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about Gholdengo's popularity in the Japanese side of the fandom, there's definitely a circle of dedicated artists and also some new art I can see almost everyday. It's not so popular you see it everywhere like Tinkaton or the starters but content is not scarce either.
Apparently they don't have mascots that look like him over there so there's not as much jokes involving him being compared to the string cheese man, Fido Dido, the Apple Jacks cinnamon guy etc... people who like and draw Gholdengo seem to genuinely like it as a cute/cool Pokemon
suspiciously huge amount of people that want to kiss it and fanart of it kissing/doing questionable things with its trainer. it's not a lot but I don't see this kind of fanbase for other new Pokemon yet (no the coomer furries that will fuck anything don't count)
It might be some sort of husbandomon, people just haven't noticed yet