• FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    This isn’t even supposed to be the “Pokemon World”, it’s an animated series about kids playing the trading card game

    So, this guy isn’t just racist, he’s a fake Pokemon fan!

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      Yeah. It’s pretty consistent that almost all of the bigots who spout this nonsense don’t care about the piece of media they’re complaining about. Some don’t even know anything about the games/shows/movies they complain about and then complain about wokism when they see a screenshot.

      I mean it makes sense why that is. It never was about the love or appreciation about a piece of fiction. If you’re looking at Pokemon as a way to escape black and brown people, you never really cared about Pokemon.

      I just hate that these shitheads invade fan communities and drown out valid criticism with their woke agenda.

      • alunyanneгs 🏳️‍⚧️♀️@lemmygrad.ml
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        lol and they claim they’ve always been the true fans and claim us “wokies” are the newbie tourists raining on their silly little parade

        they 100% would’ve called me a fake/new guilty gear fan if they found out about my stance on bridget (before she came out as a girl i already viewed her as a woman - this was when i was just a kid mind you) despite guilty gear being my childhood lmfao

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          I mean that’s kinda how colonialism does. Come in, stake a claim on a space, decide their canon is the only canon and then accuse you of being an invader when you were there all along.

          It’s so infuriating. The meltdown about Bridget was so fucking dumb too. It wasn’t even a leap in logic. It was all in the text if you paid attention.

          But if you did that, then you would have to acknowledge the idea of Bridget’s personhood.

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            lol tell me about it. i saw people claiming that she was “GrOoMeD” to be trans by her opponents in the bad ending and that she continued to maintain her previous gender identity in the “good ending”. also the fact someone made an hour/1h30m long video essay whining about bridget’s current gender identity was just the cherry on top.

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      Link to the first episode. Pretty cute!

      It’s really frustrating they don’t have closed captions available, though. I find it so strange that many videos put out by big corporations have the auto CC disabled but don’t provide their own, making them consistently less accessible than videos put out by individuals (many of whom also go through the trouble of providing high-quality manual captions)…it’s just a big middle finger to HoH/Deaf people. I can understand not wanting to lean on auto subs if they say something weird that will reflect negatively on your brand or w/e, but professional closed captioning would be a rounding error for any of these professional productions. We really ought to expand the regulations to capture this kind of streaming-only content.