>>52740572The shipping autism of the Pokemon fanbase has a long and complicated history.
The short version: bringing back Misty as a protag leads to a massive instability of a multi-decade autismal cold war that’s been taking place in the assholes of the internet since the early 00’s. Mistyfag schizophrenia is an ancient evil long thought sealed away, and the new generations of fans, having successfully fended them off, were raised to be incredibly defensive and loud. Now that she’s back, the autismic force of boom vs zoom leads to really insane levels of cope from the outside looking in. Sorry you have to see that. It’ll all be over soon.
