>>46337160I don't think so. The big difference is that previously people seemed to enjoy Pokémon. Nowadays people endure Pokémon.
Try to find archives of posts between 2013 and 2016. They all had this kind of bliss that made them fun, and not only it were the MSP threads, there also was Pokéquest, a CYOA comic that worked more or less like a tabletop game where the comic artist acted as a dungeon master.