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"The Pokédex is written by 10 year olds" is a joke theory.
It's a digital encyclopedia that records information about the various Pokémon that inhabit the world. Because you can't really judge a character's strength from RPG mechanics and most species of Pokémon have zero cutscene feats the Pokédex is often our only source of information about Pokémon without looking at other continuities.

But unfortunately the game developers are not physicists, and that sometimes leads to Pokédex entries making extraordinary claims. It became a common joke among the Pokémon fandom that the Pokédex doesn't make sense because the 10 year old protagonists are just making all of the information up. Somehow this idea got spread around and eventually twisted to the point that a lot of people on seem to actually think that the Pokédex isn't meant to be accurate ooc.

I could bring up the many statements that the Pokédex records data automatically or start a semantic debate by pointing out that the game protagonists are not 10 years old, but it actually doesn't matter who writes the Pokédex entries or what their method is (the dea scans them on the spot) Whether the Pokédex is written by 3 year olds doesn't change that the Pokédex is absolutely intended to be an accurate source of information about Pokémon. Pokémon professors in every game praise the player for gathering data, no one in any season/game implies that the Pokédex might not be accurate, short of maybe a handful of times in the anime since it’s a nice stock plot to have a mystery. Sun/Moon a scientist reads directly from the Pokédex when talking to you about Corsola being overhunted by Toxapex.


Point being is that the Pokédex entries not being ‘true’ is basically on par with "Scooby snacks are weed" or "Peach is secretly in love with Bowser" in falseness.

You should be ashamed to tarnishing armstrong’s meme for such an ass backwards position as that.