The Question of the Day is a way to facilitate community discussion to help members ponder the unanswered questions of the world that are somehow relating to the hobby. Questions are many times open ended and up to interpretation. Feel free to post your thoughts in as much or as little detail as you’d like.
Helpful Considerations may or may not help some people focus their answer, these are blurred to not bother those who have their own ideas.
Oh man, that’s a tough one to answer. We’re all probably a little biased here, considering this is a forum filled with users dropping significant amounts of money on the trading cards, among other things. I’d reckon the majority of users here could name every Pokemon (maybe not from memory, but at least with an accompanying photo), have complete game living dexes, know the matchup chart like the back of our hands, multiple thousands of cards, etc. etc… So we’re on the extreme end of nerdiness.
I’d say that your typical enthusiast that enjoy the games when they release, rips packs here and there, maybe plays POGO, and has a few plushies or keychains can be considered a pretty big Pokemon fan, even if they have blank spaces in their general franchise knowledge.
On the other hand, I don’t really consider Genwunners to be sincere fans, because most of them are just dudes that repost a bunch of “only 90’s kids remember…” content on Facebook because they played Red Version on a long car ride one time. I’ve held this opinion ever since the Black and White pre-release era. I remember how much those games got unfairly lambasted on social media.
My favorite way is that they just enjoy when the topic is brought up in any scenario. Whether its about the anime, tcg, merch, VA’s, illustrators, etc. Its just generally fun to talk about all things Pokemon.
I think knowing about Pokemon controversies is a huge indicator that someone is really into Pokemon. It takes a special type of fan to want to examine their favorite hobby with a more critical and questioning eye. Most casual fans would not care at all.
Some major ones that come to mind are depictions of Jynx and Probopass, Porygon causing epileptic seizures in children, Koga’s Ninja Trick and Misty’s Tears, the Uri Geller legal case, etc.
When you howl into the wind “pok eh mon!” And someone screams back “gotta catch em alllllllll” and then sings the rest of the opening song with you in tandem
