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It's just a fad

Just wait, in a thousand years archaeologists will be talking about our pantheon of monsters that were greatly revered by all.

When does a fad stop being a fad and start being a canon or an icon or whatever? Is Shakespeare a fad? As a 8 years old I knew all Pokémons by name their powers and I have spent literally all my pocket money on Pokémon, and now almost 30 years later people still seem to dig it. Also I don’t think it ever really went away in the meanwhile too. But yeah it could also just be millennial nostalgia and the cyclical nature of cultural products which over and over resurfaces and recycles and remixes the stuff from the past

I'm pretty sure that was sarcasm.

no it's irony

It's a joke, people have been calling Pokemon a fad since 1998. Pokemania in the early 2000s was bigger than the Pokemon Go moment in 2016. But Pokemon endures.

Well with that attitude, you'll never catch 'em all!

There's Godwins law about comparing everything to nazis. Will there be someperson's law of completely misunderstanding what a word means?

It was sarcasm. Pokemon has been called a fad since it first gained popularity in 1998.

Though to be fair the Pokemania era of the early 2000s was a blip, the same way Pokemon Go had a short-lived popularity surge in 2016.

Pokemon is enduring.

Unfortunately, Goodwins law has lead to many people fearing to point out obvious fascism.

Reversal of the Law: Mike Godwin himself has stated that his rule does not discredit efforts to make valid comparisons, particularly when democratic institutions are under threat.

You might be interested in Poe's Law [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

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