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Charizard and blastoise were neck and neck in the 90s. Either you were a blastoise kid or a charizard kid, venusaur kids were just trying to be different and contrarian on purpose.
The recent bulbasaur popularity is from people trying too hard to not like what is popular and good by bandwagoning what used to be the unpopular opinion. It's basically just trying to be a cool hipster that's "different from other gen wunners"