![]() “Since Twitch Plays Pokémon was consulting the Helix so often, the community came to attribute positive developments to its influence. Then, as this article details, things took a turn: It was constantly selected to no end by the “hivemind” (the mass of players with their will acting as one), and so the main character was assumed to be consulting the Helix Fossil for guidance. A huge cog in that was the Helix Fossil, an item that could not be discarded – only revived Jurassic Park style later in the game. And beyond that, overtones of an entire religious mythos began to fall into place. ![]() Every gibberish name took on deeper meaning. Still, people took that chaos that they themselves were creating and made everything into some grander. The main character would loop in circle after circle, drop items, unintentionally release Pokemon, and any and all nicknames were just gibberish. Players grappled with the simplest of obstacles. Know Your Meme addresses this whole ordeal in a general sense: to give some idea of what Twitch Plays Pokemon was about, here is their overview of the 2014 event: “Twitch Plays Pokémon a live-stream hosted by the video-streaming platform Twitch in which any member of the site participate in a massively multiplayer online co-op version of Nintendo’s series of Pokémon games, starting with Pokémon Red, by inputting various commands in chat.” This does not really capture the madness that was this livestream: I came into it a bit late in the game as an observer, tantalized by friends and Tumblr posts, and by that point, the lore was already in full swing.Īs one can imagine, the fact that any member of the site could participate meant that the more popular the livestream was, the more unplayable it became. I have no concrete way of proving the two events are related, but the thematic similarities are downright uncanny. I would not say it reached the same heights as the alt-right’s use of Pepe, but I saw a lot of shades of an internet phenomena that had taken place about a year prior: Twitch Plays Pokemon’s run through of Pokemon Red. I found myself pondering something as I was reading through the Pepe/Kek articles (by Spencer and the SPLC respectively). Again, I’m sort of shamelessly mashing some of the prompts together.
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