>>44221146Every time you see kids trading pokemon in the early games, they are just sitting there with their gameboys. That's why trading isn't as simple as handing each other the pokemon, it requires a lot of bullshit because it's all a virtual game. Pokemon has always been about pokemania in a world where Pokemon Go has advanced virtual reality.
Whitney literally says "Everyone was into Pokemon, so I decided to give it a try! I'm warning you, I'm good!". Typical girl, only got into pokemon because it's popular. But the important part is that she treats it like a thing people are into, some kind of fad, a game. These creatures don't actually exist as their version of animals.
