Doesn't matter how many books are written about the character, how many videos are made about the character, how many people believe in the character. If the foundational premise (ie that the character existed in reality) is false, everything else is just masturbation: a relationship for one. Plus the fact that people are now questioning this character's existence merely indicates a society that is finally growing up from the childhood of its past.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'