popularity is not the sole thing you want to chase, my friend.
Learned this the hard way with Discord; made me one of the most hated people alive in that community at one point.
The best people are the ones you can connect with, not ones who are only really treated as number, statistics, whatnot.
Popularity is natural, of course, but from what I learned, it can be very draining to have to live up to those kinds of expectations. Are you sure u want to go through with this kind of approach?