>>50475919While this is a fun conspiracy, the actual truth is that Pokemon fans are a bunch of sheep who'll just follow whatever the latest eceleb says, especially if it's some kind of hot take that challenges generally agreed notions.
Most Pokemon content creators and fans are genuinely too dumb to do any kind of proper design analysis, so the moment someone like Jan comes along being able to kind of critically analyse it and explain his points they cling to it like gospel because he's the only person making that kind of content.
And to be fair, this is a problem with most gaming fanbases really, not just Pokemon.
