#Poketrainer Switch

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My persona as a Ghost Type Pokemon trainer! Themed heavily around Mismagius, one of my favorite ghost pokemon (Close behind are Chandelure & Froslass), This art took a little while to complete, fixing lots of little details and attempting to shade, I think this is a fun milestone I've hit in getting better at art :)

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Ready for the next adventure! 🌟  made by Lulu Lousvart

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Pokepreciation/Pokeganda Overview

Hullo all! Mun Donut here. 

There’s been a recent influx of people joining the Pokemon apprecation/Pokemon propaganda community and uhm. First of all as someone who was active at the height of this small subcommunity I’d like to say that seeing it starting to come back up again is AWESOME (I currently follow quite a few, but I’ve only seen a handful of propaganda blogs post semi-regularly)

I hope this doesn’t come across as pretentious or anything, but I think it would be nice to inform people of the origins of the subcommunity (at least, to my knowledge. I stay away from drama so there’s probably a few things I don’t know about)

Where did it come from?

Awhile back, a twitter user created an account that that went along the lines of a pokemon name + “propaganda”. They dedicated the account to anything and everything about the pokemon- basically spreading love for it (not unlike what we do today). I’m keeping the name private for reasons you’ll see later. 

Eventually, this trend spread to tumblr and a small community formed, with users making accounts dedicated to loving their own pokemon.

The trend later began to encompass poketrainers as well, which is where I come in. Trainerganda blogs generally followed the same vein as Pokeganda blogs, though roleplaying wasn’t uncommon among these blogs (some preferred to simply curate content of their favourite characters, though. It just boiled down to how an individual wanted to run their blog)

What do you do as an Appreciation/Propaganda account?

Anything you want, really! The only thing you need to become one is to add appreciation/propaganda to the end of your url. 

Along with reblogging relevant content, I’ve seen people form something similar to an ask blog and roleplay with these accounts (I do all three!). Though, for those people new in the community there really isn’t a “wrong” way to run a pokeprecation/pokeganda blog. Just do whatever suits you best 😊.

Why is it PokePreciation or PokeGanda?

Hooh boy. I’ll keep this one short since it involves some controversy. 

Back in 2020, the creator of the trend came under fire for saying some pretty racist things. As a result, some members of the community decided to switch their URLs from “propaganda” to “appreciation” to detach themselves from the original creator. Some people kept the propaganda url, but that doesn’t mean they don’t agree with the beliefs of the original. And honestly, I do still think the propaganda url is kinda cool.

I was one of the people who changed my url back then, though, which is why I’m named the way I am today! 

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And um, yeah! That’s all I have haha. Donut out :>

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Lucky Again. This was filmed from the first row and the man can barely project his voice. He's also expressionless.

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Fairy type Trainer Switchsona, with their partner, Ribombee!

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A drawing of my Sona s a Normal type trainer, with Sawsbuck (Winter)!