y'know how people are fucking done with marvel and marvel related things? like they've got marvel fatigue. I'm like that with pokemon and I wonder why pokemon fatigue isn't more widespread, pokemon has been around since the 90s, they keep pumping out games (at too fast a rate, jesus the bugs on the latest one really highlight the crunch), there'll always be new generations, tons of new pokemon and people keep buying them and drawing the new designs months ahead of the game's release, then months after too. I guess people making pokemon OCs are less likely to get "sick" of pokemon because they've transformed the big popular IP into something personal, but still... I'm struggling to like even the personal explorations of these designs, all I see are designs made to be made and sold as merch, I want to separate the designs from the massive media conglomerate that dominates popular culture but it's really hard to do that.
I joked before that my toxic trait is I don't like pokemon anymore and that feels true in some way... I feel like I'm the only person online who's just tired of all things pokemon, and I'm not ever going to go back to liking it because it's completely inescapable on a daily basis. Also I don't want to insult people who kin pokemon because that's their identity... what does it mean for your identity to be copyrighted by nintendo. I get existential thinking about these things, I don't want to shit on people's identities but saying "I'm sick of pokemon" is kind of doing that even if I don't mean it to be like that, just argh

