>>54423707Doesn't make them anything less than a mememon, especially when they led with the three most popular pets for little japanese boys as starter choices, nor indeed stopped them making Mewtwo Gengar and other humanoids the same gen.
But again, nostalgiafilter of the afterbirths indicate "these are acceptable memes, the others aren't because I'm alive to see them meme muh toyz".
And the other two are world building - people got the idea for ice-cream off vanilluxe and just like in perfect kanto, people's rubbish became a sentient pokémon and started existing as part of the universe (which acts as both the slime expy in-game and can be a mimic expy in-universe, if thye binman's not paying attention and grabs a bag to sling it in the back).
