we're fucked.

Personally I think that battle sims like showdown would still be a thing in the pokemon world. Cuz like picture this: you are ten years old and the only Pokémon you have access to is the elderly family Sunflora. You love Sunny to death but also literally every media you consume involves Pokémon battles and champions and cool ass fights. Sunny is too old to fight and your neighbor’s Gothita is too young. One day on the playground your friend tells you about this cool website that lets you battle pokemon on the computer. Later that night you boot up the family computer and instantly realize that this website lets you play as GROUDON (!!!!). There’s no going back from there.

anyone else notice how pedo allegations and drama rarely include actual child voices and are just sort of a way for adults to fight and argue with other adults

anyone else notice how all the focus is on the One being outed as a monster and not on what could lead anyone, even You, to those actions? how its just a public hanging that changes nothing?

wow i sure love this child-preteen character with a distinct human personality. i hope no one online is depicting them as sexually desirable

we need to watch our patterns around youth just as harshly as with other bigotries and power inbalances. its so fucking easy to let people in our communities toe the line. because which adults online take 12 year olds seriously? just the term 12 year old is commonly used as an insult. it is our responsibility to keep each other in fucking line. because god knows they wont be able to.