>>53146800The Internet reflects on how people think. This isn't the 90s where Internet usage was limited, this is an age where people have easy access to the Internet and Reddit, YouTube and TikTok are vast platforms. For example there's millioners that emerged from these platforms just because how widespread and important they are.
So yes what information you see spread there does reflect genuine belief. You can't strip Pokémon out of their context by simply trying to deconstruct it as "x Pokémon is actually y" like the OP. Pokémon as a concept is meticulous in the way it constructs Pokémon and in turn it shapes up how people percieve Pokémon. This is why I often bring out how our avaliable data shows how very popular the eeveelutions are but also patterns in Pokémon sexualization which dispell a good number of notions people here often. try to peddle.
Because of the memes produced, the perception of Pokémon and possibly other things I haven't checked you have a series where attraction ro the thing in the OP is even equated to attraction to quadraped Pokémon like Vaporeon. Their identity as Pokémon comes first and foremost over apperance, which is also something the series strongly builts on so imo it's futile trying to present things that way in a Pokémon context.
