>>27077254this to be honest
I remember in middle school when Diamond and Pearl came out and all the cool kids were playing it.
In high school they made us wear our school IDs on lanyards in my second year, and the popular people started a trend of putting a pokemon card on the back side of the ID holder.
When I started college like 5 years ago playing pokemon and decorating your dorm door with pokemon pictures was the "fun and quirky" thing to do.
Pokemon is in the same tier as Halo and Game of Thrones. No matter how autistic you can be about it, it's 100% normie.
