Josi doesn't believe in the helix, he is now being punished for his treachery.
I never grew up with pokemon: we were too poor and religious lol. I see stuff like that and relate but don't find entertaining. Did you play pokemon as a young kali?
I played pokemon red, and nothing afterwards. I don't know the name of a single pokemon after mewtwo, except maybe the legendary birds, I know those.
I just find the theme to be cute, and I like it. The twitch stream is chaos and anything can happen makes it interesting, but mostly so frustrating to the point I can't watch it anymore, so I only peek in on it every few hours to catch up.
I think my favorite part is that they are keeping track of everything, writing their story as they go on their journey, create lore from it, and the most hilarious and heart breaking moments are created into memes which everyone will hate for eternity.