>>58822479It doesn't have anything to do with the Electric Soldier Porygon controversy, it's because it's accurate to real life. As much as Pokemon insists it's separated itself from our reality, it's arguably more intertwined today than it was in 1996.
We made big tech innovations with the internet (Porygon) and then it became accessible and hospitable to a growing, global audience (Porygon2), and then completely stopped progressing beyond that point aside from "the same thing with better hardware."
Z's only aged like fine wine as the endpoint of the line, because its behavior now reflects the hallucinatory, barely functional AI slop future we live in, and our lingering sentiments about the possibility of AI becoming truly alive rather than reactionary systems which only function in direct response to queries and inputs.
If a new Porygon happens, it'll be when big tech makes another massive leap to justify its existence. Until then, they'll keep putting Rotom in machines because Rotom itself was mutated into a metaphor for Apple branding and smart devices ever since the Rotomdex.
