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It began as an bizarre sociological experiment - getting thousands of people to control the same game of Pokemon Red via Twitch.tv chat. The original run took nearly 400 continuous hours of play and left the internet exhausted with memes and fan art and talk about what an insane idea this was. But then it continued - 24 hours after the completion of Pokemon Red, they powered forward with Pokemon Crystal version.
It was no longer a simple one and done experiment - it was much bigger than that. This is now an institution - with "Twitch Plays" being applied to other games, including The Legend of Zelda and Tetris and many others.
But coming back to the channel that started it all, they've finished Crystal version and are moving on to Generation 3 - Emerald version.
Although we tried to extensively cover the original run, we won't be tracking this too closely. This is no longer an event - it's going to be an ongoing thing that's here to stay. Still, it's worth checking in on every now and then to see what madness and new religions are being cooked up by thousands of people chaotically trying to ram their way through a videogame designed to be played by one person at a time.
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For the first time, Twitch Plays Pokemon is playing with a girl trainer. Her name is "A". You might think that's just because it's impossible for this many people controlling a game to get anything other than a short, random assortment of letters. You'd be wrong.
The "A" stands for "Anarchy." You see, A isn't your typical Pokemon trainer. She's dedicated herself to being an agent of chaos, to upending the status quo, to tearing apart the delicate balance of society. Appropriately, her starting Pokemon was Torchic. Because some trainers just want to watch the world burn.
Basically, we're playing as The Joker.
As you can see, Torchic's been named "__zyyxyy", or "Zexy" for short. An Abra, Poochenya, and Nincada were quickly added to the team as well (Nincada and Poochenya had no nickname, Abra was "apf uojkyy", or "Fap Junky", since even the brilliant minds of Twitch Plays Pokemon had a tough time making anything out of that nonsense).
Since this has been going on for about 40 hours already, a great deal has happened, including:
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Anyways, here's the stream. This is part of the fabric of the internet now.
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