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>>44525573
Rumia has a pretty huge, steady fanbase. A lot of fangames centered around her (Yoyami Dancers for a recent one, but there was also a dev who made several fangames with Rumia as the protagonist), the girl with the most days dedicated to her on the Touhou calendar (12, the 7th of every month).
In the 2022 Popularity poll, she ranked 17th. Do you know who she was 49 points away from beating (which is a very negligeable gap when these two have 5293 & 5342 points respectively)? Yukari. Not to speak of the many important characters beneath her, not a single character from UFO (included) and beyond is above her.
Make of that what you want, I think tribalism between new and old is the last thing the Touhou community needs, as I enjoy all generations of Touhou myself, but the point is Rumia is very popular, although perhaps not as much in the west?
Another neat stat related trivia, Touhou Station, hosted by JudasMario and cohosts, asked overseas fans to answer a couple of questions, one of which was to give your favorite Touhou character. There were a few thousand voters, and while we only know of the Top 10 which Rumia did not make, 1st in the actual popularity poll and 7th, the Scarlet sisters, did not make Top 10 on this, neither of them. It is a little bit of a stretch but I do believe there is some overlap between fans of the Scarlet sisters and Rumia fans, so I would gauge that Rumia is not as popular in the overseas fanbase, which is why you may have been led to believe what you do.