>>51625462Except Pokemon aren't real. When it comes to fiction the in-universe is always going to matter because these are not real, tangible creatures you can study. We only have what the creators want us to see them as and we have people who have worked on the series pretty much spill it out. This is why people see pokephilia as bestiality sometimes, no matter which pokemon, because people see pokemon as fictional animals which is exactly what the people working on. the series have expressed pokemon as. On the other side because of this there's almost no stigma attached to how a pokemon looks. Most normos aren't going to care that much if the fictional animal they want to bone resembles a real one or not, plus vaporeon is completely made up, and this is exactly how it translates in the real world dear anon. Real people are making these memes, real people are taking part of these polls and real people are reacting to them. When people think of pokephilia they're going to think attraction to gardevoir, lopunny and vaporeon as the main ones. Results like here with ninetales shows that it's genuine that normos are attracted to four legged pokemon because normos see pokemon as animal adjacent creatures more than anything else. As I said all the Pokemon only in the human-like group have some pretty bad smash percents which shows people don't actually care that much. The gap between ninetales and gardevoir is only 14% meanwhile the gap between it and medicham is almost 50% and with gothielle 30%. Normos do not care about that and that's why it isn't really a thing you can't handwave it away because you want to create a non-existant arbitrary distinction that normos nor pokemon care about.
