50,000 people try to play a single Pokemon game at the same time.

The part I watched, they just kept going in and out of one building with a Clefairy for a few minutes. While people shouted in chat about killing Eevee or evolving it. Someone mentioned they released three pokemon??

That 20-40 second lag's gotta make things insanely worse. And I read that was with a forced waiting time before a user could enter anything again.
I also read that the start spamming was stopped, but the game still pulls the menu up every few seconds. Not sure why that is.

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Oh, god, they're on arrow floors

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Oh, god, they're on arrow floors

Still? I was there a few hours ago they stuck there.

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The Helix Fossil will set them free.

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ALMOST 100,000 PEOPLE.

WHAT.

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ALMOST 100,000 PEOPLE.WHAT.

Well Kaga every wounder what extreme multiple personality disorder was like?

That sums it up, just every personality gets a turn moving.

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Let's ask the magic Helix Fossil!

Oh magic Helix Fossil, help us in this battle!

"You can't use that right now!"

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I've been watching this develop for about two days now. The extremely rapid creation of inside jokes, subculture and counter-culture (Helix vs Dome, anarchy vs democracy) is fascinating. It's one of the most memetic projects I've ever seen.

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I've been watching this develop for about two days now. The extremely rapid creation of inside jokes, subculture and counter-culture (Helix vs Dome, anarchy vs democracy) is fascinating. It's one of the most memetic projects I've ever seen.

Quite.

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OH YE GODS OF CHAOS, TORMENT US NO MORE!

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I'm ready for it to quit. It's basically ddos-ing Twitch. Every other channel is suffering thanks to it.

How is it still going?

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good 20+k are trolls.

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I'm ready for it to quit. It's basically ddos-ing Twitch. Every other channel is suffering thanks to it.How is it still going?

Extreme popularity to the point that the first things you get when Googling "Twitch plays Pokemon" are shitloads of news sites talking about how 50k people are playing Pokemon.

I had to sift through those links until I found a news article with a Live feed directly from Twitch that I could go to.

They've got like 6 badges right now, and considering how Democracy keeps gaining control, I'd guess another two days or so will yield a conclusion, at least for the main game. I somehow doubt this thing will continue much longer after defeating the Rival. Pretty sure nobody will want to go through 15 hours each to catch enough Pokemon to gain access to Cerulean Cave and fight Mewtwo.