More often than not really I have seen the media (the western media basically) and ISU claim that nathan was the one to popularize figure skating, at least that's what they did in 2020 award's nominee's bio. The one with "yuRUzu".😓
Even 2022 FaOI needing to use cinema screening, Google credited that to nathan? Ufffff... Also the claim that nathan sold out SOI? What sold out? All I saw was the typical half empty arena🤷♀️.
And now the media's acting like Liu made the sport popular. The AIPS list of 2024 seemed to say otherwise. Like okay you hate yuzu? No problem, but atleast if you wanna credit somebody else, do so with someone credible, like yuna and the Russians.
*on a side note: can somebody do a ratio of popularity with yuzu and Nate, yuzu and ilia, yuzu and alysa??