Now I know what Null feels like whenever he steps into the Vtuber thread.
How hard is it to just admit "Wow, that's fucked up. That shouldn't be in a children's IP, neither on the forefront or in the backbone."
Why do fandoms always act like this? This is an IP ruining leak. It has tainted the brand. Pokemon is for perverts. Pokeperverts.
This isn't some shitty remake of a classic movie with blackwashed characters made by cynical Blackrock funded assholes that can just be ignored and we all go back to enjoying the original, this isn't an author who had a weird or troubled sex life but kept it separate from his work, it's baked into the text of the canon and is a guiding principle part of it. It's not just some employees shitty slashfiction made on their own time either, it's overflowed into the actual games, "Some people marry their Pokemon." Half the people defending it are claiming that Pokemon has always been this way in deep lore and it's only "normies" and "tourists" discovering it for the first time that are pearl clutching over it. Kinda defeats the argument that it's not authorial intent when the same people are also arguing it's deep lore.