I'll just warn whoever actually reads my body text now, this post will be quite lengthyt. So you have been warned, will not be offended if people do not want to read this essay (but big thanks to the ones who will)
So yeah, another whole year of more fakemon, bringing my total now up to 124 fakemon (technically 127 cause I have a line not revealed yet 🤫). But this year overall went pretty well I'd say. No one bear my ice hydra post, but introduced a good amount of new fakemon that people seemed to love, which I always love seeing how much people like these fakemon. I also included (aside from my full current dex) some top favorites. The first one is my personal favorites, then I went through my posts and found the top 5 posts with the most likes and put those as the fan favorites, and then I also wanted to include the favorites of the artist I've been working with, so his favorites are there too. That should sum up the post itself, but now mist discuss another topic
2026 and onward: I think 2026 will be my final year of where I keep posting fakemon at the same rate I have been, which should put me at over 180+ fakemon total, which I will be satisfied with. I might do some posts here and there if I think of a concept I like, but 2027 will definitely be where things slow down or just stop. Now as for what I want to do with all these fakemon, that's where it gets complicated. I originally started this as a fakemon project and wanted to have my own fan game, but that has changed now. Now I want to do my own whole creature project that is completely unrelated to pokemon. And I'll go ahead and explain why since I'm already typing so much; I'm just disappointed in pokemon now and don't want to support them. I don't want to not support them, but I'm tired of them making half-assed games. They're literally the highest grossing franchise in the world, and can't afford to make a good, stable game? You could literally handle the pokemon franchise over to any indie team and they'd do a much superior job compared to gamefreak. And even outside of the video games, the card game is heavily ruined by scalpers, so trying to collect the cards now is just too expensive. So until the pokemon company steps up their game, I unfortunately won't be supporting them anymore. So coming back to my fakemon posts and their future, I'm still posting it as a fakemon thing since I don't know what the best direction for my project is yet (also wouldn't know where to post anymore lol). And hopefully my creatures do have a future somewhere, so fingers crossed I can bring everyone some kind of game or anything really with these guys at some point
But with all of that, I think I hopefully covered everything I wanted to say. I of course have to give a huge thank you to the artist I've been working with, @poketrainervb on Instagram. Without him, these guys wouldn't exist. I highly recommend him if you ever want to bring a fakemon concept to life. And again, a huge thank you to all of you for the support ever since I started these posts. I love seeing all the positive feedback and how much you guys wish these would be actual pokemon, which is a big reason why I really want to bring these guys to life in some kind of game someday. So thank you all, I hope 2026 brings even more fakemon you'll all love, and have a great new year! ❤️
by VORT3XSN1PER