- Banned
- #1
Pokémon...
The Supercharged spaced out, Animal-like fictional beings with capabilities found nowhere in reality, and with only one animal species that ever existed on planet earth having ONE capability that's anything at all like it..
the Electric eel...
Few fads have had as much marketing impact as the fairly short lived Pokémon originating in Japan.
These are some facts about Pokémon.
To generate a fad like Pokémon, you need a really vivid imagination.. an artistic culture capable of thinking of producing Anime cartoons.
It most likely pays to come from a martial arts culture, for its thought process that goes into Pokémon, judging by observation.
But it cannot survive here, and didn't survive here either.
For one thing, it had only a marketing impact on Early to Mid Generation Y, it failed to connect with late Generation Y, or our kids, or Generation X's younger children.
Our culture doesn't support such a style of Animation.
The violence pattern doesn't resonate with us.
And its also a pretty corny, far fetched cartoon and makes for a pretty useless marketing pyramid scheme that nobody BUT the artist could conceivably benefit anything whatsoever from... period.
Its a total waste of money.
And if it wasn't such a marketing success in its hayday... its age appropriacy is around 6 months to 5 years old.
And its really unfortunate for the development of Generation Y's social skills and reputation as adults, that pokemon was such a marketing behemoth.
So that's how and why it died off.
The Supercharged spaced out, Animal-like fictional beings with capabilities found nowhere in reality, and with only one animal species that ever existed on planet earth having ONE capability that's anything at all like it..
the Electric eel...
Few fads have had as much marketing impact as the fairly short lived Pokémon originating in Japan.
These are some facts about Pokémon.
To generate a fad like Pokémon, you need a really vivid imagination.. an artistic culture capable of thinking of producing Anime cartoons.
It most likely pays to come from a martial arts culture, for its thought process that goes into Pokémon, judging by observation.
But it cannot survive here, and didn't survive here either.
For one thing, it had only a marketing impact on Early to Mid Generation Y, it failed to connect with late Generation Y, or our kids, or Generation X's younger children.
Our culture doesn't support such a style of Animation.
The violence pattern doesn't resonate with us.
And its also a pretty corny, far fetched cartoon and makes for a pretty useless marketing pyramid scheme that nobody BUT the artist could conceivably benefit anything whatsoever from... period.
Its a total waste of money.
And if it wasn't such a marketing success in its hayday... its age appropriacy is around 6 months to 5 years old.
And its really unfortunate for the development of Generation Y's social skills and reputation as adults, that pokemon was such a marketing behemoth.
So that's how and why it died off.
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