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It has come to light that the original logo in 2004 was a Koffing with a Swastika instead of the normal crossbones thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPG6vIN8Kx8

Video by cecilily - We need to talk about the Nazi past of Smogon

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This is so outrageous it seems fake, but they adressed it last year and decided not to change the name which is peak freeze-gamer

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[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 hours ago

From what I understand of the current pokemon competitive community, it's actually really cool people, a lot of the most well known folks in the community like BigYellow and PlagueVonKarma are nonbinary or trans, and it seems to be a really supportive community where people encourage each other rather than the sort of toxic communities the far right creates. I've had quite a few people start up a nice chat with me after a match, which I can't really say for most competitive online communities.

[-] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 2 points 2 hours ago

It's good to know there's at least one good group out there. I only ever met one competitive Pokemon player and he was a pretty nice kid.

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