alt Hacker Newsindeed, i always understood a "fad" to mean some short-lived trend. meanwhile, pokemon is probably around the same age as the average HN user.
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alephnerd • yesterday at 8:54 PM
> probably around the same age as the average HN user.
Based on the references and speech patterns I've seen on HN, I think the average HNers is at least a decade older than Pokemon. The first Pokemon videogame only came out in 1996.
Y'all are boomers - nothing wrong with that, but HN has become an older monoculture.
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Pokemon itself is not a trend but the current hype around the cards is and has only been around for a few years.