what the fuck

The people you should blame are the people who played niantic’s other game Ingress. When ingress first started players could create portal stations- which are the same locations used for Pokemon Go’s poke stops. So some guy playing ingress made that a portal location and it automatically became a pokestop. Great

Not only that, but there’s a badge in ingress you used to be able to get for submitting portals. So people submitted lots of junk portals to get the badge.