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I've been a Pokemon fan since I was probably 6 years old.
I've bought and owned games and guidebooks and mangas pretty much ever since then up to now. It's just always been with me and helped me through the worst times of my life. The same things that work on other people like insulting the verse or "proving" how weak its characters are don't really work on me and just make me more sure of my love for Pokemon.
People aren't trying to destroy your love of Pokémon on this site—and no, some random BPD ***** on Reddit doesn't count. The issue is that you take things too far and start wars where there don't need to be any.
You want to argue that every atom in Pokémon is Tier 0—fine—but then you accuse anyone who doesn't immediately agree of being part of some conspiracy started by some dumbass internet show ten years ago. The far more likely explanation is that they just A) don't like Pokémon and were going to downplay it anyway, B) the evidence you provided wasn't convincing, or C) your arguments were just bad.
On the flip side, if anyone dares to mention Digimon, or now Yu-Gi-Oh, you have a generational crash-out and immediately argue that Digimon/Yu-Gi-Oh fans are some sort of cabal of elite cyber-hacker bullies who will track down and hunt Pokémon fans, when the far more likely explanation is that they just watched Digimon first and liked it more.
Finally, and I know this is going to seem like throwing stones in a glass mountain, but it is actually just power-scaling. You acting like Pokémon losing at Death Battle, or your CRTs not getting passed, is somehow the greatest travesty the world has ever seen is an incredibly spoiled position to take—especially when, right now, children and the elderly in Ukraine are being conscripted to fight on the front lines, or in Iran, where the government possibly launched an actual genocide against people daring to want food.
If you want a more symbolic reason, in 2000, Pope John Paul II blessed the Pokemon franchise and its trainers. I was born 5 months later.
You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others?This quote really applies to you Sean