Let's talk about fake Dragon Ball news/The series' relationship to rumors

[precita]

It's a shame the western Dragonball fandom is in shambles. I'm not surprised given the huge fad Dragonball was in the early 2000's.

Any franchise that becomes huge like Dragonball, TMNT, Power Rangers, Pokemon, Harry Potter, etc....is of course going to have a huge chunk of clueless or horrible people in the fandoms. Many of them have been ruining online fandoms for the last 15-20 years.

[floofychan333]

I typed up a huge response to this, but using aspergers to explain the phenomena may come off the wrong way, and I don't feel like dealing with the inevitable backlash.

...but yeah, basically it's aspergers, and this is coming from someone who's dealt with several wonderful autistic children. I really do mean it in the most non-offensive way possible. Those of us who have been involved with them pretty much know that what we see with the more obnoxious part of the Dragon Ball fandom is an obvious reflection of that.

where was Asperger's Syndrome mentioned in the original post?

[Kamiccolo9]

Is it really just Dragonball? The Pokemon franchise has constantly had "fake Pokemon" passed off as real ones right before every new major game release into tricking people new designs are revealed, and this is going back 15-20 years. Japanese fans even go as far to mimic the Coro Coro scans that generally reveal new Pokemon games/anime stuff and make their own fanart out of it and pass it off as real. Not to mention the stuff with legendary pokemon and how to get Mew and whatever that's been going on since 1999, or all the glitches/fake stuff about the games.

I actually was thinking of Pokemon as I was typing this post, as, yes, it goes through a similar cycle of fake news approaching each game release, and playground rumors were inseparable from the experience of playing the games during the height of the series as a '90s fad (shoutouts to Pikablu and Mew being under that truck).

However, that's more understandable to me as:

1) It's a video-game, which will always, particular for younger kids and in an era when the internet wasn't widespread, have a certain air of mystery to it. Who knows what could be in the code? The ability to trigger massive glitches by calling up unintended hex codes and Nintendo playing into the mystery of the world intentionally by holding off on the release of Pokemon like Mew helped fan those flames as well. You didn't just use glitches to replace your Blastoise's identifier with an inaccessible hexcode above index number 150 and pull in a bunch of garbage data; you evolved him into the Pokegod Rainer. There was a bunch of nonsense, but it was all based on in-game weirdness and the childish need for explanations.

The rumor I remember was that you could get the Armored Mewtwo from the first movie if you did a series of correct button presses on the space where Giovanni once stood in the Viridian Gym Strong, electric meat, indeed.