>>50896331Timing. Nintendo became a soiboi/normalfag thing around the release of the Switch and the whole nonstop race thing going around for the last years.
I guarantee a fraction of Nessa fans genuinely believe she's like the first PoC character in Pokémon because most of them only know about Kanto. There was also the kind of people who unironically believed people only hated SwSh (around E3 2019) because they added a brown character so they instantly adored the character because "fuck Nazis or something" in retaliation.
