User blog comment:Element02/Genwunners/@comment-3400761-20130620145710

An interesting point, and I have to say that I have come across similiar things before. Honestly, I suspect that it is linked to the whole Pokemon=childish thing in at least a few cases.

There is also the fact that it is easier to look back on the past with fondness; when you were a little kid the Pokemon of Gen 1 were original. Hell, I remember I loved the heck out of Voltorb or Magnimite. They were freaking awesome to me.

In contrast, the later cames came out when I was older and able to look at things a bit more clinically. It  was Hoenn that really suffered from this, and or a while I really did think that Gen1 was the best,  most original generation. I still have a fondness for them now actually.

You can still see this kind of reaction today whenever a new generation is announced. Everyone will instantly decide that it is merely a pale shadow of whatever generation came before, with nothing original to add and merely further proof that GF is slowly erodding from witihin.

Only to repeat the whole thing again the next time a new gen is announced to. Honestly, its been the pattern since second gen, so I kind of come to expect it now. But there are those who never get over it,  who will always see a new generation is a bastion of decay and unoriginality. That's the origin of a Genwunner. Its not that they're trolls, they're simply fans who were never able to get over  the new generations and who see it as a compittion. They don't see every Pokemon as one big group -- they see them like armies, divided by generation and fighting for popularity. Its why they're so vehment about their defence of generation one. They honestly feel that it is threatened.

I could honestly say that they miss the whole message of the generation they love so much.