>>58135643johto's popularity is astroturfed by vocal minority johtoddlers and hgss early zoomers as well as largely piggybacking off the popularity of the quadrilogy as a whole
>Meanwhile XY still hasn't received the same retrospective treatment by the Pokemon community that Gen 5 hasbecause XY was never hated to begin with
it kicked off the renaissance of Pokemon as a dominant cultural force
it's adult borts now who want to rewrite history because they're mad about the actual fact that gen v *was* hated at the time, and still is by everyone but themselves
>is less popular than every region besides perhaps GalarXY does not have a large dedicated fanbase, but nor does it nor did it have a hatebase outside of, again, current zoomer borts
people liked it decently enough as a palate cleanser from gen v which set the bar so low that even a merely okay game like xy was accepted
you would be correct if you merely said hardly anyone loves xy, which most people wouldn't disagree with
