There was never an official American poll. All official naruto polls were all based in Japan. You telling me that Sakura was more popular than Naruto and Sasuke? Gtfo! You gotta be an idiot to believe this shit poll.
here is the last popularity poll. Do you see Sakura in it?
You're on so much cope it's actually hilarious. You don't even know what you're saying anymore.
This is you saying Sakura never ranks Top 10 in Japan.
Sakura wouldn't even make it in top 10 in official Japan poll.
I provide you with several various polls where she did rank Top 10 and you pick out the one where she didn't and pretend like it proves your point. As i said. I'm not interested in any non-official made poll. The legit ones are all out. This is a Japanese series, not American so who gives a fuck about US only polls?
Besides, the specific region rankings were published as well. You might look up how Sakura did in those regions, spoiler, you won't like it.
Not pretending anything. Everyone is his own individual and do what he wants. But there is a difference between an individual botting for his favorite and a group of vocal crowd doing the same.
And it's pretty clear if you look at the difference in popularity jump from the first day of voting to the last one, that the Sakura bots were the most vocal ones, literally jumping from an 8th place to the 3rd place, almost passing Itachi's 2nd one despite an early gigantic gap in votes between them. Not a coincidence as well that they were the ones caught having multiple chats to do illegal voting stuff:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1616818800447426561
So everyone has a fanbase, but the way the votes were distributed day by day simply suggest the Sakura bots were the most vocals in this one
A small minority of a few extreme fans are now representative of the entire fandom ?
Are the "bots" a special technology only Sakura fans are aware off?
In the poll that was posted above Minato didn't even crack the Top 5, does this ranking and those numbers make sense to you?
There's clearly a certain narrative people are trying to push here. The poll makers were aware of the problem. Those are the official rankings, people should learn to deal with it or declare all rankings invalid.