Genwunner

Genwunners are the loyal and dedicated fans of Gen 1 Pokemon and no other gens after that. The fanbase was founded in 2000 and has been growing in popularity ever since.
== History ==
In 2000, Pokemon Gen 2 was announced. This was a controversial move to say the least and a lot of fans didn't think the newer games had the same spirit as the original ones. This caught the eye of Sir William Geewun IV who founded the Geewun Association of Yorkshire as a community for upset fans to gather and discuss their favorite games. From there the Gen 1 community started to grow until Grandpa Phil, A famous member of the Pokemon community at the time, Joined the Geewun Association of Yorkshire which helped popularize the concept of Genwunners early on in the rest of the Pokemon fanbase. Eventually, Grandpa Phil was given leadership of the Geewun Association of Yorkshire and in turn essentially became the face of the community. 
Grandpa Phil alongside fellow Gen 1 fan Lyman ultimately decided that the community needed to band together and become its own thing so they changed the name of the community to the Genwunner Association of Yorkshire and popularized the term "Genwunner" in the process until it became the default term for a fan of exclusively Gen 1.
Under the early leadership of Grandpa Phil, The Genwunners became more and more tradition-oriented and tight-knit. Celebrating game release dates, Hosting meetings for fellow Genwunners, Reliving the past in ways such as bringing Garlic Bread because Grandpa Phil ate some while playing Gen 1 and it grew popular as a result and many more activities like that were done by Genwunners to celebrate their love for the first games.
In 2001, Grandpa Phil organized the first protest against Gen 2 at his local game store with a few other Genwunners. They all held up signs describing Gen 2 as "Not real Pokemon", A phrase that quickly grew popular among Genwunners, And walked around in circles until security threw them out. Protests quickly grew popular among Genwunners and resulted in tons of backlash and controversy from not only Gen 2 Fanatics but also game stores who were quick to ban Genwunners as a result.
== Criticism ==
Ever since the Genwunner fanbase was founded, It was met with criticism and dislike from other members of the Pokemon community. Gen 2 Fanatics tended to describe Genwunners as "Stubborn" and not willing to "Give [Gen 2] a chance". 
GenFourmers were among the first faction of Pokemon Fans to popularize the hatred of Genwunners and make it mainstream. GenFourmers made countless "memes" and reddit posts about how much they hate Genwunners and the first Pokemon games. This grew so much that for the first time in series history, Gen 1 hate was the mainstream and common opinion as countless Deviantart and Reddit users dunked on Genwunner arguments as to why they're allowed to like their favorite game and not Gen 4. 
This sentiment of Gen 1 hate being mainstream while pretending it's the "Unpopular opinion" is prevalent to this day with most neckbeards not knowing that the reason there are more posts complaining about Genwunners than Genwunners complaining about modern games is because Genwunners actually have lives and don't scour Reddit for any instances of people talking about Roblox Pokemon fangames so they can hate on them and shill for their inferior clone game that nobody likes.
GenFivers were once as hated as Genwunners but then that weird thing happened where it's the backlash to the backlash to the thing that's just begun and then suddenly everyone started liking Gen 5 despite hating it because I think Gen 5 hate was too mainstream so a bunch of contrarians flipped the script and now everyone realizes that they were too harsh with their judgements. Due to this mutual position of being hated by the Pokemon fanbase, Genwunners and GenFivers kinda had this truce thing going on where they didn't insult each other's games until Gen 5 stopped being hated so much. GenFivers then turned on the Genwunners and started insulting Gen 1 alongside the other members of the Pokemon fanbase.
== In Popular Culture ==
In the Rick and Morty Episode "Return of Cousin Nicky", It is confirmed that Nicky is a Genwunner who plays the Gen 1 game rereleases on his 3DS with his friend Ernie.
On the popular gaming platform "Roblox", There's a player who wears a Pokemon outfit. I just thought that was kinda neat. The downside however is that they're dressed as a character from Gen 5. You know the one.
In the Cleveland Show episode "Cleveland Vs. Fun is Infinite Sonic", There's a cutaway gag involving a Genwunner and some woman named Karen fighting over the last frozen piece of Garlic Bread at a supermarket.
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