Shipping as a whole in pokemon ticks my gears.
With the advent of go and Nostalgia pandering being the name of the game all the Misty fans are in full force, and it's honestly annoying.
Seriously even Melody or that latias being movie exclusives had more going for Ash than Misty in the Japanese version.
Everything about Misty was added by the dub, except like 3 scenes in all of Misty run, including the movies.
4kids is to blame for this when there was nothing in the original and people take this religiously, then link certain poketubers videos about this shipping, and you know? Those videos have the comment section locked because apparently they can't handle the fact that 4kids creates this ship and it has absolutely no relevance to the japanese writers of that time and this age in the slightest.
Shipping is obnoxious, but shipping over something that doesn't exist and being vocal about it is worse...
On all my screening of the Pokémon Anime there where pretty much 2 movie ships that amounted to nothing including latias, Anabel, Angie, Bayleef the only confirmed one despite its weirdness and then we had Serena...
I can expect shipping to get worse soon as we exit XYZ, in the past with every Anime gen starting the new region all the vocal fans start to rumble about the return of a character, especially Misty due to nostalgia googles, but with go and nostalgia pandering this could get nasty and it is showing.