, Stitches, Diana & Fang.​
Surprisingly enough, Ankha, Lolly and Julian have never been at the top of the list, despite maintaining almost constant popularity throughout the list's history. However, most of the number ones have been fairly predictable.

All of the current Tier Ones + Skye, Molly, Phoebe, Erik, Zucker, Bam, Tia & Rudy.​
Yeah, you're reading that correctly. Rudy used to be in Tier One. He was only there for a week, but he really zipped up to the top of the rankings when this list was created.

Ankha.​
Surprisingly enough, Ankha has actually been the most stable Tier One, never dropping out of the top 10 (besides this week, whoops). She has climbed as high as number 3, but has remained at the 5/6 position for almost the entire time.

Before her recent sharp drop, Rosie was the second villager to hold this position. She also never dropped out of the top 11, mainly staying around the 8/9/10 spots, but staying consistently popular throughout.

Mitzi. (Papi)​
This little one rose from Tier Four to the mid-way point in Tier Two in a single week. How? Because I made a mistake and forgot she was still in Tier Four.. Whoops ;)
I guess that one wasn't good enough, soooo..

Papi managed to climb from Tier Five to the bottom of Tier Three in a single week, before climbing again the next week. This one suddenly shot up in popularity, and he was absolutely everywhere at one stage. He has managed to remain very stable since that jump, and I don't see him dropping again any time soon.

Fang. (Zucker)​
This one was fairly recent. Fang managed to jump a massive 7 places from number 8, to the very top spot in one single week, just 3 weeks ago. He had remained fairly stable at the mid-point of Tier One for many weeks, but suddenly leapt up in a single week to number 1, and has this week managed to reclaim that crown!

Zucker held this crown beforehand, jumping a massive 6 places to number 6 earlier this year. The tier was relatively stable at this point, so this one was a surprise. His popularity was slowly dipping for many weeks, before this huge jump put him almost into the top 5. However, not long after this, he took a big dive into Tier Two, where he has remained since.

Hamphrey. (O'Hare/Pashmina)​
Hamphrey was never one of the most popular villagers, but he remained a very stable Tier Three for most of the time, until he took a tumble down to the bottom of Tier Three. Soon after, he took a massive 18 place drop into the lower section of Tier Four.

Coming in behind we have O'Hare and Pashmina, who both managed to take huge 11 place drops, swapping with Maple, and Cherry, respectively at the times they dropped. This obviously makes for pretty impressive rises for Maple and Cherry as well.

Beau. (Ankha)​
Beau, earlier on this year, took a very steep drop in Tier One, dropping a massive 7 places from number 6 to number 13 in one single week. The tier was very unstable and was going through some major changes, and Beau's popularity just disappeared. I was confident he'd actually drop out of the tier if that trend continued for another week, but I was proven wrong, and he climbed 5 places the following week.

Ankha, this week in fact, has just dropped 6 places in one week. This is the second biggest drop in Tier One so far and I'm surprised. Ankha has been consistently popularity for many months, as mentioned earlier, and I feel that she'll bounce back quickly, 'cos she's different, but is a cat, which means most people will end up liking her.

Kiki. (Apollo)​
Kiki holds this crown for her very steady rise over the space of 4 months. She started in the mid-section of Tier Four, but very slowly rose throughout the months, without dropping once, to make it into the upper section of Tier Two. She even rose a massive 19 places in October.

Apollo is just behind, with his continual rise of an entire Tier, which spanned from the end of July, to the middle of August. He managed to climb 19 places in July to make it to the top of Tier Three, before rising every single week to reach his temporary resting spot at number 12.

Rudy. (Pashmina)​
Rudy, when the list was created, was one of the most popular villagers around, being even higher than Skye, Zucker and Julian! He was in Tier One at the list's inception, but very gradually dropped soon after. He then dropped very slowly to the upper section of Tier Three ever since, where he has remained.

Pashmina is next in line, managing to go from the mid-section of Tier Three to Tier Five in a matter of months. She also holds the distinction of being one of the villagers to have one of the highest crashes in one single week.

That's about it everyone! I hope everyone's enjoyed reading, and has many different things to say!

I can't even remember where I wrote I'd put the Tiers at the bottom here, but I'll put them in a Google Document for you all to see as this post is already cluttered enough. It'll also inclue what the tiers looked like 6 months later too, as an added bonus!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_-DZOgI7lQmnsZuvwIHShGuJAdUsO7tOEgGLQ0zRmvo/edit

Here's to another great year! <3

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Forgot to add in the Biggest Crash in Tier One in one week, so you have that too :)

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Also added in the Google Doc link, 'cos you know, that helps..
 
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I'm rooting for Bob to get into Tier 1! (it seems that people care more about villagers like Fauna and Marina that will never, ever be as cool as Bob)
 
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Here's to another year. :)

Slightly surprised Ankha moved down this week; I saw a lot of auctions for her. And of course: HANG ON, ROSIE!!!
 
so happy Lobo moved up a bit! I really hope he moves from tier 4 to 3 next week *fingers crossed*
no wonder Marshal is the most popular, with a face like his how can he not be :D
Kiki and Diana are cute but in my opinion they're the most overrated....

and Fang being number one!! no wonder since all wolves are popular with him being the cutest of the bunch :D
 
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I'm so sorry for Ankha moving down. She's (in my opinion) the most cute and funny of the female cats.
I also think poor Hamphrey has been misunderstood. He's a lovely mate for Flurry (he, he...)
 
My precious Bonbon is out of Tier 5 ;_;

She was always the most underrated cute bun. I get the feeling that she's going to crash again soon, but I hope she at least remains a Tier 4 mainstay.
 
Cube in tier 4, better than nothing...I think he's one of the best lazy villagers ever! And Goldie in the first position of tier 4. I hope they will go up in the next weeks, together with Katt :)
 
Poor Ankha! I agree she's quite unique :O Hopefully she'll shoot back up soon.
 
Whoa updated list! Thank you for making this, has to be my favorite page on the site.

This is the page I have bookmarked to get to the bell tree forums. :D
 
My precious Bonbon is out of Tier 5 ;_;

She was always the most underrated cute bun. I get the feeling that she's going to crash again soon, but I hope she at least remains a Tier 4 mainstay.

^This. I see everyone asking for Bonbon, but she's all the way down at the bottom? Three people already PM'd me asking if they could have her when she moves.

And I can't believe Ankha dropped, I've seen a lot of threads for her lately. But then again, that doesn't mean there was much demand for her.
 
Sad at Ankha's drop in the rankings but Lobo's finally made it higher up on Tier 4!
 
I can definitely foresee Pashmina rising to Tier 4 either this week or next week. Her popularity in auctions and such has really exploded as of late...
 
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