proceeds to always top the charts of every media every single time

This is at least in large part not true. This series specifically was a useless money sink on release and probably still is, and "socially progressive" media (whether genuinely or more often disingenuously) does way better. It's more popular to have an affectation of progressivism because minorities can also give you money, the loss of frothing chuds (who are usually only lost in part) is offset by performative libs, and normal people aren't put off by it the same way as they will be by, for example, the Run Hide Fight sequel coming up. Obviously media can't be "too" progressive, and there are stark exceptions like with the subject of the military, but in terms of how it relates to mainstream society within the imperial core, it leans on the "SJW" side to use your turn of phrase.

I don't know who is gaslighting you on this subject, since chuds and libs frequently agree that the libs are more popular and they are correct in this case. There are some chuds who do silent majority rhetoric, but even at the Daily Wire the official line is that it's basically an even split in terms of the population but lib media is way more successful (they have explicitly discussed this to justify their media ventures), which is downplaying that they are also a minority popularly, but is nonetheless closer to the truth than "chuds are widely beloved in every facet of media and have a superior standing to libs".

Obviously god helped them /s