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He's also been going around and deleting Pokemon stuff on other pages.
It Will Never Catch On: Real Life
: He added and then deleted the following: When Franchise/Pokemon first became popular in the '90s, most dismissed it as a mere kid fad which would die quick. However, it not only didn't die, but it transcended it's kid fad status to become one of the most popular franchises of all time among all ages.
There was no reason for either edit.
Heartwarming: Pokemon X & Y
: More of a meta-example than anything, but as anyone who went to the midnight releases can attest; for a series that, after the early "Pokemania" phase, largely fell out of the public eye and became known for having a polarized fandom, it's both awesome and heartwarming to see so many people show up for a game that was a part of their (and many other people's) childhoods.
Edit Reason: It never died
YMMV: Pokemon
: Dork Age: While not as extreme as other franchises that suffered this (many fans have enjoyed the entire series), popularity hit a decline during Gen III with the end of "Pokémania" and the backlash towards Hoenn's isolation — both geographically and in Pokémon available — from the first two Gens, and Gen IV received flak for the large amount of Legendaries, and previous-gen evolutions as well as the technical flaws experienced with Game Freak's first games on the DS. Even the aforementioned large population of fans who have always liked the games recognize that Pokémon's popularity has only resurged with Platinum, the remakes of the beloved Gen II games, and the innovation of Gens V and VI.
Edit Reason: I don't think it did
Americans Hate Tingle: Anime & Manga
: The anime in general has become this on many countries outside of Japan, in inverse proportion to the games (which are still massively popular). In Japan, the anime is still well-regarded, with tons of merchandise and regular films, and is enjoyed regularly by children and their parents. Elsewhere, the anime is viewed as a Franchise Zombie and is constantly accused of slavishly adhering to the Animation Age Ghetto. Despite this, it still maintains high ratings and has a considerable nostalgic fanbase in the West. With the XY series, however, Japan has finally started to adopt the other view, with ratings dropping from a rating average of 5.0 to 3.0 (no longer being in the Top 10 anime ratings) before the main arc was even finished, and the movies turning in record-low box office receipts. That and increasing disinterest and lack of activity in Japanese websites indicate that the anime is now seen as a Franchise Zombie there too, with anime fans in Japan preferring Yo-kai Watch, which has taken it's spot as TV Tokyo's top anime. Ironically, the XY anime has actually won back some fans in the west in comparison....or at least it did, until the Kalos League happened. We don't speak about that much.
Edit Reason: It doesn't
YMMV: Yokai Watch
: Much like the infamous Pokemon VS Digimon rivalry, comparing the series to Pokemon is generally not a good idea (whether you're claiming that Pokemon's time is up and touting Yo-kai Watch as its replacement or you're attacking Yo-kai Watch as a ripoff of Pokemon). Much like that rivalry, the two series are similar in that they're both Shonen Mons series and that there's a Gotta Catch 'Em All element to them. Both series also feature characters based on Yōkai. A major proponent of the rivalry is that some fans dislike changes in Pokémon Sun and Moon and its associated anime series that apparently rip off Yo-Kai Watch, allegedly to appeal more to the kid demographic in Japan (which has largely lost interest in Pokémon and latched onto YKW instead). (Bolded is what he deleted.)
Edit Reason: They haven't
Dork Age: Anime & Manga
: Kalos is considered a Dork Age for Japanese fans. The main factors are most likely Serena's character being built almost entirely around her crush on Ash, and the rise of Yo-kai Watch, which is seen as the death of Pokémon (though this could be reversed with the advent of Pokémon GO). Oddly, while Western fans considered Kalos an improvement, this changed when Ash lost the Kalos League to Alain, when everything hyped the episode up so that he would actually win, thus this season is now considered a Dork Age amongst Western fans too (those that kept watching, however, felt that the Team Flare arc which followed at least partially made up for it).
Edit Reason: It isn't
Conclusion: What Art Thee seems to believe that Pokemon NEVER died. EVER.
Edited by MegaMarioManThe series had a dropoff in popularity but it never died, as it has always sold millions of copies. The Dork Age deletion for the games at least looks legit.
Edited by KarxridaI suppose I could've been more specific.
He seems to believe that Pokemon has never been below a 5 on the Fandom Life Cycle.
And even if everything he deleted is wrong and he's in the right, he's still unilaterally deleting YMMV trope entries.
Unilateral deletion needs a reason. Contest trope misuse, contest whether what happened actually happened that way, and for a very few tropes, point out citations are needed. No deleting because the person disagrees.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry PratchettReasoning why for each:
I deleted the It Will Never Catch On entry because I found it was already on the page, and was a duplicate.
For Heartwarming, Pokemon never really faded out of the public eye. It's fandom is also not really that notorious, I definitely wouldn't mention it in the same breath as Sonic or MLP: FIM.
All the examples about X&Y in Japan are wrong, there is no evidence that people have given up on it. Ratings may have gone down, but all shows have, back in 2012 top shows in Japan got 15s but now they get 9s and 10s, and top 10 shows used to get 5s and 6s but now they get 3s and 2s. Yo-Kai Watch hasn't got much better ratings than Pokemon, if anything they're worse. And while movie grosses are lower than Black and White, they're not much lower then Pokemon 4Ever or Pokemon Heroes.
Dork Age entries were just shoehorning.
And it is true that Pokemon did indeed NEVER die. Games have never sold below 15 million.
I know Tv Tropes isn't Wikipedia, but these do feel like shoehorning.
Edited by WhatArtThee Just another day in the life of Jimmy Nutrin

A while ago, troper What Art Thee brought up the Pokemon-related trope image for Popularity Polynomial here at ATT
, suggesting it be removed. He didn't get much support for the idea but was directed to Image Pickin'. Whether he ever brought it up there I don't know— can't find any record of it— but he did take it upon himself to delete Pokemon's entry on that page.
Troper Jhonny brought the issue up in Discussion believing it should be reinstated. I agreed with him, no one else showed up to weigh in one way or the other, so Jhonny reinstated the example.
What Art Thee just came around again and re-deleted it, so Jhonny brought it up in Discussion again. I went ahead and reinstated it and left a note directing What Art Thee to join us in Discussion if he wants to argue for its deletion, but so far he has a history of bringing this up, ghosting when he can't gin up consensus for his proposed edits, and then making them anyway once the conversation has died down, so I thought it worth bringing up here.