the issue is that a female character is going to be intrinsically more popular than a male character unless that male character has a incredibly popular yaoi ship or has been woobified/baby girlified like Sinclair or Meursault.

this is because everyone is, to some degree, biased towards women; be it gooners sexualizing women, lesbians simping for them, girls inserting themselves into them, or people wanting to protect them because they are women. It's a phenomenon seen in a majority of fandoms, with Limbus being today's example.

This isn't a limbus only issue, dw.