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
This is so outrageous it seems fake, but they adressed it last year and decided not to change the name which is peak 
True but we also don't want kids to unknowingly repeat Nazi dogwhistles. Maybe that's why Smogon gets zero attention in official spaces, turns out Nintendo doesn't want anything to do with a community whose name is a reference to gas chambers. I'm just mind-boggled that people don't see this as that big of an issue.
"Yes my community is called SS88 but we are different and mature now and getting more popular than ever"