Pokemon : The demise of a fad

[BlueJay28]

Pokémon...
The Supercharged spaced out, Animal-like fictional beings with capabilities found nowhere in reality, and with only one animal species that ever existed on planet earth having ONE capability that's anything at all like it..
the Electric eel...

Few fads have had as much marketing impact as the fairly short lived Pokémon originating in Japan.

These are some facts about Pokémon.

To generate a fad like Pokémon, you need a really vivid imagination.. an artistic culture capable of thinking of producing Anime cartoons.
It most likely pays to come from a martial arts culture, for its thought process that goes into Pokémon, judging by observation.

But it cannot survive here, and didn't survive here either.

For one thing, it had only a marketing impact on Early to Mid Generation Y, it failed to connect with late Generation Y, or our kids, or Generation X's younger children.

Our culture doesn't support such a style of Animation.

The violence pattern doesn't resonate with us.

And its also a pretty corny, far fetched cartoon and makes for a pretty useless marketing pyramid scheme that nobody BUT the artist could conceivably benefit anything whatsoever from... period.
Its a total waste of money.

And if it wasn't such a marketing success in its hayday... its age appropriacy is around 6 months to 5 years old.

And its really unfortunate for the development of Generation Y's social skills and reputation as adults, that pokemon was such a marketing behemoth.

So that's how and why it died off.

 

[Judicial review]

Do you have Asperger syndrome? This is the ONLY way any of this makes sense.

 

[BlueJay28]

Do you have Asperger syndrome? This is the ONLY way any of this makes sense.

Do you have an intelligence problem or an inability to read English ?
because that is the only way it doesn't make any sense.

so fuck you.
If you don't like the thread, too stupid to understand anything except for ghettoese, don't read it.

 

[BlueJay28]

Do you have Asperger syndrome? This is the ONLY way any of this makes sense.

When you graduate from school, and have more to show for your time there than just some piece of paper..
Come back to my threads...

Until then, go fuck yourself.

 

[BlueJay28]

Do you have Asperger syndrome? This is the ONLY way any of this makes sense.

Columbus Ohio... that says a whole lot as to why you're too stupid to read.
Shove that "oh im so poor, that's why I'm a monster" environment the fuck up your ass..
Because I don't give a fuck about you.

 

[Auld Phart]

Spend much time in Columbus Ohio?

 

[waltky]

A small Sydney suburban park off limits to Pokemon Go players after chaos...

Park removed from ‘Pokemon Go’ after chaos
Wed, Aug 03, 2016 - A small Sydney suburban park that attracted thousands of Pokemon Go players, causing the grassy spot to turn to mud, has disappeared from the popular mobile game after complaints of chaos.

The backlash in the Sydney suburb of Rhodes is the latest battle between avid players of the augmented-reality game, which has been a huge hit since it was rolled out last month, and authorities unhappy with the crowds it can attract. “Weekends, particularly at night, there were up to a 1,000, 1,500 people in the park,” City of Canada Bay Council Deputy Mayor Helen McCaffrey said. “The grass is no longer there and residents after three-and-a-half weeks were just over it,” she said of Peg Paterson Park, which has a playground and is surrounded by tall apartment buildings. “When a rare Pokemon was caught, there would be a cheer and cars would honk as the traffic was becoming horrific. I spoke to somebody a couple of days ago who was coming in from Penrith [45km away] to play,” she added.

Dozens of people gather to play Pokemon Go in front of the Sydney Opera House in Australia​

The council encouraged residents to complain directly to the game’s developer, US-based software company Niantic, to ask for the park to be deleted from the game after they complained of “complete chaos” and rubbish being dumped. “All 3 pokestops removed. Not a single soul left in the park. Not one,” wrote a Facebook user late on Monday, while another added: “For the people still convinced that Rhodes is still the hot spot ... Let it go, mourn the loss.... It’s dead! Gone!”

The game — which has the tagline “catch ’em all” — allows players to chase virtual cartoon character monsters with their smartphones, with Peg Paterson Park particularly popular due to the regular appearance of a rare Pokemon. While Pokemon Go has been praised as a fun way to get people outdoors, it has also attracted safety warnings about not walking into oncoming traffic, straying into restricted areas or becoming a victim of crime. The app by Niantic has now been launched in more than 40 nations, including the US, Japan and much of Europe. It has been downloaded more than 75 million times.

Park removed from ‘Pokemon Go’ after chaos - Taipei Times

See also:

New York to bar sex offenders from ‘Pokemon Go’
Wed, Aug 03, 2016 - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday directed state authorities to prevent about 3,000 registered sex offenders on parole from playing Pokemon Go in an effort to safeguard children who play.

The state’s Department of Corrections and Community Services is making that a condition of supervised release from state prison for all sex offenders. State officials recommended that county probation offices adopt the same policy. “As technology evolves, we must ensure these advances don’t become new avenues for dangerous predators to prey on new victims,” Cuomo said. The governor’s office said it was not aware of any actual incident yet, but the potential is there.

The Democratic governor has also sent a letter to software developer Niantic requesting help prohibiting sexual predators from playing the online game, where players roam through the physical world searching for virtual Pokemon creatures. Niantic did not reply to requests for comment.

New York law requires registered sex offenders to keep home addresses, e-mail accounts, screen names and other Internet identifiers with the Division of Criminal Justice Services, which maintains the publicly accessible online registry. The division also shares that information with about 40 social media businesses and has contacted Niantic in an effort to work with that company, spokeswoman Janine Kava said. The division has sent about 52,000 records related to 18,544 sex offenders since 2008 that have been used to remove names from social media sites, according to the governor’s office.

State Senator Jeff Klein, a Democrat who last week raised similar concerns, said New York already prohibits high-level offenders on parole from using social media. He proposed requiring game manufacturers take steps to ensure the virtual Pokemon creatures do not pop up within 30m of offenders’ homes, saying visits to 100 registered offenders’ residences showed Pokemon materialized in front of them 57 percent of the time. Klein said the only actual case he knew of was in Greenfield, Indiana, where a probation officer saw a 42-year-old sex offender playing the game with a 16-year-old boy on the county courthouse lawn last month. The man, on probation and prohibited from contact with minors, was arrested.

New York to bar sex offenders from ‘Pokemon Go’ - Taipei Times