>>56648107>Cynthia was just a fan favorite champion, the games never hyped her up to the skies the same way.Exactly the point.
People on their own started to think "dang, Cynthia's sure strong she's perhaps even the strongest trainer of them all!"
And they obviously picked up on it, because otherwise we wouldn't have had Cynthia appearing as a surprise motherfucker post-game boss in BW, nor would she have been on the Battle Tree too, nor would she have been 2nd place on the Master 8, nor would she have gotten such extremely tryhard teams on BDPS, nor would they have had a Red vs Cynthia event on Mastersex, nor we would have Volo.
Cynthia started to get shoved down people's throat because they realized people liked Cynthia and even so when you think about it Cynthia has truly not gotten VIP treatment like Red or Leon have in that regard. They've not yet truly committed to wanking her.
Meanwhile Leon was shoved down your throat from day 1 in the most transparent of ways like
>>56647812 said.
I'm not gonna comment on Red much because he has First Protagonist Privilege. And in all honestly the way he's pushed as DA STWONGEST, specially on Mastersex, just for that, when all other MCs have way bigger feats that him is pretty cringe too.
It's the difference between organic popularity and artificial popularity. Between what fans came to believe on on their vs what the company wants you to believe. And look, now even fujos and yumes have moved on to Rika and Kira while Cynthiafags are still Cynthiafagging. Hell, even Redfags are still Redfagging. The second Gen 8 all the Leonfaggotry considerable diminished everywhere you look.
