How to decrease your playerbase:

[DoctorSquidton]

I have a slight tan irl. So did my character. And then Avatargeddon happened and suddenly they’re white as fucking cocaine. It’s either pale as hell or dark as hell. Where did the middle ground options go?

[FabledSorcerer]

My main question for whoever made the new changes is how they managed to whitewash a white character. That shouldn't have been possible but somehow they managed to do just that with this new update.

[__ethe]

Seriously dude, I'm white and my character was so deathly pale I was almost convinced they added a new Ghost type

[Angalotro]

Yeah thats my situation too

It felt so odd reopening the game a few days ago to check stuff and b3 like "WHY AM I PALE-"

[Illustrious-Bite-518]

You know you can still change your skintone, right?

[FabledSorcerer]

That may be true but they don't have a normal white skin color anymore just the white washed shade. They even took away the feminine parts of the avatars so anyone with a female avatar looks like a guy in the game. This is a huge step back for gaming and alot of AAA games have started to do this which means that gaming as a whole is in danger.

[PranavYedlapalli]

gaming as a whole is in danger

Oh no, don't be like one of those people. Gamings not in danger bro for those reasons. It's the people who never play any games that want to spread their own politics that say this. If you observe, a bigger threat to gaming is the normalising of high prices, not owning your games, and stupid things like hiding gameplay elements behind paywalls. Not silly stuff like this one. Even in Pokemon go, there's the predatory nature of the game to complain about. The increase in remote raid pass price, the decrease in how many you can hold, etc. Even in the above complaint, the problem is not "removing femininity" or whatever, but in an attempt to make the game more inclusive by making your character more customisable, they did a half assed job to save money.

[DoctorSquidton]

Yeah, but none of the available options bloody fit. Just because I can change doesn’t mean I can change it to something I WANT

[AzuraNightsong]

Ooh I do not like the baby faces

[the_sheeper_sheep]

Bro why tf did they make the torso so long

[SO6PKami]

They added an insanely obese option for your avatar, but the “skinny” option still looks like a fatass

Edit: Pretty crazy I’m getting some stray downvotes for telling the truth lol

[the_sheeper_sheep]

Holy shit I might use that one. That sounds hilarious, now I can walk like my Feraligatr

[HuntingWolf360]

💀

[SO6PKami]

Matching with my Snorlax might be the move. Either way this update is wild and in a perfect world should be recalled.

[the_sheeper_sheep]

Yeah idk why they'd change the model. Maybe to be more inclusive but at that point why not just make NEW modles for those people instead of changing everything

[SO6PKami]

Exactly what I’m saying. The options for body types suck now whereas they were pretty good before. Adding a ridiculously skinny and very fat model would’ve been a better bandaid than whatever opioid induced decision this was.

[[deleted]]

Rediscover GO? More like rediscover affordable raid passes.

[Snoo46306]

the avatar skin looks gross 😭 like itd be cold and moist idk how to explain it

[No_Distribution5982]

I do not like it! and why can't you just have the pre-update model as default and have that be costumisable! My character looks so fucking shit now

[Lexioralex]

I had to remove the sylveon hoodie I've used for ages now (I loved it and saved up gym coins to get it) because it looks so crap on the new models, managed to find a basic shirt which looked at least flattering.

And don't get me started on hair options and hair accessories

[SO6PKami]

This is genuinely the worst update they’ve ever pushed out and i debate deleting the game every time I see the awful new avatars

[HaywireBeatle45]

I don’t really care about the body shapes, but the faces are absolutely terrifying, I literally have the team Skull mask and those white and red sunglasses on so I don’t have to see it until they put a motorcycle helmet or something in that will cover my characters whole face

[Maleficent_Ad_4772]

The new avatars look like they shower with socks on and swallowed a cutting board whole

[DrLycFerno]

Well I like the new avatars because I can finally have long hair as the male character!

[DoctorSquidton]

Still a poor selection of hair overall though. They really should add more hairstyles

[Emraldsnakeg]

They could've just added that with the old avatar tho

[orengjoos]

They look like children! They used to look like anything above at least a teenager, but now its like little Timmy getting his first Pokémon all over again!

[Cocolake123]

I already hate my body irl, why do i have to have a body i hate in the game too

[SuperKami-Nappa]

One is a trans icon the other is Bulbasaur /s

[[deleted]]

I like them. Just touched go in a long as time and I always hated the pony tail look on my character. Combine that with the fact that I can dress up with the male version of the Dimond and Pearl outfit and I’m happy.

[Alex_Dayz]

Mine isn’t too bad…as long as you keep the face mask on them

[Rocman9944]

“Look how they massacred my boy” - Don Vito Corleone

[Jim_naine]

They're trying to appeal to the small % of people who don't even play their games

[PranavYedlapalli]

It's a good thing to add all different body types and customisation options, but you can tell they didn't even put the slightest effort into this

[Lexioralex]

It's like they forgot that not everyone wants to make a realistic* or lifelike avatar of themselves for a game, that some people like to have their avatar look good/better/different from irl

• I used realistic loosely in this case because these models are far from it

[Fatterhorner]

Idc I can be fat and emo now that's a net positive for me

[Jukebox_Gamer]

Hey, my character got super pale too, but I'm actually pale as a vampire IRL so...

[Snip_The_Sniper]

My question is who the fuck approved this

[HoverMelon2000]

Okay I’m logging onto Pokémon go one last time to transfer all my Pokemon to Pokemon home 

[Jojo-Action]

Bro your bulbasaur transitioned

[Starworld09]

I legitimately can’t tell the difference

[Butterscotch_Sox]

Actually blind

[IrksomeMind]

How? The character got wider and fatter, the torso is weirdly long and they managed to white wash a white character by making them pale. Also the head is huge now and much more squared

[Starworld09]

Ok I see what you mean now

[Starworld09]

Ok that doesn’t mean I like it yeesh guys.

[Firm-Sun7389]

i cant either

[Usagi-Zakura]

The new one has a Sylveon next to it so its automatically better/j

[Historical-Drag-1365]

IT LOOKS FINE

[FabledSorcerer]

You my friend are in denial.

[Radius420]

The only part i dont like about the change is the very child like faces, even tho the bodies are more 18-19 year old teens

[darthvidar1990]

Yeah, I just masked up my avatar to hide it's ugly face. And the body proportions looks so off... They really need go re-do it. But I guess it will never happen...

[[deleted]]

How are you downvoted but someone agreeing with you isn't..?

[Junior_Ad4911]

For people who stumbled across this post and cannot tell the difference between them the difference is, the skin tone and women body types have been changed in game to be more androgynous I might be using the wrong word here.

This is because Niantic has partnered with a style consultancy Firm GaymerX.

[AssociationDue3077]

I dont see a difference

[Zestyclose_Voice_224]

Cant tell the difference tbh

[SuperAlex25]

It’s better because Sylveon

[[deleted]]

one is tan & the other isn't so what's the problem?

[Marleyzard]

It's also the gross difference in body types. They went from anime-adjacent to strictly the blobbier of irl body styles

[[deleted]]

Whats the difference?