15 Minutes to 40+ Minutes: Pokémon YouTube Landscape Evolves to Enormous Subsection

“Pokémon Blue” plays on a TV Feb. 27, 2024. The “Pokémon” series recently celebrated its 30th anniversary. Photo by Tony Gleason For 30 years now, fans have been catching ‘em all in the “Pokémon” series of video games. For the fans who wanted more though, they’ve had Pokémon YouTube to create content, which — just like the Pokémon themselves — has evolved. Multiple “Pokémon” YouTubers (PokéTubers) said the PokéTube landscape has evolved over the years, each with their own trends and big name channels dominating the space. What was once barely a community, has grown into a massive subsection of YouTube. “Now it’s so big that we’ve kind of almost gone back to where we started, where the “Pokémon” content creators are kind of in their own small section of the community, because there’s so much to cover,” said YouTuber Josh Wittenkeller, who runs the channel TheJWittz. YouTuber Ron Sroor, who runs the channel Truegreen7, said the PokéTube landscape can be divided into three generations characterized by the most popular content from each: Gen I from 2012-2013, Gen II from 2014-2018 and Gen III from 2019-present. Generation I: Birth of PokéTubing The first-ever video about “Pokémon” was uploaded to YouTube
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