Most fans of Pokémon will engage in some sort of a community for the games they play and the things that they enjoy in relation to the franchise. Evidently, the same also very much applies to me for the Pokémon things I enjoy. However, there may be a point when a fan may have to seek engagement in a different community for certain reasons in order to maintain their enjoyment. Those communities are what I want to discuss in this post along with the aspects related to them.
Certainly, one part of this is the rationale or reason why a fan would want to seek out alternative communities. They may be fed up with the way that a certain community is structured, even if only in partial, and would like to be able to be involved in a different way. If not fed up with the structure and/or its workings, they might be fed up with the people involved in them and do not wish to be influenced by or become like them. At least some of these (and other) reasons may have some validity.
There are several possibilities for the ways that alternative communities could be realized. An alternate group for "more civilized" but still hardcore play could be devised, and it would be one that would be more welcoming and less ornery than the original group, eventually becoming a community all its own. It could also be possible to have general-interest groups - that can also then become communities - that would support the undertakings of specific groups, thereby being able to present itself as an alternative community.
I may be considered to have some examples of alternative Pokémon communities. One of my "splinter" raid groups was actually bigger in the past and could have served (or initially have developed) as an alternate community - a very big name Trainer in Pokémon could actually attest that. Meanwhile, I am also part of certain general-interest Pokémon groups - some actually started by certain people I've mentioned here - that could serve as "proto-communities" at the very least for certain efforts.
At any rate, fans of Pokémon (including I myself) will still have to contend with all the possible communities for all corners of the franchise. Yet that also might mean contending with some possible alternative communities if some of the present ones present their own quirks and issues. Still, that seems to be the nature of certain fandoms like Pokémon, whose fans might be pretty fluid in getting along with others of their kind - even ones that can serve to fill voids others might create.
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