Smoochum.

0:00Smoochum is one of the cutest baby Pokémon ever designed.

0:02Big eyes.

0:05Pouty lips.

0:07Wobbly little run.

0:10Falls down constantly and the first thing it does is check its reflection to make sure it still looks okay.

0:12Kisses everything it meets just to understand the world.

0:14Completely lovable.

0:17And then it evolves.

0:19Jynx appears on almost every "most hated Pokémon" list ever made.

0:22Fans have called it an abomination.

0:24Multiple anime episodes were pulled because Jynx was featured too heavily.

0:27Its design was literally changed — they altered what it looks like — because of how strong the backlash was.

0:29Smoochum doesn't know any of this.

0:31It's just a baby.

0:34Running around.

0:36Being adorable.

0:39No clue that the thing it's growing into is something people actively despise.

0:41And the worst part?

0:43Smoochum can't NOT evolve.

0:46It doesn't get to stay cute forever.

0:48There's no version of this story where it gets to remain the thing people loved.

0:51One day it's Smoochum.

0:53Cute.

0:55Adored.

0:58Lovable.

1:00The next day it wakes up as Jynx.

1:03And that's when it finds out: people didn't love Smoochum.

1:05They loved how cute it was.

1:08They loved the baby version.

1:10The version that was easy to adore.

1:12Smoochum didn't lose anything by growing up.

1:15It just found out the love was never really for it.

1:17Did they love you?

1:20Or did they love the version of you that was easy to love?