It was a battle of fandoms when Twitter erupted with hashtags and trending topics for Janella Salvador, Janine Gutierrez, Liza Soberano, and Nadine Lustre, who were announced as nominees for the Favorite Filipino Star award at Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards 2017.
Since it is an online popularity contest, it’s quite a challenge to predict on who’s going to win. It’s good to note that these celebrity nominees all have a massive following on social media. Janella, for instance, has the biggest fan base on Twitter with 2 million followers and she’s got 2.9 million fans on Instagram. On Facebook, she has two unofficial fan pages, which have more than 200,000 fans and likers each.
The other half of JaDine is an influential personality on different social media platforms having 3.4 million active followers on Instagram, 1.3 million on the microblogging site, and 1.6 million Facebook fans. Meanwhile, Kapuso star Janine maintains a decent following on Twitter (78,000), Facebook (72,000) and Instagram (318,000).
But if we are going to talk about social media presence and influence, it’s Liza who is the runaway winner. Among the nominees, she is the most popular on Instagram (4.9 million followers) and Facebook (2.9 million fans). On Twitter, she has over 1.5 million active followers.
In 2015, Daniel Padilla was the one who won the Orange Blimp, which earned him a nomination for Favorite Asian Act at the 2015 KCA. Although he lost to Indonesian group JKT48, he did not go home empty-handed because it was him who won the Nickelodeon’s Global Slime Star recognition.
Last year, Kathryn Bernardo, James Reid, Enrique Gil, and Maine Mendoza were vying for the Favorite Pinoy Personality award. Propelled by her online popularity, Maine was the one who took home the coveted iconic blimp.
This year, fans can vote for their Favorite Pinoy Star and in the other categories on the Nickelodeon Asia website or through Twitter and Facebook using the special Kids’ Choice Awards hashtag and the hashtag of their favorite nominee.
For the Favorite Pinoy Star category, the hashtag is “#KCAPinoyStar.”
The 2017 Kids’ Choice Awards will be hosted by John Cena and will be held at the USC’s Galen Center in Los Angeles on March 13. So, who do you think will win and who will you vote for?