[ SECRET POST #3530 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3530 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Peridot, Jasper,and Lapis Lazuli from Steven Universe]


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[Mr Max the Cockatoo (https://www.youtube.com/user/angeleyedboidan)]


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[Criminal Minds, Spencer Reid, Diana Reid]


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Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, get over yourself. Being bullied doesn't give you any bigger claim to Pokemon than any other fan, no matter how new. And how do you know they weren't original fans? How do you know they weren't bullied when they were younger? Just because they aren't wearing oversized anime T-shirts and black rim glasses?

[(Anonymous)]

Telling a bully victim to 'get over yourself'.
What a charming ray of sunlight you are.

[(Anonymous)]

time to let go of some bitterness, OP.

[grausam]

Part of my nostalgia for pokemon is due to the hype uniting all us primary school children with one common interest. The peer bullying kinda took a break/returned at a later date for me.

Sorry that you got bullied for your interest instead, OP. That's bitter. Pokemon Go is not all that deep and it'll be a much better game in one year or two, though. If you still want to get into it then. That's the idea I'm consoling myself with, at the very least :P

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty much this. As someone with nerdy interests, I'm still amazed by just how mainstream Pokemon was to my age group. It's great when you see a lot of people geeking out over something.

I guess you can same I'm the opposite of OP, in that I find it amazing that Pokemon Go has taken that fact to another level. My 45 year old co worker had the highest level in the office and he knew nothing of the games or show. It's just fucking fun.

[(Anonymous)]

"Popular-looking?" What on Earth does that even mean if you're not still in high school? What does a "popular-looking" person look like? Adults don't form cliques around their clothing styles.

[sarillia]

I have no idea what it means but apparently I'm "popular-looking". I have friends who act like I must have been popular in school, unlike them, and it never seems to sink in no matter how many times I tell them they're wrong.

[grausam]

idk, I still tense up around well-dressed people of a certain type, even if I pull off that look myself sometimes. why is it hard to believe that OP could have a gut-reaction to that?

[(Anonymous)]

I was wondering that myself. Like, what is it? How do I know if I am popular looking? Is it how you dress or how you wear your hair or make up or what?

[(Anonymous)]

You honestly sound like you need some therapy.

Not every single well-groomed person out there is one of the kids who bullied you in high school, and being irrationally furious at everyone who has a slightly-geeky interest while not looking like a stereotypical geek is seriously unhealthy.

[dethtoll]

"popular-looking" are you for fucking real?????

god, just grow up or get funny

[(Anonymous)]

As with most people on this, you took one part of OP's secret and responded and didn't look at the rest. I agree, OP could have worded that bit differently.
So the bits about them being bullied for something that is now popular had no effect on you? (which to me was the main gist of the secret).
Oh that's right, a bully victim should just 'grow up or get funny'.
What a charming person you are!

[(Anonymous)]

I kind of get where you're coming from, except for me it was Harry Potter. Of course, that got popular about a year or so after I first started reading the series, so it's not the 17 or so years between the first Pokemon installment and Pokemon Go.

I got pretty annoyed when people called me a liar when I told them I'd already read it, because the previous school year they had been bullying me for reading it, especially the ones who went on and on how great it was. I really wanted to scream "I KNOOOOOOW!" at them, and smack them about the head.

At least you seem to recognise that it's pointless to act on your frustration over it, even if it is irritating. I hope the bullying didn't end up takinb away all your enjoyment of the franchise, at least.

[(Anonymous)]

So it would appear that the bullies are embracing the very thing they used to bully you over. If that's the case, then I can see where the resentment comes from.

But "every popular looking player" seems a bit extreme. First off, popular looking does not necessarily mean popular, and being popular does not mean automatic bully. And while I'm sure a small percentage of them are douchey, you can't hold other people accountable for the awful things that some assholes did to you back in school.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I don't know if I look popular (cause I don't know what that means) but I like to think I dress pretty nice, but I was unpopular and bullied in high school. You can't assume people's past on how they dress now?

[(Anonymous)]

Pokemon always used to be popular and I've always seen people playing it since I was in middle school all through college. I'm sorry you ran into around a bad crowd with it :( It really sucks when people try to tear down others for having fun.

I did know at least one person who would always mock me for being childish because I liked pokemon and I was wearing a cute pokemon shirt at the time, but then I just brought up the childish fanish stuff they obsess over and they immediately shut the fuck up. That's basically how I respond to people trying to tear down stuff I enjoy for fun. Everyone should be allowed to enjoy whatever makes them happy.

[(Anonymous)]

Ok wow, I'm not OP but I can see where they're coming from and I know it's been taken out of proportion by a lot of people in this thread.

As someone who was a total Pokemon kid in the 90's, I know what you mean. I was a fan when Pokemon hit the States, and while the fad of it was popular, I had a lot of friends who were into it too. During the RBY era and part of the GSC era, I wasn't ostracized for my love of the series. Kids looked to me for help with the game.

Once Ruby and Sapphire came out, Pokemon was suddenly total shit according to the general kid population. As I stood by the series, the "friends" I had now bullied me. I didn't wear the series on my sleeve (wearing merch, constantly talking about it, etc.), kids would just harass me without provocation, sometimes even physically hurting me. The verbal harassment continued through DP and part of BW, until finally while I was in college, no one gave a shit anymore and I could enjoy XY in peace. The only people I could talk to about the series were online, either because local fellow fans kept to themselves as well or there just weren't any around.

Now that Pokemon Go's come out, I have seen the exact same people who gave me shit as a child going out and playing the game, acting like they've been a huge fan this whole time. Some have even tried to offer advice to me (I tell them "I'm good" while massively rolling my eyes on the inside). From overhearing them, the only "real" Pokemon are the RBY generation, and everything they've made afterwards are "stupid and gay." Where I live, the fad has already died. You're lucky to see one person playing on any given day. And honestly, I'm glad. Call me an awful person, whatever, but I think it's childish for people to treat others like shit because they're a fan of something the bullies don't like. There are a ton of series I absolutely hate, but I'm not going to treat someone horribly because they're a fan. It only matters if they're a kind person.

OP, I understand what you're saying, and I'm sorry. Life can be very ironic, but I hope that someday you'll be able to enjoy things in peace. The Pokemon Go fad will die, and then only the real fans of the series will play the game. Just be patient.

[crossy_woad]

I'm sorry you have to deal with that, OP. I hope you can still get some enjoyment from Pokemon (even if not the latest game). (I'd love to play it someday but no way am I investing in a phone that expensive right now~!!)

[diet_poison]

Seriously??

[(Anonymous)]

Have you considered that the bullying might have been more about where you were and what kind of assholes you went to school with than pokemon?

It's just that you're talking about feeling violent towards "popular looking" (???) people over a media franchise.

Maybe chill.

[a_potato]

Anon I feel you and I empathize. But there's a point where you gotta let things go, lest you start nursing feelings that make you a bully in your own right.

[(Anonymous)]

lol what the hell has happened to this community? I just got here after maybe a good couple of years and... holy lol

it's like the confessions part of F!S has gotten entirely lost in the discussions aspect of it. You all just want to argue and complain and for the sake of it.

Actually, I used to really love knowing that F!S was still running, but now I don't really care if it closed down, which I'm sure will happen any day now anyways.

Cheers

[(Anonymous)]

oh ffs, grow up

people made fun of me for playing Pokemon when I was in middle school, but that was years ago. people change, times change, if you're still resenting kids who bullied you for playing Pokemon you're needlessly hanging onto it.

[(Anonymous)]

Don't worry. People still get PLENTY of shit for playing Pokemon Go. No matter what they look like.