Quote Originally Posted by Slatersev View Post
Using a handful of unhappy comments on a popularity poll where she placed Third easily doesn't really work.

Its effectively the same thing that happened with Emet. Immediately became one of the most popular characters in the series, still incredibly easy to find comments from people who didn't like him.

Shit the discourse about Venat know is so similar to the discourse about Emet after ShB it gives me Deja vu.

But regardless, that poll gets to the real meat of EW, just how insanely popular Puddingway is.

What a hero
I think the tone of the conversation around Venat is a little different to the one about Emet, even if there are some similarities. Though a lot of people thought of Emet as an evil and unsympathetic character, it was rare to see confusion about why he acted the way he did, or conversations about the quality of the writing surrounding him - it mostly focused on how he was a hypocritical selfish asshole and how people who liked him and were willing to overlook that were just horny or stupid.

In contrast, despite the segment I quoted, most conversations about Venat here and there are more about the time loop plot and her behavior in it not really making much sense, or making her come across unintentionally as a really bad person with unclear motives that we're nevertheless obviously intended to support. One is dislike of a character from an in-universe perspective, while the other is more about the story itself.

There's also a lot more of it this time around. I was around this forum after ShB came out (I don't post very much, so you can go in my history and see, if you like) and there was comparatively just a few threads about Emet. Most of it was people gushing about how much they loved the story, with no deeper controversy.