It would be cool if because hexbear shows up on yandex and not google we got an influx of non-western users. Bonus points if it's commies from AES states that come in to call us libs and to do better.
Only Russia/USSR-adjacent countries use Yandex, and even then it’s even competition with Google, which dominates >90% of the global market. The only market that Google could not penetrate is China, which uses Baidu mostly.
It is unlikely that these Russian-speaking people search in English terms though (might as well use Google), so the chances of reaching a large audience through Yandex search is very small.
On the other hand, it does show that Putin likes to browse Hexbear more than the grad (no shade to our grad comrades, Putin simply likes the contents on Hexbear better).
Can't wait for russiagate 2024: Ummm they undermined biden with all the hexbear posts. Its made hillary relive the horrific trauma that she was subjected to and us fans have had to go through it again. GODDAMNIT PUTLER 🤬