Originally posted by: Moonandstars
Since most popular SM platform is Instagram. The activity there tells you a lot of what's happening with the popularity of mega celebrities and mini celebrities.
So, on 2nd December it was/ and now on 19th December
Aru had 1447814 followers , now it is 1451198
That's gain of 3384 followers
PD had 156131 now it is 1554274
That's loss of 6857 followers.
In between they both lost followers, but Arunita was still gaining at much faster pace than PD (who has been more or less static in last 3 months). In reality Octopus has not made much difference to Arunita's following on Instagram, but has hurt PD a little.
Here is a bit of history for you.
Arunita started her IG account in November end 2020 just before the start of IG 12. So the account is about a year old.
PD had a much older IG a/c. He had 350K+ followers even before Arunita started her IG journey.
By end March 2021 Arunita had narrowed the gap to 200K. PD was at 400K (odd), and she was at 210K (odd).
Throughout the rest of the Idol journey Arunita chipped away at the lead and on 31st July 2021 PD had 993K followers and she had 888K.
As is to be expected, PD's win added many new fans after 15th August and at one time he again built a lead of 200K+.
The lead is now close to 100K again and the trends are opposite. PD is losing fans and Aru is gaining.
If this trend continues then Aru will make 1.5M before PD reaches 1.6M.
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