User blog comment:MellowSquash/How Many Pokemon Creepy Pastas Can There Be?/@comment-3551581-20110926073505

The IDEA of VG pastas really appeals to me (Can't explain why. Just a preference, I guess.), along with the idea of finding something cleverly hidden in an innocent game published by a company that loves to censor everything. There's some Pokepastas I really enjoy, like Death Snap, Lost Silver, Black, Lavender Town Tone/Syndrome/Pokemon 731. As for Pokemon itself, the games stopped being good after Gen 2 IMO, but the idea of finding something that makes Missingno look pathetic, rare and dummied-out events, things like Lake of Rage once having a gym, or a town that got deleted but still has map information... That's some pretty good fodder for the VG pastas genre.

So I guess my stance is neutral (And I'm enjoying writing a Pokepasta right now. Guilty pleasure.)

But yeah, Sturgeon's Law absolutely applies here. With the sheer number of lousy Pokepastas, I can see why people would start to hate them.