>>55946381Yeah, but it's part of the broader discussion re: that seething XY thread above. Bitter folks will find any reason to rage at cartoons people like. BW was fairly mid, but because it followed DP and especially once it preceded XY, it got the black sheep label and overhated. The "Iris is the brown Misty" meme got repeated so often that it became internalized pretty much until JN caused a reevaluation of Iris and an upswing in popularity and art for her. Even the virtually nonexistent AshxIris ship probably got more material from JN than it did from BW.
As for XY, it seems a combination of pre-XY oldfags who felt threatened by Serena and still haven't let it go and post-XY newfags who can't cope with the fact that it had more genuine popularity than what they're trying to discuss now, so they lash out; and as seems to be par for the course with zoomers, they're incapable of talking positively about the present without needing to contrast it with the past, which they must revise as bad because reasons. The idea of liking multiple things across multiple generations and concluding that your favorite/the best thing isn't the current thing is completely alien to them.