>>38300697Incorrect, 1990s-2000s pokémania died when Brock and Misty said goodbye in the TV show. That was when genwunners decided to tune out and close the book on pokemon as a completed story.
The Twitch marathons proved this. There were genwunners whose interest was revived by PoGo that kept watching into the hoenn league up until the voice acting changed. They recognized the mons in the show from the Hoenn releases in PoGo.
It had little to nothing to do with the GBA games. In fact, I knew genwunners in the day that saw the Hoenn starters and predicted that the franchise would just keep on sharting out pokemon until it's no longer profitable. With that sentiment alone they quit pokemon. It had nothing to do with the GBA, and some of them I knew had GBAs anyway to play their GBC games on. GBAs were not the issue and you honestly sound like a zoomer LARPing as a boomer.
Sinnoh killed most of the remaining stragglers that were iffy on Hoenn, because that's when the franchise had to go into reboot mode and start making up deity crrationist bullshit. It killed the comfy feeling of a universe where religion wasn't an argument or issue and spergs didn't start saying "oh my arceus" similar to bronies using "everypony" just to be quirky ecksdee.
Ash's terrible win rate in the Sinnoh league also really disgusted people, and the final league battle was total bullshit. Even if you didn't play the games and just watched the show, seeing Ash lose 4 leagues (with the fourth one being totally unfair) would be more than enough to see the pattern that Ash's quest is a joke.
Anyone else left on the ride either started with gen 3 onwards or is dedicated to stay on the ride until it finally crashes and burns.
