pikachu is real and he tried to suck my dick

This is FASCINATING and describes something I couldn’t put my finger on!!

A major difference things like this don’t take into account is animation.

When the original pokemon were designed, they were just static six-bit colorless sprites. They had no clue what was to come in the next 20 years.

Over the next twenty years, pokemon has become insanely popular. Disney level popular. Each game has increased the animation until each one now has a fully animated CG model, rendered in far more detail than the first gen Gameboy sprites could ever dream of. It’s had thousands of cartoon episodes and around two dozen movies.

The newer designs are-

1. Much easier to animate, and more importantly,
2. Significantly easier for children to draw.

And that’s ultimately what this franchise boils down to: it has to be accessible to children.

I think that’s a really interesting point because as a child I always thought it’s really really hard to draw Pokemon! So I honestly never did.

based on the notes of this post, i’ve decided to give an update!

2017 tumblr dashboard, Tumblr Veteran Edition:

• people who genuinely think that people on tumblr were nicer in 2012 because you could say the n word without getting run off the site

• every few months you hear of a new scam. you wonder where people get the money to get scammed in the first place

• at least 10 posts on your dash of people with Gofundmes begging to not die on the streets because the economy is so fucked up

• thinking it can’t get worse, politically, but news breaks that donald trump publicly admits to using sliced onions as deodorant. nobody blinks an eye. 

• an article blatantly from the onion or clickhole that people take at face value

• seeing a meme that’s genuinely funny and sighing in pain because you know you’ll grow to hate it in two days time

• somehow still being on this site after almost half a decade, hardened. you want to quit so fucking badly. and yet you continue to scroll. your body cries out for you to stop but you do not. you scroll and there is no end.