From 50K to 8.2 Million in 24 Hours: Vozinha's Algorithmic Consecration and the Multilingual Making of World Cup Visibility

Summary

Pilot study of the multilingual frames constructing Vozinha’s visibility during the 2026 World Cup.

Manuscript available as a preprint. This record does not imply journal publication or peer review.

Method / approach

Computational discourse analysis in Portuguese, Spanish, English and French; AI-assisted annotation with human validation.

Contribution

Examines how narratives and platform metrics participate in constructing visibility.

Interpretation limits

Pilot preprint v0.1. Follower counts include estimates, not a continuous API series. Full double annotation and inter-annotator agreement are listed as future work.

Citation

Covas, V. (2026). From 50K to 8.2 Million in 24 Hours: Vozinha's Algorithmic Consecration and the Multilingual Making of World Cup Visibility [Preprint]. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.19647