At the moment I’m writing this, in the middle of a work day, there are 75,000 people watching a fidgety video game character jitter restlessly in the corner of a pixelated black and white room. Twitch Plays Pokemon is complete and utter chaos, and it’s the latest piece of internet ephemera to tweak our collective imagination so strongly that millions have jumped in to participate in just a few short days.
Some background, if you aren’t caught up: Twitch Plays Pokemon is a live stream of the original oldschool black and white Pokemon, modded to be controlled by the Twitch.TV community chat itself. Typing Left or Right, A or B, and so-on actually carries out those commands in-game. All of the typed commands are registered in-game, to the best the clunky old Pokemon software is able to keep up.
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