Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-36518582-20190118135802/@comment-36518582-20190201160738

I've always loved them, but what I think  made people lose interest (at least in my opinion) is that the majority of these stories are all cookie-cutter copies. They all use the same premise (hacked/haunted cartidges), have the same cliches (abandonment issues, overpossessiveness, death and gore for the sake of death and gore, the games are all gameboy cartridges, the characters know your real name blahblahblah), the same pokemon are usually the lead antagonists (like eevee and its evelutions, pikachu, charizard, mew, any of the iconic pokemon, though its mostly just the aforemenioned), and the grammar, most of the time, is horrific. To me, it feels like those authors have absolutely no creativity whatsoever.

For me at least, these stories all end up blending together and theyre all just the same tbh. It's painfully boring to read these stores. It seems like people left or grew bored because of this.

What I think could help with the revival of the wikia is a themed story (art too possibly?) contest or something? I think it could be a fun idea. It could help people think out of the box and test new waters. It would help people grow as writers.