What makes a Pokemon 'cute'?
Fuckablity
If it's generic as fuck it's likely "cute".
>>26539916
>bkub
>>26539916
Small body, big eyes, demure nature
>>26539958
>implying
>>26539916
Being a pink blobI fucking love pink blobs
>>26539916
One feature of many sentimental paintings is the use of an implicit visual scheme. In such works, children, adults, or animals have the features known to psychologists as Lorenz's babyness, or das Kinderschema. Lorenz (1943) described how the young of a variety of species of mammals share a set of physical characteristics: (a) large head relative to body size, rounded head; (b) large, protruding forehead; (c) large eyes relative to face, eyes below midline of head; (d) rounded, protruding cheeks; (e) rounded body shape; and (f) soft, elastic body surfaces (see Eibl-Eibesfelt, 1970). From the ethological perspective that Lorenz pioneered, these properties were assumed automatically to evoke positive feelings and caretaking from adults. This mechanism would have adaptive value for the gene pool in that it would support caretaking and hence survival of the young. In terms of art, the use of babyness is clearly an idealization of childhood with an emphasis on sweetness and vulnerability - the stuff of sentimentality.
