>>38729842Americans, too. Obviously for whatever reason you missed Pokemania, which means you're probably too young to post on this board. But sure, I'll bite at your shitty bait post.
Remember that age when the rampant, shameless, life-draining commercialism of everything that we have today was new and fresh and not so threatening? That was the 90s.
Pokemania was a great example of exactly this. They pitched that shit so hard there are probably people living on the MOON that eat, sleep and breathe pokemon even though there aren't any people living on the moon. It was THAT popular.
An entire generation of children was pitched shows, games and merchandise from the franchise in a way that shit like Tetris or the Rubik's Cube never was. Sure, those things were advertised, but Pokemon was a full-on propaganda campaign. If you were a parent, it was the shit every kid wanted. If you were a kid, it was the shit every other kid had. EVERYONE, and I do mean everyone, bought the games. Not everybody watched the show, but even the normiest of normies collected and traded Pokemon cards and played the games.
We have corporate shilling, and brainwashed corporate dicksuckers in the modern age, but not like it was back before people learned that it was a threat to their privacy, security and personal rights and that most of these big corporate interests are just interested in robbing you blind through your kids.
Back then, we all embraced it wholeheartedly, still believing that America's free market could do no wrong. How wrong we were.
