Hippos are quite unpopular, for sure. If you'd like to see villager popularity, Mikodesu, the site I use is the
Villager Popularity Tier List. The reason I use this site and none of the other popularity ranking sites is because this one receives quite a lot of traffic even now, in 2024, and is still getting lots of votes to reflect continually changing popularity. Most villagers vary a fair bit. The Top 20 tends to stay mostly the same, and the bottom 50-100 also tends to stay mostly the same, but everything in between moves a lot.
Hamlet bounces around hugely, for some reason, from near the top to near the bottom. (I love Hamlet as I almost always get him as my starter jock and because he's the ONLY villager with my RL birthdate. Tom Nook is the only other character who is a May 30 baby, and he doesn't count as a villager.)
Fun fact (er, no, not really, but
pretend it's fun, okay?): almost nothing ever happens on May 30th. The number of celebrities born on May 30 is low, and none of them are the big, splashy, popular ones...and the number of historical events is low, too. May 30th is a strong contender for the most boring day of the year. If we be nice, we can call it 'very
stable'. I wonder if this is why I am boring (stable!), even while being aware, intellectually, that your birthdate has no scientific evidence of having ANYTHING to do with your personality. I vehemently reject astrology even though I'm a pretty classic Gemini. Astrological signs, like fortune cookies, are too generic anyway. Several zodiac signs have profiles that suit me.
ANYWAY... (goodness why do I blather so much?)
I love Hamlet. He feels like he's 'my' villager, more than any other, though Tangy is the one I find the most interesting/amusing. I was aiming for non-descript to unpopular villagers, and Bud is routinely on the low end while Hamlet bounces around like crazy, but I think I'm going to swap Bud out for Hamlet anyway, in a few weeks.
But the most popular hippo villager in the game right now appears to be Biff, at 102. Not a great showing for hippos!
Well I wasn't even supposed to write this. I'm supposed to be doing things! I must go back to the things I am supposed to be doing, now...