User blog comment:PhoenixDragonSamurai/Beth vs Cody/@comment-1037137-20140808061634/@comment-24152851-20140808075648

Oh really you're saying Cody was on top of everyone's list after TDI, where he barely existed. No, everyone was obsessed with Gwen, Heather and Owen. TDI was new back then and not everyone even watched the series from start to finish, and many wouldn't even have known he existed.

But come TDWT, you had no chance of missing him since he was there the whole time. That's when people really started to notice him.