thereâs this term i coined in my friendgroup i call âthe charizard effectâ and it can apply to anything and everything, but it was born from me explaining my feelings about the pokemon charizard. the term is basically about how overexposure to something be it by corporate shilling or fandom prominence drives me away from really enjoying something bc iâm exposed to it so much against my will i become tired of it. it came to me bc i was ranting about how tpci does not, and cannot stop reinventing charizard, and how it is popular and obtusely included in almost every region, merch, etc in every way possible and itâs highly commodified.
i dont dislike the pokemon charizard, in fact i really like its X form, but i am exposed to so much charizard in my pokemon consumption that i cant be bothered to care for it in any more than in passing. this applies to a bunch of other stuff iâd otherwise be ok with, but i always just call this aversion phenomena âthe charizard effectâ
making this term has done numbers for me being able to concisely express how i feel abt something. like. its not charizardâs fault i feel this way, im sure iâd feel normal abt it if it was stripped of all this over commodification, but i cannot. hence the name
