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“no one cares about kylo ren or reylo except for some a few horny girl on twitter” oh, you wanna dance? let’s dance! // a thread
this is a poll from a bit after TLJ was released.
a poll from the week IX was released.
a poll from after the final trailer was released in october.
this video shows the IX ending with a reylo HEA. it has 1.4M views, and thousands of positive comments. it has 19x more likes than dislikes.
even this hilarious parody video has IX ending with reylo alive (and smooching). it has 4.5 million views. it also has 85x more likes than dislikes.
the nerdist reylo shallow parody has 3.3M views, and 48x times more likes than dislikes.
this is how searches for reylo from the past 90 days match up with searches for 3 other ships.
here’s how kylo ren matches up with 3 other characters, again from the past 90 days.
at SDCC, @getFANDOM did a video asking fans what they wanted from IX, then they drew it. almost all the responses had reylo, and this is what the final drawing became, along with this quote: “and here is where the galaxy thus embarks from; the middle of the dark and the light”.
the undercover boss kylo ren skit from 2016 is the second most viewed SNL skit on youtube, with 50M views.
for the first 4 weeks of 2020, reylo was the #1 ship on tumblr. for the past 3 weeks since then, it’s been sitting at #2.
reylo was one the top 20 ships on tumblr every single week that fandometrics analyzed in 2019, except for 2 weeks.
reylo was the #19 most popular ship on tumblr in 2017, #2 in 2018, and #7 in 2019.
without any planning, #ReyloLove trended at #4 in the states on January 10th.
on january 24th, #BringBenSoloBack trended in russia, peru, canada, mexico, chile, spain, argentina, brazil, italy, worldwide, and in the US at #4. that day brought 45k tweets.
on january 25th, #SaveBenSolo trended in multiple countries, worldwide, and in the US at #2. that day brought 50k tweets.
reylo is the #17 ship overall on Ao3, and the #2 m/f ship.
this chart from @blessmycircuits shows the stats of the ST ships on Ao3.
reylo: 68.6M hits
kylux: 24.8M hits
finnpoe: 20.2M hits
damerey: 3.1M hits
finnrey: 2.9M hits
reylo: 68.6M hits
kylux: 24.8M hits
finnpoe: 20.2M hits
damerey: 3.1M hits
finnrey: 2.9M hits
on february 14th, #ReyloLove trended in italy, mexico, argentina, canada, phillipines, brazil, russia, australia, puerto rico, worldwide, and at #11 in the US. that day brought 50-60k tweets.
the rise of kylo ren comics are a massive success. #1 became the top selling comic of 2019 for a big comic store in the UK, despite coming out in the last 2 weeks of 2019. #2 is being printed for a 3rd time, and #3 sold out in a matter of hours, and is being reprinted as well.
this chart is a representative sample of mentions of official SW twitter hashtags from the timeframe in the title. look whose in the lead.
in the montage of the best film moments of 2019, the reylo kiss was the only thing from IX that was shown.
so in conclusion:
from 2015 to 2019, ben’s page was the most searched on wookieepedia
the IX vanity fair spread in may included an entire article on reylo. it referred to them as the “intergalactic will they or won’t they” couple. vanity fair’s IX week in december also included yet another article entirely about reylo.
another poll showing that the majority didn’t want ben’s bitch ass to die
another poll showing that the majority liked the kiss
mooooore data!
https://twitter.com/informalmajesty/status/1183394120565514240?s=21 https://twitter.com/InFormalMajesty/status/1183394120565514240
https://twitter.com/informalmajesty/status/1183394120565514240?s=21 https://twitter.com/InFormalMajesty/status/1183394120565514240
@bmoviesd commissioned this art for their special issue on IX
https://twitter.com/steaknunicorns/status/1194470246993793024?s=21 https://twitter.com/SteakNUnicorns/status/1194470246993793024
https://twitter.com/steaknunicorns/status/1194470246993793024?s=21 https://twitter.com/SteakNUnicorns/status/1194470246993793024
I don’t agree with everything in this, but it’s still p good. the writer believes that ben shouldn’t have died. slash films tweeted this out to their 191k+ followers, and they’re def not “horny twilight teens”. http://bit.ly/2rnVFhZ
and here we are! as of february 22nd, reylo is the biggest M/F ship on Ao3.
another buzzfeed poll: 40% of the quiz takers voted for ben as their fave character, followed by 22% for rey, 13% for poe, 10% for BB-8, and 6% for finn.
a thread showing the popularity of reylo and ben on tiktok https://twitter.com/xoxoreyloxoxo/status/1234926039912108037?s=21
for the past 10 weeks (so every week of 2020), reylo has been the #1 het ship tumblr every week. it was #1 overall for 4 weeks, #2 overall for another 4, and #3 overall for the remaining 2 weeks.
here’s how reylo has ranked on tumblr for the past few years:
2016- 10th most popular ship overall, #1 het ship.
2017- #19 overall, #5 het ship.
2018- #2 overall, #1 het ship.
2019- #7 overall, #1 het ship.
2016- 10th most popular ship overall, #1 het ship.
2017- #19 overall, #5 het ship.
2018- #2 overall, #1 het ship.
2019- #7 overall, #1 het ship.
in the past 100 weeks that have been recorded by fandom on tumblr, reylo has only not made the top 20 twice. so 98/100 weeks, reylo was one of the top 20 ships on tumblr.
reylo was one of the top ten ships on tumblr 67 weeks out of the last 100 weeks that were recorded.
reylo has been one of the top 3 het ships on tumblr 87 weeks out of the last 100 weeks recorded. it’s been the #1 het ship on the site 62 times out of the last 100 weeks recorded.
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oh look! the ben GOA episode from a few months ago is way more popular than the episodes released for the trio. it’s almost like kids love ben the most, too.
https://twitter.com/varyavin/status/1239620582326624258?s=21 https://twitter.com/varyavin/status/1239620582326624258
https://twitter.com/varyavin/status/1239620582326624258?s=21 https://twitter.com/varyavin/status/1239620582326624258
he’s a popular boi
https://twitter.com/xoxoreyloxoxo/status/1239605250547503104?s=21 https://twitter.com/xspaceangelsx/status/1239605250547503104
https://twitter.com/xoxoreyloxoxo/status/1239605250547503104?s=21 https://twitter.com/xspaceangelsx/status/1239605250547503104
eeeek! we made it guys. we broke 18k fics on the archive!
https://twitter.com/xspaceangelsx/status/1237192312012312576?s=21 https://twitter.com/xspaceangelsx/status/1237192312012312576
https://twitter.com/xspaceangelsx/status/1245100720774356996?s=21 https://twitter.com/xspaceangelsx/status/1245100720774356996
comparison of the trio’s view numbers on tiktok to ben’s
https://twitter.com/xspaceangelsx/status/1245047196145385472?s=21 https://twitter.com/xspaceangelsx/status/1245047196145385472
https://twitter.com/xspaceangelsx/status/1245047196145385472?s=21 https://twitter.com/xspaceangelsx/status/1245047196145385472
there are 111,254 works in the “star wars- all media types” tag on ao3. of the top 100 (most hits) SW fics, 54 of them are reylo. and the top two SW fics on the whole site are reylo fics– LWABOC, and interstellar transmissions.
we’re such a large demographic that big corporations use us for marketing purposes
https://twitter.com/xspaceangelsx/status/1241554363107225601?s=21 https://twitter.com/xspaceangelsx/status/1241554363107225601
https://twitter.com/xspaceangelsx/status/1241554363107225601?s=21 https://twitter.com/xspaceangelsx/status/1241554363107225601
a bit more on the ao3 thing- 12 of the top 20 SW fics on the site are reylo fics. and of course, the top two are reylo fics as well
https://twitter.com/xspaceangelsx/status/1246873128036454400?s=21 https://twitter.com/xspaceangelsx/status/1246873128036454400
https://twitter.com/xspaceangelsx/status/1246986771759538176?s=21 https://twitter.com/xspaceangelsx/status/1246986771759538176
https://twitter.com/xspaceangelsx/status/1244418844380274689?s=21 https://twitter.com/xspaceangelsx/status/1244418844380274689
some etsy and redbubble numbers in this thread, showing the demand for ben solo/ reylo merch https://twitter.com/xspaceangelsx/status/1244418848641691648?s=21 https://twitter.com/xspaceangelsx/status/1244418848641691648
