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>>59176769
GenZ have only just caught onto it and it's the current normalfag "I liked it before it was cool" trend to say. As always, they're 15+ years late to the party, like all the Unovalarpers you see these days who say they loved BW and BW2, but don't still have their copies of the games.
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>>59176786
Along those lines, non-Japanese millennials who say "I've been into Pokémon since 96" because they barely actually remember being into Pokémon, how big it was during Y2K, and instetad associate the date with the first dates they found on Google or think that it was a wide simultaneous global release. 99.9999% of them are bullshitters
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>>59176896
I'd say people who lie about how into Pokémon they are for clout.Like you've said, the floor is rock bottom because the franchise is so big and the barrier for entry is basically non-existent since children have only a superficial relationship with the franchise, and would still be considered fans.
I said this in >>59176797, but nothing pisses me off more than people who pretend to have been into it longer than they have. So they outright lie about something that was apparently so important and formative in their lives, that they missed the time period by a three years, because they don't actually remember properly and make things up in an attempt to prove their seniority in the franchise.
It's also with people in the TCG at the moment who've said they were collecting in 98, when even the 1st Edition prints weren't released to the public until January 1999. And I most commonly see this with returning millennials - saying this as a millennial that actually remembers that era as clear as day, from having to mail order myself a copy of Blue from a magazine advert, watching the anime for the first time and recording it on VHS tapes, etc. It was genuinely such a strong formative experience, I do not believe anybody who was genuinely a "huge fan" can get so confused that they misplace the time by three years.
Especially since Power Rangers was the big thing in 95/96. Even South Park's inappropriate childhood boom predates Pokémania. These people typically either have extremely shitty and unreliable memories, or they're fabricating memories when they say they were into Pokémon in 96.
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Millennial genwunners are the biggest one, but zoomers who started with gen 4 have the second highest concentration of larpers who pretend to have a longer connection with the series than they do as if they never dipped out later.
It's not a coincidence DS was the most casual handheld.
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>>59176969
I started with Gen 4 and I never left. I don't claim to have been with the series for longer, but I do have a deep connection with it. I've played all the games, watched most of the anime, read some manga and collected a lot of merch. Am I a larper.
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>>59176933
I don't know if I would say they're better, but aside from the aesthetics/music, I think it's fun to mess around with Gen 2 mechanics. My only real gripe with team building is that TMs are single use; it's kind of annoying in the early game when you're working with TMs like Mud Slap.
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>>59176980
Johto detractors don't play the games. They always say some shit like "um, all the Johto Pokémon are only available in the postgame" because that's what their favorite YouTuber said, when in HGSS 93/100 gen 2 Pokemon are available in the main story.
>w-well that's only in HGSS
They claim HGSS didn't fix any of GSC's so-called glaring flaws, and then proceed to cite things that HGSS adjusted as reasons that Johto is le bad actually.
Every single Johto detractor is either a shill or a larper, and the only step in-between is being both.
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>>59176786
If you only like gen 1 you're not a real Pokemon fan, and if you don't like gen 1 you're not a real Pokemon fan either.
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How did he know
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