why is TenZ so popular? (not a hate thread)

genuinely a curious question because ive never seen someone be so popular esports-wise yet is hardly close to being the GOAT. The guy's popularity shot up in CS despite winning pretty much nothing, transferred to Valorant and won a Masters + two challengers with SEN, then continued to do nothing for the next two years up until now. After all of that he somehow has the popularity equivalent to Jesus Christ when there are players out there who've done way more than him across both games yet they can barely hold a candle to his fame. Like you look at other guys like Faker, s1mple, b4nny, etc and you can understand why they're all the most popular esport figures for their respective games, it's because they're the GOATs. You can chalk it all down to branding but the fact that the branding itself was such an immense success is the question im asking.

Is it because he appeals to weebs or something? A lot of TenZ fans I've seen have a taste for anime in some form, and it makes a lot of sense to see how he got so popular from it especially when there's not many pro players out there that would rep anime pfps + the fact that both CS and Valorant have like a billion weebs playing. This shit boggles my mind because pretty much every new player hearing about TenZ would immediately assume that he's the best player but that's not the case at all and then they start to question why is it like that. He isn't even a particularly interesting or unique streamer either, like why do we care so much about this guy?

lots of reasons.

his personality attracts a lot of viewers. his streams are chill and he’s overall a likable person. no major controversies or toxicity.

his playstyle is also very flashy. he’s very fun to watch and he’s pretty mechanically gifted.

dude also won the first major international lan and mvpd. no one has been able to replicate his stats since. people still think highly of him for that.

a talented hard working chill guy who's not toxic or boring and he is actually the player with the highest rating of all time till this moment and at the beginning of the esports scene he was propably the best player to watch

It's the NA fans, they know that the tournament tenz won was the only legitimate one. Rest all they fluked (down vote me for spitting facts) . After realizing this harsh reality they decided to stay in the past and support tenz.

cause NA dickriding is insane tenz is a bot and even tier 3 turkey duelists clears him

Chill dude, flashy playstyle, mechanically gifted, bro won the first masters with crazy numbers. Kind of reminds me of someone who recently became popular overnight because of his flashy playstyle (zmjjkk).

He was the first super insane player in Val. He already had hype for his mechanics in CS, and was easily the most mechanically gifted player in the very first stages in val. He was the first announced the C9's pro val team and was the first player to hit radiant. His hype was because when Val first started he was the best player in the world no questions asked.

he was a big cs streamer since he streamed all the time, and grew popular from clips blowing up on reddit.

he was one of the first people to start playing valorant, and streamed a lot there, which grew his viewbase from the start.
he was also one of the first pros in valorant, competing in every early tournament, so he blew up even more.

he perfected the mechanics of the game too quick so he was at the top at the early stages of the game. since he was owning everyone back then lots of people started to look up to him and watch his streams which are fun and hes a chill guy whos not toxic and just became the face of valorant