>>59011782there's only so much you can understand if you were not there
explanatory gaps have to be filled in by inside knowledge and experience
take poketubing: alive and well during Gen IV thanks to wifi battle posting
come Gen V, hardly anyone is watching content
then Gen VI brought an explosion of interest such that even Verlisify could ride the hype to become at that time the most widely watched poketuber in the space (started his channel in/for Gen VI)
Gen V was a literal dark age for Pokemon where interest in the franchise was at its lowest
XY wasn't even released in an anniversary year and still features the now infamous kanto pandering and oldgen megas quite evidently as a desparate bid to win back consumer trust lost directly because of BW (and now so we discuss indirectly too because of HGSS's own subparity)
