I love how 300,000 - 400,000 people show up for the premier of Emerald and then disappear the next day, thus bringing the stream back down to the 10,000s like what Crystal had
Where did everyone go? Were they just like, waiting for Emerald to start to see who we chose as a trainer and starter was like "Alright, now it's time to leave and never come back" and that was it? What the heck, internet?

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Thankfully it's harder to release Pokemon in this game than in Gen II thanks to 'Release' being an extra button lower, so now instead of 3 downs it now requires 4, and considering the left, right and B spam, it's becoming less and less likely a release will happen
So who knows, maybe the PC is now actually able to be used for once? Though things will probably remain as they are considering how traumatized people were after Bloody Sunday