>>27620555I think it is overblown at this point. I see a few obvious troll threads here and there, where someone pretends to be a "genwunner", and then everyone blows up on the OP. It is actually "cool" to hate the first generation of pokemon now, because of its popularity and age. (Sort of how you can find Generation Z kids that will say the Beetles were an absolute shit band).
Most of the people on this board have unironically become what they hated. Now spewing the term "genwunners" with the same hatred you'd expect out of a southern clansmen. Hating a group of Pokemon because of what it symbolizes, while heralding the newer generations that they remember as their "originals", and crying at every new game mechanic, and new Generation that follows.