>>54065301>I'm convinced you were not in the Pokémon anime fandom during 2013 - 2015 when even PokeShippers did the same thing and were still doing it since people shipped Ash x May in the 2000s?You outright admitted that you only joined the fandom during XY and that Amour was the first ship you ever really got to know. By contrast, while I never had an account in the forums, I was in the fandom since at least 2006. I've been around long enough to remember when SOVA was a thing and the VA switch happened. That's how long I've been around.
The difference between those Pokeshippers and you is that most, if not almost all of them, never treated Pokeshipping as if it was their life. They thought shipping Ash and Misty was cute, and they were visibly disappointed when Misty left. Many left the anime altogether due to changing interests, while others continued on. However, they didn't spend entire days on their computers talking about how much they loved Misty, how they thought that Misty was perfect and had no flaws whatsoever. They were just regular people with an interest, but they also had a real life, as in either they had jobs or they were students. They weren't NEETs who spent early mornings or late nights doing nothing but fight people who hate Misty, unlike you fighting Serena critics or Mr. F shitting on anyone who hates Ash.