Who did vote in those popularity ranking? Just because 100 or 1000 people are voting, their opinion doesn't represent the opinion of other 1000 people who didn't vote ( since not everyone is on Reddit or on other social media platforms. ) These kind of results are not accurate and doesn't say anything about the general popularity of a person.
It's like those people on twitter, who think they proved a point because their post got 1K + likes/retweets, yet in reality they only reached the people who are on twitter. There are over 7 billion people on this planet, what about their opinion?
Wikipedia stats on Langviews Analysis. Not voting, just the raw figures of how many times the skaters' individual wiki pages were looked at in the period in question. Sure, it's nothing to write a dissertation on, being only one incomplete factor - no way to estimate how much people looked at pages linked to the skater - and no hard and fast proof (which is pretty well impossible, as ESPN acknowledged in their Fame list last year when trying to crunch numbers. And they actually had Yuzuru in their top 100 even though alone among the 100 he uses no social media at all). Plus it doesn't include the fact that Japan, Korea and China use different platforms, but it's something more than hearsay and trying to compare endorsement appeal. People who are interested in a celebrity/sports star will very often head to wikipedia.
I looked them up out of interest as the reddit one was for the last five years and I thought something more recent would show how the newbies were doing as well.