User blog comment:Flagator24/Dawn - why is she so popular?/@comment-24784093-20191004090956

Easy: same reason Noah was popular even before TDWT, Eva becoming popular nowdays, and the rest on the unmerged ROTI cast memebers: limited screentime

characters with short screentime make people more curious about them because they want to see more and know more about them. At some point people had enough from the same five characters that are shoved to our throat every single time. From ROTI cast we are talking about the trio+Scott. People had enouth of them and really want to see more of the wasted potential in B, Dawn, Brick, Dakota, Anne Maria and even Sam (the ROTI version of him at least).

But the writers of the show cares only about the trio + Scott and the fans never get to see the unmerged again. So the best thing they can do is just be fans of them.

and about Dawn, it seems the writers put too many thinking and lore about character with short screentime. Very odd choice to do. Blame the writers for creating her. Not the fans who are curious about her. I mean, they writers scrapped original Zoey for creating Dawn.