Team Onodera vs. Team Chitoge

A Twitch Chat Story

I’ve collected Twitch chat messages from the #riotgames channel between January 14th, 2016 and February 7th, 2016. While glancing over the data, I’ve noticed that the chat kept arguing over whether Onodera or Chitoge is the better girl. Since I’ve nothing better to do a Sunday night, I thought I’ll figure out the answer.

The Dataset

I’ve searched my database for all messages that contained “onodera” or “chitoge”. In total, there were 4116 messages stored about the two girls.

Labeling

We apply very simple rules to find if a message supports Chitoge. When a message did not support either girl (i.e. says only negative things about them) I just ignored it.

Contains only “chitoge”, “chitogewin” Has “team chitoge”, “chitoge master race”, “chitoge boys” or similar variants Follows “chitoge > X”, “chitoge … best …” or similar patterns

Any message that didn’t fall under these categories were then manually labelled. Turns out this number is actually really small, I’ve at most gone through ~100 messages.

Results

First and foremost, some fun stats:

Total number of labeled messages: 3431 out of 4116.

So 83% of the messages were strictly cheering for one of the girls. The remaining 17% were either derogatory or just making fun of the whole thing.

Total number of unique authors: 1018.

Well, with almost 4 times as many messages as authors, this means that a lot of chat users just repeat their text. In fact, only 54% of the writers typed just one message. The remaining 46% of the authors posted on average 6 messages, with a standard deviation of 10.

Number of self-contradicting authors: 220.

Out of 1018 authors, 220 flip-flopped between Onodera and Chitoge. Not that surprising, 22% of the contributors are trolls.

Alright, now that we know we have 798 fair voters; we can finally calculate the results:

Chitoge votes: 592 .

. Onodera votes: 206.

Congratulations, #TEAMCHITOGE you won with 74% the Twitch chat hunger games!