Pokémon fans don’t hate Pokémon

Whenever there is criticism of the mainline Pokemon games people always say “no one hates Pokemon more than Pokemon fans” even though that’s plainly not even true.

Pokemon is a multimedia franchise which started off with the [now] mainline Pokemon RPGs, but they now exist alongside the manga, anime, trading card game and spinoff games like Pokken. I know when I was in primary school most were introduced to Pokemon via the anime or the card game, you can be a fan of any of these things (and also love Pokemon just for the Pokemon themselves) then also acknowledge that the mainline Pokemon games look ugly and are lazily developed by Game Freak, this doesn’t mean you hate Pokemon.