People like things that are attractive, including faces. You could almost say that people are *attracted* to those types of things.
It's not social media; it's human nature. For the most part, people are going to choose the faces that are attractive. Occasionally, there'll be some other choices, sure, but those will typically be made because of flavor or humor.
Personally, I find a lack of attractive human faces all around, but especially in the male category.
Social media is a very good study on human nature, considering all the profiling of users. But if you want to know what your players prefer, gather the data directly from the game (which is what Larian is doing) instad of looking at twitter posts.
I meant Larian will have metrics from people’s choices in the game, not from scouring social media. Although, who knows…
For me the issue with character creation is that there are only two male and female voices to choose from, and this is where their data gathering will fail, because if you want to make e.g. an gruff-sounding dwarf, you just can't.
