Excitement is reaching fever pitch as we are mere days away from the final season of HBO’s acclaimed “Game of Thrones” hitting our screens. Never before has the world been so excited about winter’s arrival, but here we are. Does it get any better than this?
One of the main reasons for the show’s unrivaled popularity is its expansive world and the rich list of well-developed characters. The scale of the show ensures everybody has somebody to love and somebody to hate. It also ensures that when it comes to favorite characters, everybody has one, and you won’t have to talk to many people before you find somebody who disagrees with your choice. This is why this map from the guys at Daring Planet is so interesting.
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The map takes data from geo-tagged tweets that are publicly available on Twitter. The result, after processing over 200,000 tweets, is a photo map highlighting which citizen of Westeros garners the most attention in all 50 states. The results are a little surprising.
The map uses the first-past-the-post voting system, which means it only shows the big players. First-past-the-post gives the whole state to whoever gets the most mentions. This means that even if somebody like The Hound or Davos Seaworth scores thousands of mentions across the country, their faces won’t appear on the map unless they score the most mentions in a single state. Theoretically, The Hound could have more mentions overall than Tyrion or Cersei, but it wouldn’t matter. As long as The Hound doesn’t have the most mentions in a single state his face will be nowhere to be seen on this map. Basically, it’s like the electoral college, but less depressing.
The overall winner is somebody that you might not expect it to be. Yes, the map is dominated by Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen, but the character with the most states baring her face is, ironically, the now faceless Arya Stark.
According to Twitter, Arya is the most talked-about “Game of Thrones” character in a whopping 19 States across the U.S. Now whether this is because of the shocking way she ended Season 7 or because people aren’t happy with how the TV writers are treating a treasured book character remains to be seen. With the final season bearing down like a White Walker army, it will be interesting to see if this remains true once the credits roll.
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