This is a rant question. I read a question involving a video by Proto Mario and the questioner was annoyed. Does it truly matter? You got websites like cracked throwing out pokemon training is crime article or references getting hundred thousand to million to views once in a while. There are people who genuinely believe so and those who don’t may still joke on it. Does it rustle that many people? It shouldn’t stop you from enjoying the series if you disagree. What about you and your readers?

Well, I can’t speak for my readers, but you’re right that it shouldn’t and doesn’t affect my enjoyment of the series.  It does impact my ability to take pride in my own work, when such a (frankly) piss-poor argument for a fairly obvious position can be so much more ‘successful,’ by that particular objective metric, than anything I’ve ever written or, in all probability, ever will.  The end result is that I have to tell myself that my readers are just worth more than their viewers, because anyone who actually goes to the effort of reading my stuff on a regular basis is clearly getting a lot more out of it.

But let’s be honest – I do sound more than a little pretentious in saying things like that, don’t I?