The fandom sure does know how to take something creepy and just turn that dial up a thousand notches.

I request context.

tol'kaed said:
I request context.

Official pokemon leak of a story were a typhlosion rapes a woman.

tol'kaed said:
I request context.

Typhlosion gaslights, and rapes a women and the women bares his kid.

thunderchang said:
Typhlosion gaslights, and rapes a women and the women bares his kid.

The woman and the child then become Typhlosions after having the pelt of one draped over them.

it's too late, they've already sensationalized it. Warping these silly folk tales into this stupid justified idea that Gamefreak wanted to have dirty freaky stories like that.
When in actuality, they were probably thinking about thier own culture and how to add that into a part of thier game's culture. Maybe they were just spitballing ideas.
It just saddens me that people are overlooking the cultural parallels in favor of pointing out the obvious bad shit that also probably happens in irl folktales.
All in all, I think some director took a look at these and was like "Yep, this isn't going in the kids game" and told them to kill it. And there it remained, somewhere within the files, where we were never meant to see it

Edit: sorry for the outburst, I just saw people talking bad stuff on twitter and it made my anxiety kick in.

jangle22 said:
But how do you really feel?

Like I need to protect typhlosion, my baby doesn't need those allegations

Holy shit. This "gigaleak" is crazy.

porkato said:
it's too late, they've already sensationalized it. Warping simple folk tales into this stupid justified idea that Gamefreak wanted to have dirty freaky stories like that.
When in actuality, they were probably thinking about thier own culture and how to add that into a part of thier game's culture. Maybe they were just spitballing ideas.
It just saddens me that people are overlooking the cultural parallels in favor of the pointing out the obvious bad shit that also happens in irl folktales.
But yeah, I think some director took a look at these and was like "Yep, this isn't going in a kids game" and told them to kill it. And there it remained, somewhere within the files, where we were never meant to see it

Edit: sorry for the outburst, I just saw people talking bad stuff on twitter and it made my anxiety kick in.

Having any expectations for the Twitterati is a losing proposition.

frostii_7 said:
Having any expectations for the Twitterati is a losing proposition.

I know. I've calmed down now. Some time has passed and it seems like people have finally put two and two together and are reassuring people that the decade old scrapped folktales are not canonical and do not reflect what is currently presented in-game.

porkato said:
it's too late, they've already sensationalized it. Warping simple folk tales into this stupid justified idea that Gamefreak wanted to have dirty freaky stories like that.
When in actuality, they were probably thinking about thier own culture and how to add that into a part of thier game's culture. Maybe they were just spitballing ideas.
It just saddens me that people are overlooking the cultural parallels in favor of the pointing out the obvious bad shit that also happens in irl folktales.
But yeah, I think some director took a look at these and was like "Yep, this isn't going in a kids game" and told them to kill it. And there it remained, somewhere within the files, where we were never meant to see it

Edit: sorry for the outburst, I just saw people talking bad stuff on twitter and it made my anxiety kick in.

"I assure you, it is absolutely crucial for the game's development that we right down this story about a dude using a sea creature like a fleshlight!"

I saw the leaks, bro. I know what I read.

porkato said:
Like I need to protect typhlosion, my baby doesn't need those allegations

seeing as it was never released, i don't consider it a canon story and just an edgy fanfic

pelleelle said:
seeing as it was never released, i don't consider it a canon story and just an edgy fanfic

The fact that they could've deleted those but never did makes me question why they didn't, The Arceus story looks fine and well tuned into the mythos like other worlds where the immortals and the mortals have babies and etc etc.

"Haha typhlosion raped a woman, gamefreak is freaky, so are you bro-"
"Can you not-"
"Cope."
Imagine not wanting to be on the receiving end of those jokes for having in the past, liked something, just because someone else decided they were going to judge you for what someone else wrote before both of you were aware of it.

curonrd said:
The fact that they could've deleted those but never did makes me question why they didn't[.]

Possibly for use as reference material later should they need to revisit a more folkloric take (i.e. Legends Arceus).

why is no one talking about the poor hisuian typhlosions getting caught in the center of the crossfire?

pelleelle said:
seeing as it was never released, i don't consider it a canon story and just an edgy fanfic

It literally isn't canon because it's not part of any of the games. It was actually just rotting in a metaphorical vault until someone scooped the pile it laid in out of that vault and spilled its guts onto the internet, so it can't be treated as "real". I can understand being put off by a story like this, but anyone taking it seriously is genuinely just fabricating their own problem.

As far as I'm concerned, if Vaporeon fans had to put up with everyone posting that unfunny copypasta, y'all can handle this.

stuffinabox said:
"Haha typhlosion raped a woman, gamefreak is freaky, so are you bro-"
"Can you not-"
"Cope."
Imagine not wanting to be on the receiving end of those jokes for having in the past, liked something, just because someone else decided they were going to judge you for what someone else wrote before both of you were aware of it.

too tired to decipher what the hell this means or is referring to but go off king

honestly all these stories that came out of it are basically just Yokai legends with pokemon shoehorned in

The Typlosion story is essentally the story of Yuki-onna with the gender roles reversed.

imthinkinarbys said:
"I assure you, it is absolutely crucial for the game's development that we right down this story about a dude using a sea creature like a fleshlight!"

I saw the leaks, bro. I know what I read.

Yeah, it is.

When crafting a fictional world, you need to have a baseline set of in-universe back stories and in-universe "lore" which everything else is built on top of. You don't necessarily show/tell those stories, but having them there gives all the writers on the team an understanding of how the world works, how characters interact and why certain things are the way they are.

cryptid258 said:
granted stuff like that happens in nature but considering the sapience of pokemon its gross, now people being racist

I know rape is bad but hows pokegate racist?

#Notalltyphlosion

imthinkinarbys said:
"I assure you, it is absolutely crucial for the game's development that we right down this story about a dude using a sea creature like a fleshlight!"

I saw the leaks, bro. I know what I read.

Literally all of the stories in the leak are old Japanese folklore that they rewrote to feature Pokemon instead. Just FYI. Nothing points to them even being intended to be used in the games. Developers tend to do things like this unofficially for shits and giggles. In their old Q&A section Rare (the OLD Rare, pre-Microsoft acquisition) once admitted their artists did in-game versions of Krystal in stuff like lingerie. This was back when the game was Dinosaur Planet and StarFox was nowhere to be seen, so before other people went wild with lewding her their own artists were doing it themselves.

There's LOTS of stories in this vein over the decades. So the Game Freak stuff isn't that surprising.

This leak caused a massive storm within the fandom and people will no longer tell that they like him or the others because they'd get bullied by people thinking they'd condone that.

stuffinabox said:
"Haha typhlosion raped a woman, gamefreak is freaky, so are you bro-"
"Can you not-"
"Cope."
Imagine not wanting to be on the receiving end of those jokes for having in the past, liked something, just because someone else decided they were going to judge you for what someone else wrote before both of you were aware of it.

ginkei said:
This leak caused a massive storm within the fandom and people will no longer tell that they like him or the others because they'd get bullied by people thinking they'd condone that.

It's just some stream of consciousness writing from Game Freak creative that got leaked and people are meming about it because it's entertaining. No one is taking it seriously and it's best if you don't either.

aomikan said:
It's just some stream of consciousness writing from Game Freak creative that got leaked and people are meming about it because it's entertaining. No one is taking it seriously and it's best if you don't either.

"No one's taking it seriously."

Have you never seen Twitter react to anything before? Lots of people are taking it seriously. Never underestimate the ability of people on Twitter taking even the most ridiculous thing seriously and causing drama over it.

hughmann762 said:
I know rape is bad but hows pokegate racist?

people on twitter are condeming all typhlosion cause of the scrapped folk tale...

People thinking this is seriously canon and that Game Freak likes kids are forgetting about the Spongebob leaks we just had earlier this year.

drakkenfyre said:
"No one's taking it seriously."

Have you never seen Twitter react to anything before? Lots of people are taking it seriously. Never underestimate the ability of people on Twitter taking even the most ridiculous thing seriously and causing drama over it.

Why should anyone anywhere ever give two shits about what anybody on Twitter thinks?

drakkenfyre said:
In their old Q&A section Rare (the OLD Rare, pre-Microsoft acquisition) once admitted their artists did in-game versions of Krystal in stuff like lingerie. This was back when the game was Dinosaur Planet and StarFox was nowhere to be seen, so before other people went wild with lewding her their own artists were doing it themselves.

There's LOTS of stories in this vein over the decades. So the Game Freak stuff isn't that surprising.

And let's not forget the legendary "porn vault" sealed deep within the bowels of Disney.

cryptid258 said:
people on twitter are condeming all typhlosion cause of the scrapped folk tale...

Its a cartoon badger nobody's racially profiling them outside smut doujins

kow93 said:
People thinking this is seriously canon and that Game Freak likes kids are forgetting about the Spongebob leaks we just had earlier this year.

What happened?

drakkenfyre said:
"No one's taking it seriously."

Have you never seen Twitter react to anything before? Lots of people are taking it seriously. Never underestimate the ability of people on Twitter taking even the most ridiculous thing seriously and causing drama over it.

It's a bit tiring when real issues are happening on Earth right now and at the end of the day we're all fapping to fantastical creatures...

ginkei said:
What happened?

I was never a Spongebob fan so I don't keep up with anything in it specifically but I do like discussions/videos on lost media and there was an infamous episode that was about Spongebob learning to swear after seeing graffiti on a dumpster calling Mr. Krabs out, and the word gets repeated over and over and it's bleeped every time. The rumor was that the VAs were actually cursing during the recording session and an uncensored version existed. This had been denied for years. Until it got leaked. And some of them were indeed cursing.

That's the only thing controversial I can think of that they might be referring to.

It's a bit tiring when real issues are happening on Earth right now and at the end of the day we're all fapping to fantastical creatures...

If all one does is pay attention to the horrible issues in the real world 24/7 you'll quickly get burned out. But yeah, Twitter's gonna Twit.

drakkenfyre said:
I was never a Spongebob fan so I don't keep up with anything in it specifically but I do like discussions/videos on lost media and there was an infamous episode that was about Spongebob learning to swear after seeing graffiti on a dumpster calling Mr. Krabs out, and the word gets repeated over and over and it's bleeped every time. The rumor was that the VAs were actually cursing during the recording session and an uncensored version existed. This had been denied for years. Until it got leaked. And some of them were indeed cursing.

That's the only thing controversial I can think of that they might be referring to.

If all one does is pay attention to the horrible issues in the real world 24/7 you'll quickly get burned out. But yeah, Twitter's gonna Twit.

Oh right, the dolphin noise episode! I always wanted to hear the unfiltered version.

Yeah, I'm wondering how people could even mentally endure that.

Twitter folks apparently have too much free time...

It was a ditto

cryptid258 said:
granted stuff like that happens in nature but considering the sapience of pokemon its gross, now people being racist

Racism is when people online make jokes of fictional animals. Please be serious.