Goro Akechi has never stopped being a divisive character forPersona 5players, with him very much falling into the ‘love him or hate him’ category. It makes it that less surprising that he would be trending around Twitter with the hashtag #GoodbyeGoro.
This recent hashtag however has nothing to do with Akechi’s words and actions during the events ofPersona 5. Rather, it is due to a recent fan-made poll wherePersonafans can vote on their favorite characters throughout thePersonaseries.
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Thefan-pollthat is calculating all of these results and presenting them is a Twitter account going by @PersonaAward. The polls themselves are called thePersonaAwards 2021, with round two being the round to cause this hashtag surrounding Akechi to trend.
Round two’s fourth match had four different polls for character popularity, where two characters were put up against each other. Yusuke Kitagawa was put up against Tae Takemi, Mitsuru Kirijo was against Akihiko Sanada, Naoto Shirogane was against Goro Akechi, andYosuke Hanamurawas against Shinjiro Aragaki. In these cases, Yusuke, Akihiko, Naoto, and Yosuke all turned out as the winners.
Many were surprised to see Akechi lose the poll, with many others being excited forPersona’soriginal detective princeto come out on top. Many of Akechi’s fans in turn created the hashtag #GoodbyeGoro to mourn his relatively early loss in the 2021Personaawards. A number of these fans have also changed their icon to an edit of Akechi bleeding that was created by Twitter user @irlgoroakechi.
Searching this tag will yield eulogy videos, fan art, and people outside of the Persona fanbase confusing Goro Akechi forGoro Majima fromYakuzaand Goro fromMortal Kombat. In response to the trending tag, thePersonaAwards Twitter account gave Akechi an honorary victory for managing to become number five on Twitter’s trending tags. This, however, will not let him go forward in the polls and will still allow Naoto Shirogane to move on to round three.
In addition to all of the Goro Akechi love being spread throughout Twitter, this trending hashtag has also brought a lot of attention over to thePersonaAwards and will likely result in more votes coming in future rounds. It is very unlikely that another character will shake Twitter likeGoro Akechi, but anything can happen involving these polls as what has been already seen from thePersona 5fanbase.
