Twitch's Hive Mind Has a Favorite Pastime: Pokémon

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Twitch's Hive Mind Has a Favorite Pastime: Pokémon

Added: 18.02.2015 5:10 | 9 views | 0 comments

What started as a modded project is becoming something bigger as developers take note of fan obsessions. In February of 2014, North America shivered through its coldest winter in decades, and Australia sizzled through one of its hottest summers on record. It was a good time for the world to stay indoors, so maybe it was a touch of cabin fever that caused Twitch Plays Pokémon to blow up into an online phenomenon. Twitch Plays Pokémon is currently the name for player-driven Pokémon experiences on the Twitch.tv streaming service. But when people speak about Twitch Plays Pokémon, most of them are referring to the first social experiment that gathered millions of players into a Twitch channel and let them work through Game Freaks Pokémon Red using chat commands. On March 1, 2014 a little over two weeks following the channels inception the Internet watched as Red, powered by millions of conflicting voices, somehow managed to defeat the Elite Four and take his spot in the...