Thanks for the comment! The 'research' was automated with a web scraper; I didn't enter all 3k ships by hand. It would be nice to have a fan image for each ship, yes, but like you said getting the rights would be tough. The other big problem with that is that some ships only occur in NSFW works.
As for the scoring, it's based on the ratio of the number of works featuring the ship to the number of works featuring the characters in the ship. The data was pulled from Gelbooru. I was originally going to add AO3 as well, but the graph after scraping Gelbooru was already dense enough.
As for the scoring, it's based on the ratio of the number of works featuring the ship to the number of works featuring the characters in the ship. The data was pulled from Gelbooru. I was originally going to add AO3 as well, but the graph after scraping Gelbooru was already dense enough.