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This whole starter shitting only started (heh) because upon seeing that the Charmander line was incompetent compared to the other starters back in RBY, Charmanderfags wouldn't seetle with just having the most popular and cooler starter, no, picking chamander should also be the best and true way to experience RBY, which is why they created the hard mode cope to validate their choice of not being able to one shot Brock without overleveling.
And like most 90s kids, they would ""bully"" anyone they didn't like and since Squirtle was also popular people would aim towards bulbasaur instead, and that habit didn't die until late 2010s (i'm being generous), now most bulbasaurfags are spiteful that think they should get back at those who "wronged" them.
Funny enough, since squirtle was always the silver medal/middle child, Blastoisefags ended up becoming pretty chill like that anon said.
