Oh hey, welcome! Nice to have a new member after all this time. I seriously thought the club was gonna die for a second. Looks like we pulled a Rory and WE'RE BACK PEEPS!!!
I agree with both of you. It seems like the majority of pasta is about lame stories of finding a haunted cartridge or a vengeful childhood partner. In addition, the Pokepasta genre has gained the reputation of being all the same because all the really successful ones follow mainly the same format. Lost Silver, Creepy Black, Strangled Red...they all have the same framework, but fairly different topics. It stands that it's quite difficult to write a pasta on this framework not only because it's so common, but because it doesn't give you much to begin with. There's a reason that creepy black, lost silver, etc. are so well known- they stood out from the mass of unoriginal pasta. It takes a lot to get your work out there. If anyone is here still that remembers my pasta contest entry, then you'll recall that it was fairly well written, but not the most original and probably wouldn't have held its own out on the real Internet.
We see a lot of examples of cool, well-formulated pastas that don't get attention. Loss of Purpose, for instance, is really nicely written, and yet has very little fan support. N's Rage was a phenomenal pasta, but is extremely obscure. Same with the whole Kcalb thing. That originated as a prank 4youknowwhat post, and actually made it fairly far, mainly because it was featured in the webcomic Black Adventures, and could have made it farther if it got more publicity. Unfortunately, because when you think of Pokepasta, you think of Lost Silver and the other famous ones, that's all that gets fanservice and the rest, however good, gets forgotten.
And that's my rant. Which made very little sense. :P