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Everybody at the table got here somehow.

Maybe you started with Red & Blue. Maybe the anime introduced you to Pokémon. Maybe you collected cards as a kid and came back 20 years later.

Maybe your kids brought you back.

Maybe Pokémon GO got you walking.

Maybe you just opened your first pack last week.

Maybe you collect, battle, trade, draw, play competitively—or you simply have one Pokémon you've loved your entire life.

There’s no wrong way to be part of Pokémon, and there’s no such thing as being “too new” to have a story.

So we want to hear yours. 💜

How did Pokémon become part of your life?

Tell us where it started, where you are now, your favorite Pokémon, game, card, memory—whatever makes your journey yours.

👇 Drop your Pokémon story below.

Different generations. Different players. Different stories.

One table.

🪑 Pull up a chair.

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I've been thinking about how differently two people can say “I’m into Pokémon” and mean almost completely different things.

One person may play the mainline games competitively. Another only collects the TCG. Someone else plays GO every day, plays Pocket casually, shiny hunts, watches the anime, collects specific Pokémon, or hasn't touched a mainline game in years.

Yet all of them still identify as Pokémon fans.

What interests me is that Pokémon seems to have reached a point where the franchise isn't necessarily the hobby anymore—it's almost an ecosystem containing a bunch of independent hobbies that happen to share the same creatures and world.

And those hobbies don't always overlap.

Someone can know competitive VGC incredibly well and know almost nothing about the TCG. A serious card player might barely understand Pokémon GO. A lifelong collector might not care about battling at all.

So I'm curious:

Do you think Pokémon still has a central experience that defines being a Pokémon fan?

Or has the franchise become large enough that there really isn't one anymore?

And if there is still a center—what is it?