I personally love the era of fake leaks when a new game is coming out/been revealed, it's so fun to see all of this stuff that gets the community theorizing real or not, and also it's ridiculously fun to see fake leak "culture" evolve, such as when the Alolan final start evo leaks where proven to be true, when sword and shield were revealed, a lot of the fake leaks, mainly starter ones, were in the style of those real leaks
Also side note, i remember no one thought the starter leaks were real at first until they were revealed