Fun & Famous

5 REASONS WHY THE POKÉMON GO HYPE IS THE WORST

I wanted to avoid the topic all together. I figured it would all die down eventually like all hypes do. I refuse to take part in it. I don’t want to talk about it. I don’t even want to think anything about it. Long story short: I failed. Let me start off on a more positive note. There is only one thing I like about Pokémon GO. It’s getting kids outside again. Our generation, and the one underneath us, has gotten lazy and to be fair: Pokémon GO is getting everyone up on their feet.

Now back to the shitty factor. ‘Pokémon GO is being banned from terraces’, ‘Pokémon GO is ruining relationships’ and ‘The Pokémon GO app is dangerous’. Here’s just a small selection of news updates I have received this past week. The reality game in which Japanese figures in your phone show up and you’re able to capture them wherever in the world you are (you even get a sign if one of them is nearby) has everyone talking. You can try as much as you want to ignore it but why not figure out what it is and how it works. Well, our sales assistant and I gave it a shot (after it took us 45 minutes to figure out how to even download the app) and once it was installed on my iPhone, I spent half an hour running through our office throwing around Pokéballs and collecting fictional animals. So I think it’s safe to say I’m allowed to say that I think the entire thing is pathetic. There. I said it.

”Here’s just a small selection of news updates I have received this past week.”

This is why:

1. Downloading the app is rocket science. You need to make an Australian Apple ID. What we did is typed in some random address in Australia that we found through Google Maps (sorry for those of you who live in Lakey Street) and then faked a phone number (again, sorry if it happens to be yours). WHAT DO YOU MEAN A BURDEN? If the app is so hip, why can’t there be an easier way to download it?

2. Once you’ve gotten yourself into the holy system, you can personalize your own icon. But you don’t even have any proper clothes to pick from. Women have no other option than to wear hats. #byefelicia

3. When you hear stories about men ditching their pregnant wives in hospitals to go an run after Pikachu, then you know something’s not right.

4. Come on guys. I can’t be the only one thinking this is all so incredibly childish? Hadn’t we put an end to the Pokémon era a while ago? Like 2001 or so?

5. We’re already living in a virtual bubble and I really don’t think it’s going to improve if people are being triggered to run after Bulbasaur or Charmander.