Why People Hate Pokemon Now

Описание: What is the worst part of modern Pokemon?
the community.

Many people have seemingly decided that Pokémon games among many games have been on a decline since the mid 2010s while others claim it's been a garbage heap since the the turn of the millennium. Obviously this is completely subjective but is it obvious? & What is subjectivity.



Subjectivity often thought of as a personal & entirely internal concept. You have your opinions & everyone else has THEIR own unique opinions. This would only be the case for someone living in complete isolation. Or at least this is the concept of subjectivity in most social sciencists believe in. Your subjective opinion will & SHOULD warp & change with new information.



This is where Social Proof comes in, also known as informational social influence or herd behaviour. basically if someone is seen as a person of authority or social importance, in the case of the Pokémon community, this could be someone with a paid blue check mark on Twitter or high follower count on YouTube. It could even be someone more familiar like a best friend or family member. Who in turn may have either played the game & developed feeling & opinions for themselves or have "herd" from futher up their own personal social influence chain



But you could say "I know the games are getting worse, they were excellent back in my childhood", well this is the perfect time to bring up Rosy Retrospection, our brains are limited, every memory that you can recall are physically connected through squishy things called neurons. If you started playing Pokémon around the age of 5 or 6 then congratulations, those associated memories are probably your first, thanks to Childhood Amnesia, the idea that you can't really remember anything from your infancy, one possible explanation could be that your brain just hadn't physically grown all the bits it needed yet to link everything together.



On the topic of Rosy Retrospection, there might be some evidence through research of a Blue Retrospection, I just like the idea of Red & Blue retrospection being paired. if you were in a bad mood or headspace when you played a game in the last couple of years, or even if you just didn't really gel with it. Your brain is possibly also exaggerating the mild negative feelings into hatred or disgust. This could possibly line up with the negative press & controversies leading into the launch of Generation 7's Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee & Generation 8's Sword & Shield, for things like ugly tree & the National Dex being cut.



The reminince bump is a upwards spike on a graph showing where people typically find it easiest to recall memories. The spike is between ages 10 to 30 & is usually seen in people above the ages of 40, but is also present in ages below, but harder to spot because of recency bias. Woman tend to favour their 20s & men tend to favour their 30s more. May not be a valid argument for this topic, but Pokémon fans who grew up with Gen 1 may be pushing past 40 & may reminisce on earlier games in the series as being good because they were novel and had very little to compare them to.

The reminince bump combined with Rosy Retrospection is likely to only bring forward good memories.
Playing video games as a child is unlikely to be an unhappy memory unless it was used as a means of escape (family issues)


Anyway, that's all I really have to say on the matter, most of this is just me rambling but if you have any thoughts or critics please leave them believe. Thank you.