The most notable was Genshin Revenue tracker which pretty much showed every male banner pretty much flopping. Despite Wanderer doing well when he first releases, his second banner flopped.
So every male banner flopped, except when they didn't flop, and if it flopped with a waifu it's not the waifu's fault despite selling less than the male character on her first banner?
Banners don't exist in a vaacum. The top banner is Hutao + Yelan because it was lantern rite + anniversary aka chinese holiday + top up reset + most broken weapon banner yet. Ayaka's rerun presumably counts covid making her banner last 2 months.
You say "wanderer rerun floped lol" but that was wanderer with kokomi (who is the lowest solo release banner ever there) on 3.8 filler patch after fontaine units were all revealed. I didn't play that patch because i switched to star rail. I don't think i was the only one either.
And i'll actually defend kokomi because it wasn't her fault, if (reminder we are all guessing here) she sold bad it's because she never stood a chance against Raiden (and her weapon is GARBAGE). She sold more on their rerun, or at least on theory, assuming the numbers were not carried by everyone rolling for Raiden or raiden c2.
All i'm saying is that this is all still alleged third party projections. We are all agenda posting here.
Lighter was probably only upgraded to fill a slot since they did a sort of relaunch and pushed back their first rerun to 1.5. A lot of stuff was shuffled around in ZZZ. Trigger was probably meant for 2.x but they added an extra patch to work on stuff and she (with Sanby) was a filler.
If ZZZ is having a "relaunch that changed stuff" then Lighter being turned in the first 5* limited husbando to attract women makes sense. A free harumasa and sexy vampire with shirtless scenes wasn't omni-pandering? At least tell me lighter flopped or something.
I expect people to say Hugo sold bad because he's coming before 2.0 and Yu Xuan who is being marketed so hard with her fighting miyabi just so sell how overpowered and uber strong she is (they want the powerscaler crowd).
And like troon whisperer said, some characters don't need to directly sell banners to make profit when they can sell merch. Childe for example has a lot of official merchandise and even a figure. I think it's crazy that the only 5* skin in the game is for Diluc and no waifus but, unlike your average redditor, i assume the billionaire company knows better than me.
All i'm getting here is that Kaveh is so thrash he killed the game! Well, it's most likely because Star Rail released and stole a chunk of genshin players... But i want to blame kaveh because it's funny and he's bad.