>>57704090Won't ever happen until they make up a new type that no fan can possibly ever predict, because all the pre-existing types and common fan types have multiple well-known fan designs in Japan.
>>57704667It sets precedent if they slide hush money to the artist, precedent that inspires faggots to start mass producing fakemons of every conceivable design ever so they can goad Pokemon into giving them hush money.
Now imagine this happening in the era of AI imagegen slop, literally EVERYONE can shit out gorillions of designs even if they aren't actually an artist.