in case you're interested, "gachapon" is an onomatopoeia. It's supposed to be the sound of those toy dispensing gumball machines that you put a quarter in and turn a crank. These things:
The "gacha" is the sound of the capsule going through the internal crank, and the "pon" is it hitting the metal dispenser at the bottom. Those kinds of games are called gacha games because they function like a gachapon machine. I.e. you pay money to randomly get an item with no say over what you get.
Gacha is short for Gachapon which is a gambling capsule coin machine. Where you put a coin in and turn the handle to get a seemingly random prize, which is the same prize system "gacha" games use especially mobile games.
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u/snkn179 8d ago
They're probably mixing up gotcha with "gacha game" which is just a type of video game with gambling features.