Thread 937097655 - /b/ [Archived: 277 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/14/2025, 8:39:41 PM No.937097655
pokemon
pokemon
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How does Pokemon pull it off despite the shitty games and anime?
Replies: >>937098252 >>937098379 >>937099425
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 8:43:51 PM No.937097824
pika
pika
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autists and manchildren
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 8:56:05 PM No.937098252
>>937097655 (OP)
Nintendo fandom astroturfing is very in depth. You can get you favourite cute pretend animal substitute and think you're party of a community.
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 8:59:24 PM No.937098379
399
399
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>>937097655 (OP)
Because there are literally over 1000 of the fucking things and they can and will make merchandise for every single one of them.

It's literally a franchise about collecting, it's ridiculously marketable whether the games are shit or not.
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 9:26:42 PM No.937099425
>>937097655 (OP)
that initial marketing campaign in 1998/1999/2000 was undeniably the most extreme case of "right place, right time" in modern history, literally every child and teenager in America was hooked on the shit, people would get in actual fights over the cards, the Gameboy games had an odd and addictive appeal, the whole thing was really quite something