Are you a closeted poke-fan?

Started by ausnick April 20th, 2011 4:38 PM
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I remember way back when I was 12-13 years old.. I loved pokemon! I was addicted, bought poke-merchandise, recorded the anime series and, proudly caught "all 150 pokemon" on my Pokemon Blue. :)

But I was bullied and teased relentlessly by my classmates as pokemon was "uncool" and was nothing more than a "childs game" and I was a fool for playing it.

Now, about 10 years later..I'm 23 and I've recently rediscovered pokemon and realise I still love playing! but I dare not tell others for fear of ridicule! :P

how about you guys? are you a closeted poke-fan or do you let the world know? lol
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Posted May 15th, 2011
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12.6 Years
There's nothing wrong with liking something. People shouldn't tease you because of something you like.

Almost everyone that knows me knows that I love Pokémon. It's kind of hard to hide when they walk into my room and see several plushies, a giant poster on my wall, and my trading card collection.

I'm 20, and yes, almost everyone knows that I love Pokémon.



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Im in HS, and all my friends know I play Pokemon..Most of them play too! The rest really dont care..Unless we go all into PokeNerd- talk XD. But yeah, come out of the closet man! If anyone teases you, say "at least I dont listen to JB.." and when they say they dont say "mhmmm...sure *wink*" :P
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No I don't think I could make it anymore obvious that I like Pokemon. My laptop has Pokemon desktops and I play the games in class. Everyone knows pretty much and I couldn't care less if anyone doesn't approve.

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It's a hobby for me, and most of my friends know about it. I don't like to talk about it in public where the conversation can be overheard, though. I'm 20 years old; it's sort of embarrassing when I'm in a quiet room on campus with a bunch of people and a friend comes up and says "hey, can you help me build a new Pokémon team??" rather loudly. That happened earlier today, actually. Ah well. I'm not ashamed.

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Haha I never really hidden my love of pokemon. Maybe a little bit when I moved schools but one year after coming to a new school I've pretty open about it. In fact A LOT of my school knows I love pokemon and they think it's pretty cool. In fact I even used Pokemon as a base for my marijuana project for health XD I know I know, marijuana and pokemon don't mix and match but my health teacher loved it (It even got me full marks!) I'm not ashamed of my love of pokemon and I doubt I ever will be


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I don't outright tell people that I play Pokemon, but if it comes up in conversation, I have no problem telling people that I play it. It's an awesome game, and I have absolutely nothing to hide.

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I don't outright tell people that I play Pokemon, but if it comes up in conversation, I have no problem telling people that I play it. It's an awesome game, and I have absolutely nothing to hide.
This, pretty much. I never start conversations with new people with "HI I'M JONATHAN AND LIKE POKEMON DO YOU LIKE POKEMON TOO?" but if it comes up organically in conversation, I have no problem admitting it. Most people get all nostalgic from when they used to play the games; at the worst, it's a weird look and then everyone's on with their lives again.
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I'm pretty deceived about my classmates... I'm studying in computer engineering, you would expect most people to be gamers and a few to be Pokemon players... But no, I've not met a single one so far :(. Most show a bit of nostalgia, but laugh a bit at the same time. It's nothing mean so I don't care, but it's too bad I couldn't find anyone to trade and pvp with xD!!!

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I remember way back when I was 12-13 years old.. I loved pokemon! I was addicted, bought poke-merchandise, recorded the anime series and, proudly caught "all 150 pokemon" on my Pokemon Blue. :)

But I was bullied and teased relentlessly by my classmates as pokemon was "uncool" and was nothing more than a "childs game" and I was a fool for playing it.

Now, about 10 years later..I'm 23 and I've recently rediscovered pokemon and realise I still love playing! but I dare not tell others for fear of ridicule! :P

how about you guys? are you a closeted poke-fan or do you let the world know? lol
I'm the same. 22 now and I have the games, watch the Anime on CiTV and have the cards etc.

During school it was fine, till I got into year 7 and I stopped playing really. Decided to get HG when it came out and not looked back :)

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All my friends and people I talk to know I like to play the pokemon games, and they really don't judge me for it. Actually, some of my friends play also.

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Well, as well as some other people here, people at my school who strive to be cool have declared that Pokémon is uncool, but I have no problem talking about it to my friends, because I know them well enough to know that they'll be my friends no matter what I like, so I can talk about Pokémon and say I like Pokémon. If someone's talking about Pokémon, I'll talk about it also, but if not, I keep it to myself.

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I guess I'm lucky since basically 90% of my rl friends like to play pokemon. the other 10% are mostly neutral or have been exposed to other stuff like dragonball-z so they don't care about pokemon anyways.


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The way I see it now (and I'm 20), I don't go parading around saying that I like pokemon but if anyone were to say anything I wouldn't deny it either. When I was younger (about 13-15) I was bit nervous/embarrassed about it....not to the point that I'd stop but to the point where I'd be eager for nobody to know. I don't really care now, if somebody wants to act weird about it that really isn't my fault.

There's a guy in my class at college, I noticed he was looking at a pokemon website one day...not sure what to make of it.

You know, pokemon fans probably need to develop more of a backbone. If we all started dissing Call of Duty I'd bet most of it's fans would all bite back and not shy away all embarrassed. If you act embarrassed you're only feeding the idea that pokemon is for babies.

Ausnick, if they want to ridicule you. Let them....what's the worst that could happen? A few weird looks maybe? Some sjirachiing? Is that so painful? Is that not something you can get over? At least you'll be safe in the knowledge that you're not ashamed to like what you like. That's more important than being "cool".
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I'm eighteen, in college, and an open Pokemon fans. I check my Pokewalker in between classes, I'll even break out my DS every once in a while, and I talk to my friends about Pokemon very frequently. I have something of a reputation among my friends as being the girl who plays Pokemon all the time. I don't try to hide my love for Pokemon, and I'm certainly not ashamed of it either. :D