>>54831231I've known genwunners irl from the time BW just came out. It was more obvious back then it was obnoxious 90s kid normies throwing a fit about how the franchise changed without them and they were annoying cunts who invaded fandom spaces they hardly belonged in and felt like they had a right to say shit because Pokemon was their le ebin nostalgic childhood but probably didn't even know that the franchise kept going past Crystal. It was annoying for regular fans keeping up with the series because a bunch of shitters that don't even give a shit about video games anymore saw that BW was coming out and decided to trash on it just because it was unfamiliar and new. Said genwunners are basically the reason GF had to shill Charizard, Pikachu, Gengar, and Eevee so hard just to please the whiny fuckers that were still mad that, and I quote a real genwunner about this, "Ash, Misty, and Brock aren't in the games anymore." If that doesn't tell you that they only cared about the anime in the first place and probably never actually played the games, then I don't know what does.
Anyways, that being said, genwunners do exist like this but they're way less prevalent than they used to be. I think so many of them got older and stopped caring about such pointless bullshit/accepted the flow of time and got so busy having an adult life that there's hardly ever any time to shitpost about ice cream and trash bags anymore. As for the ones left that genuinely think the first games were the best games, I don't really care about them or any (pokemon gen here) elitists because at least most turbo autists know what they're fucking talking about to begin with.