I did my best to make this review as spoilerfree as possible even though the storys strongest points are unrelated to its predictability. I did not expect much from Who Can Define Popularity. Initially I thought the story concept seemed a bit cheesy. Overweight guy transforms himself and his life and a chance encounter makes a handsome guy obsessed with him And then what? They play a game of push and pull until they finally get together then the main characters dark past gets exposed and their relationship goes into jeopardy Oh no Yeah... no. I hope this doesnt count as a spoiler but that is not what happens at all. The male leads are incredibly narcissistic. Theyre both really beautiful and aware of it which is okay but for the first duration where the author was still introducing characters... they were so full of themselves it was comedic. I thought that the rest of the story would be very shallow since the character felt about as deep as a pancake. Flat. I ended up briefly dropping the story and rating it 3/10 until I reflected a bit on why I thought the story was so bad... then decided to give it another chance. I am very glad I decided to give this beautiful story another chance. First of all the characters are not very unique but that is not a negative point. It is the character relationships which are what make the story special. As the story progresses the relationships unfold very beautifully with characters building each other up and growing together because of the relationships they build. Even side characters were made to learn from each other. It felt refreshing to read a story with average people even if their looks or wealth arent average which had no tragedy or drama rather it was an entertaining story about young adults growing as people. The characters get a 6/10 from me but the character interactions are 9/10. The artstyle was very fitting for the story. It was both beautiful and cute. It was funny heartwarming and melting and breaking and entertaining. It also was quite different from the usual artstyle in this genre which I appreciated but it might not suit everyones tastes. Regardless I give it a 10/10. The plot was good but I struggle to find anything about it that would make me want to recommend others to read it. The pacing of the story was really nice. At first I read 10 chapters thinking they were less and thats when I dropped it because I thought the characters and story were too shallow to go on and when I picked it up again I read 60 more and finished the story before realising it. My only complaint is that I wanted to read more before the story was concluded but the ending was satisfying so this is not a point of criticism. The story itself gets a 7/10 from me. I started reading this expecting a romance but reading it felt more like reading a comedy and slice of life with some romance. The romance was a significant part of the story and there is definitely more than enough of it for the story to be a romance but building the romance was not the only focus of the story. I loved that.