>>58784500This is bullshit
See
>>58784499May was the fucking anime co-protagonist for four years, in a period when the anime and movies, while not like during the Pokémania, were still relevant. And she was notoriously sexualized there. Just check any of her generals. Sapphire also enjoyed popularity in the period Pokespe was the most relevant: the 2000s. She constantly got an huge amount of fan arts. If anything, her popularity faded away in the late 2000s up until ORAS.
Don't pretend you were there.
