>>58235837Very True about Whimsicott. Thing is, despite all the potentially problematic things about Whimiscott, the final design just ended up as a Sanrio-esque blob. Also, BW was over 15 years ago, the world was very different, Pokémon fans were different. Hell, had mega scrafty come out back then looking how all the predictions say it will, the fandom as a whole would have gone out of their way to distance it from the Klan thing and focus more on the shedding skin aspect
>>58235779Pokémon consumers launched a viral hate campaign against a badger in because of a scrapped writing exercise. And the fallout from that still hasn’t subsided. Pokemon is the one franchise where the soulless corporation is full of better people than the fanbase
