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You realize though that 60% of the fandom got tired of the mascot right? Piplup hasn't even been outside of Sinnoh and think about the crap s/he gets. I mean people don't really like the mascot, the creators of Pokemon assume that the cutest pokemon they can find should be on the face of the product. The fandom is so picky that after a while they get tired of it. However you are SOMEWHAT right. Though they would never pick a Magikarp, if they picked another cutesty pokemon (Remember originally it was even going to be Clefairy), that would indeed be the face of Pokemon.
I don't buy that fandom at large hates Pikachu, either the anime or in-game. I'm fairly certain that that's just a (vocal) minority who grew out of the franchise. It's the one Pokemon with a constant marketing presence, and it's in every single core game's regional dex. And Pikachu has probably had more events than anybody else.