>>56060495Because the franchise genuinely has nothing else going on for it.
Horizons is boring, no one cares about the manga, there's no spinoffs except for mobileshit and literal garbage like Detective Pikachu 2 to fill the void, the TCG is oversaturated to combat scalpers and thus nothing feels novel anymore, even romhacks are a barren wasteland of a scene because everyone only cares about clout now, so the only thing that gets made are Radical Red-like kitchen sink difficulty hacks.
/vp/, of course, being full of people who don't actually engage with any media other than Pokemon, becomes significantly more negative as a result, and this makes the board ripe for schizophrenia, shitposting, baiting and flaming.
