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It has come to light that the original logo in 2004 was a Koffing with a Swastika instead of the normal crossbones thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPG6vIN8Kx8

Video by cecilily - We need to talk about the Nazi past of Smogon

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This is so outrageous it seems fake, but they adressed it last year and decided not to change the name which is peak freeze-gamer

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[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago

Yeah that sounds reasonable to me. There’s of course going to be heavy backlash from people who have grown attached to it but enough people will get over it.