>>36469892Pokemon as a franchise was never good, all it did was take a novel concept and tone it down for children while being the first to do so on a handheld platform.
You just bought into it like everyone else because you had no choice but to cave in or you'd be a "loser" for not following the current trend thanks to the extreme marketing buzz ensuring everyone at the time was a Pokemaniac.
But since you didn't want to give up the investments you made once you were suddenly a "loser" for liking Pokemon when you originally weren't, you stuck with the franchise until long after being a loser or not mattered, and you simply kept consuming media because that's all you knew how to do.
It's people like
me that helped make this franchise into the gargantuan, uncaring, eternally profitable cash cow it is today, and even if you've given up on it anytime between Gen 2 and now, the damage has already been done.
