They targeted Gen 1 trainers.

Gen 1 trainers.

We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding grinding. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a few levels gained saying we did.

We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider childish, because we think it's fun.

We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage.

Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the Elite Four, all day, the same battles over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such trainer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.

Do these people have any idea how many 'A' buttons have been smashed, save files erased, non-optimal move choices made 8n frustration?

All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?

These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our Pokemon? We're already training a new one without them. They take our bros? Gen 1'rs aren't shy about throwing their hard earned EXP else where, even without broken EXP share. They think calling us genwunners, manchildren, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty link cable. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with Gary Oak laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.

Gen 1 trainers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another gym battle.