>>4690424890% of pokemon fanbase since the 90s have been normalfag millenials who memoryholed every archetype except "literally my mom's recolored zoo animal" and thus perpetuate this misguided notion that Pokemon has always been and only should be a zoo sim and not what tajiri always meant for it to be, which is a kid version of Dungeons and Dragons, which involves other non standard non animal things like mimics, inanimate objects, and other cryptids and creatures that arent furry and on 4 legs.
Unfortunately a few choice favorites became the shill leaders in marketing and so GF continues to perpetuate it as well. Every time you see someone seethe about gears or ice cream remember that their fave pokemon is probably just an eeveelution or some random tepid shit.
Hell even on this board you still see these exact same people flinging shit in threads and when they get challenged into a debate their only defense is "w-well I just dont LIKE them because thats not what I think Pokemon is about!". Really room temp IQ discourse like that.
