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Are the autistic the reason why the Pokemon franchise is kept alive to this day?
Since gen 2 started to lose steam, pokemon stopped being relevant in pop culture and pokemania died. Well, except for them who bought gen 3 games.
R&S sold a massive 16 million units during its original release, for a game series that were destined for an early death it's huge. Where did these 16 million come from? Not from the mainstream who hated pokemon with passion at the time but from the social outcasts, the autistics.
Well, look at /vp/. This board here is still obsessed with the crippling mainline games and merchandize of fictional creatures/waifus. TCPi stayed afloat in the long run thanks to revenues from obsessive fans (Pokemon Go died off too early to have any relevance for the mainstream).
For a media franchise that has been stigmatized since the early 2000s still surpass Star Wars in revenue. It just proves that even people that have no social clues and social skills for functioning in society have the power to affect how corporations operate. Even for the worse.
