>>57957308
That wouldn't be hard, outside the internet safespaces no cunt picked the also-rans when Charizard existed. And given Meow's based on the second most popular pet worldwide, instead of a povvo pet for Japanese boys (you need to buy more shit to look after terrapins and salamanders after all), it stands to reason the internet would similarly be flooded with people who love Meow, within and without the autistic parts of the web.
There is this thing called "context" that you kids ignore. Doubly so when the context remains it was a thoroughly Japanese game brought westwards and subjected to the biases and opinions of westerners. That extended to few kids, if any in the major markets keeping reptiles as pets, thus not seeing any worth in a overgrown turtle or dinosaur (no cunt knew it was a frog until Sugimori interviews started getting translated separate from NoA's butchered translations) compared to essentially aeuropean-style dragon, which also happened to breathe fire. That they killed off evolving Bulba and Squirtle early in OS (before the west had even seen it mind) proves Japan didn't care for the also-rans past a certain point either.