>>47982295They don't care, more often than not you'll be hit with
"Oh I used to LOVE pokemon I played [insert any game before gen 4] my favorite is [insert generic garbage cute mon]."
Then for any following conversation you'll need to dumb down yourself to a fucking normie level knowledge of the series as to not alienate them.
It's miserable and I wish the meme perpetuated by OPs image happened anytime ever so I could just call them a faggot and leave the conversation.