Pokemon is definitely a big thing back when I was growing up, especially in elementary school. I remember back in the days when even the principal and the teachers would be upset that kids would be playing pokemon cards in school, talking about pokemon, and of course, being that the US as a country was more religious back then, you even had religious people talk about how pokemon was the work of the devil. Ugh, it's sad how much ignorance is around back then and even more so nowadays. Needless to say, the principal of my elementary school distributed an PSA about how pokemon was evil and advised all parents to stay away from the fandom (as if making the forbidden fruit forbidden would stop kids from chasing it /s).
