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>>9424297
And like others have said, while that might've been the case for kids that grew up on gen 2 and were still in middle school at the time, those that started with gen 1 were in college when gen 5 was released. That was the actual point when it became okay to like Pokemon again, when the earliest fans first got old enough to stop being immature teen edgelords.

I was in college when Platinum got released, nobody made fun of anyone for being into Pokemon then. And pic related is from 2010, late gen 4 in America (American release date of BW was March 2011).