>>54204787If you're a responsible interesting smiling person with more hobbies than just pokemon, if you take care of yourself and try to look nice, if you're like that, liking pokemon will be seen as another cool thing about you.
They won't expect it and when they get to know that you, Anon, the cool handsome dude who likes X, Y, Z and does X, Y, Z, likes pokemon, it'll be like charming them with a surprise out of expectations and the thing is seen even more positively than something that works within their expectations, therefore pokemon being even more cool than something that should be cool, It's a social psychology thing.