you ever see a poll and just Know that a character lost purely because their source material is less well known than the winning character’s
there’ll be polls that are like “bipolar swag bracket round 1: PIKACHU from POKEMON vs SQUIMBUS from SOME MANGA FROM 2003 THAT ONLY SOLD 40 COPIES”
and you’ll look in the comments and it’s all “vote squimbus!” and *8 paragraph essay about how squimbus canonically has bipolar* and “#squimbus sweep!” and “squimbus my beloved” and *personal story about how squimbus inspired them to get help for their bipolar disorder*
and the only comment referencing pikachu is like “i have no clue who squimbus is but i like pikachu”
so you decide “yeah sure i’ll vote for squimbus why not” and you see the results and it’s like
pikachu: 93%
squimbus: 7%
bipolar swag bracket round 1: PIKACHU from POKEMON vs SQUIMBUS from SOME MANGA FROM 2003 THAT ONLY SOLD 40 COPIES
pikachu
squimbus
See Results
i was like “yeah how the hell would anyone consider Pikachu bipolar” and then i was like “ohhh… I guess electric batteries are bipolar”
(i blame that other post about lithium)
(and also the pattern recognizer in my head)