Memes / Twitch Plays Pokémon: Season 3

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Season 3

Twitch Plays Pokémon Crystal Anniversary

• Waiting! ^Explanation  One of the additions to this ROM hack is that an external "Advanced AI" program is utilized, which decides the CPU's moves in place of the original game's AI. This is accomplished by modifying the game to treat all battles as multiplayer battles, the external AI acting as the linked player. Consequently the game was frequently slowed down or sometimes even stopped waiting for the AI commands early on in the run.
  • R-r-r-remix ^Explanation  Early in the run, this feature caused the music to stutter while waiting for the AI program. This was soon resolved.
• Pay for Democracy ^Explanation Streamer set Democracy to only activate with a 90% vote during this run, which chat argued was unreasonably high. Though the vote reached over 85% several times, for the chat it seemed it could only be activated when stream refreshes caused erroneous counting. One of the first such instances is said to have come when user Wiz Kitty, known for making very generous donations to the stream, made one such donation. Reportedly Streamer has alerts for such donations and it brought his attention to the stream.
• Military Mode ^Explanation  Also added to this hack was an input method called "Military Mode" which required the chat to enter commands like Move 4, Item 5 or Switch 3 to choose a specific command in battles, bypassing the original game's battle UI entirely. Chat quickly became concerned that it would make the game easier to troll. It was added to balance against the external "Advanced AI" (see below).
• ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ PRAISE OLDEN ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ ^Explanation A strange glitch turned the screen into a bunch of gibberish with one coherent word, "OLDEN," repeated several times.◊ This doesn't seem to correspond to anything in the game, but that didn't stop chat from praising "Olden" as if he/she were the new Helix, saying we need to fight whoever Olden is, and various other things.
  • OLDEN ROD, OLDEN EGG, OLDENROD CITY ^Explanation The Old Rod, Odd Egg, and Goldenrod City, respectively. Pretty much anything that sounded sort of like "Olden" got this treatment.
  • OLDEN GIRL WutFace ^Explanation While grinding on Victory Road, the hero encountered a glitched female trainer as a result of a botched ROM update. Her battle sprite was random noise, much like the original Missingno, and she seemed to have a full level 100 team of random mons with random movesets, including a Gastly with Extremespeed and Tackle, and a Golbat with Rollout. Chat immediately decided she must be the legendary "Olden." Not surprisingly, she won, and the game was quickly updated again, properly this time, so they couldn't fight her again. There's also an unrelated girl with a glitched overworld sprite in the National Park that gets labeled this.
• Azure BibleThump ^Explanation  This ROM hack starts out as remake of Pokemon Red on the Crystal engine (with some further modifications). Eventually chat hits a major plot deviation from the original Red storyline when the S.S. Anne is hijacked by Team Rocket and crashes. The protagonist's first rival, Azure, goes missing and chat almost immediately conclude that she is dead in the sinking. (We later find out she got off the boat before it left, and is now league champion.)
  • Burglar Simon ^Explanation During the Team Rocket mutiny, a green-haired person steals the player's Kanto badges. Later on, we see him again upon entering Bugsy's gym. He is Burglar Simon, of the "I wonder where my partner went" meme from the first season, and he has made more appearances than either of the game's actual rivals. Chat often screams at him to return our badges when we meet him, but he never has.
• JOEY TriHard ^Explanation  This ROM hack utilizes a faster real-time clock. As a result, after registering Youngster Joey he began spamming the chat with messages about his Rattata even more frequently than usual, sometimes not even a minute apart. Like the NEWS meme from Pokemon Colosseum/XD, chat quickly started to keep track. After 85 calls, they deleted Joey's number. Later, the call rate was fixed.
• BEZT ^Explanation  After reaching Johto, the player receives one of the Johto starters. The chat selected Cyndaquil and named it "Z", and commonly called it "Bezt" as a callback to the Vietnamese Crystal playthrough. However, Z was soon released.
  • Hiker Anthony ^Explanation The first opponent trainer the chat found who had a Cyndaquil was Anthony, which the chat assumed was the rescued Z.
• KAPOW Pineco ^Explanation Chat finds another major progress roadblock with the Headbutt move. Chat is frequently shaking trees with the move, and while rare in the original game, in this hack the trees commonly hide Pinecos who know the move Self-Destruct. The team is frequently defeated by this.
  • KAPOW Snake ^Explanation Wild Onix also had Selfdestruct... which is impossible in non-hacked games.
• LEE ^Explanation Chat continues its fascination with the MingLee emote, using it for almost any word ending in "ly".
• "Advanced" AI TriHard ^Explanation The romhack included a custom AI for enemy trainers—touted as "advanced" compared to the original—which was sometimes impressively smart, but would often do amazingly stupid things, like repeatedly using healing moves while at full health. Chat made sarcastic comments about its intelligence and advanced-ness whenever it did something dumb.
• Teru-Sama ^Explanation When Omanyte was revived from its fossil, it was holding a Teru-sama, a glitch item. This was probably just a programming mistake, but chat was fascinated by it anyway, especially since the item managed to outlive the Omanyte it was found on.
• Resisting the voices ^Explanation The first few days where filled with technical problems, including inputs regularly not working. Chat liked to think Evan was the first host who could tune them out to rest a moment.
• FOX u^Explanation During a grinding session, the chat deposited Vaporeon into the PC. The chat caught another Eevee that they named "FOX,/!!!)u" or FOX and evolved it into Jolteon. The weakest member of that team at that time, some chat members became determined to faint it as much as possible.
• ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ PRAISE AMBER ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ ^Explanation Much in the same way the Helix Fossil and "Lord Helix" served as the god and Big Good of the original Red run, the Old Amber and the resulting Aerodactyl often called "Lord Amber" became one for Evan's roster. This noticeably kicked up during the final Elite Four run, in which Lord Amber was instrumental in the team's victory and took on the champion's entire roster by himself.
• Lady Jasmine VoHiYo ^Explanation The user Melia_antiqua is a huge fan of Jasmine, often praising her in chat using the chibi VoHiYo emote. Other users took notice, and soon everyone else began to use VoHiYo whenever mentioning Jasmine.
• HYPER MEME ^Explanation A phrase associated with the move Hyper Beam, formerly carried by Amber and now by Kenya. As you can tell from this page, memes are very popular, so the mob easily made the connection between the rhyming words "meme" and "beam."
• Night Crew ^Explanation Based on the time zones in the Americas. Chat argued it was more productive during the hours in which most Americans are asleep. Often getting tried of fighting trolls more active during the American daylight hours, chat would often relegate progression tasks to "night crew".
• Consult Game Boy Printer Manual ^Explanation The Print error screen (in the Pokedex) from season 1 returns, and so does its catchy tune.
• #FanficHour OneHand ^Explanation During Day 24, while the chat was just wandering around trying to catch Pokèmon, people started writing fanfics in the chat, with the majority being naughty fanfics about the staff, the chat leaders, and the users themselves. It actually lasted for longer than an hour.

Twitch Plays Pokemon Brown

• #BoxTheBee ^Explanation  One of the primary mons of the run is a Beedrill that, given its infamous status as a Com Mon, spends most of its time on the team playing cannon fodder in battles. As a result, a good portion of the chat wants it boxed to make room for a party member that can actually do something in battle.
  • #KeepTheBee / #BeeKeepers ^Explanation  Used by those who want to keep Beedrill since it's been on the team from the start.
• Let's face it, we need Democracy ^Explanation During this run, a certain member of the Mob was spamming this phrase with the intention of making everyone salty. The same member also spammed it here.
• Red/Jared... TriHard ^Explanation The first two members of the Elite Four during this run have very similar names and have never won against Paul.
• How do we have a Sylveon? Kappa ^Explanation This run used a special modified version of a generation II game that included some later Pokémon as well. Some members of the Mob got confused, and soon people were spamming it sarcastically.
• GUYS WE NEED TO VISIT MOM ^Explanation There was often accidental use of the HM Fly to get back to the first town. Jokes abounded about Paul being a Mama's Boy.
• Lady Luck VoHiYo ^Explanation People claimed that the slot machine used later in the run was named Lady Luck.
  • Paul x Lady Luck OTP

Twitch Plays Randomized Platinum

• Drifloon evolves at level 30 ^Explanation As routine, chat argued over when Drifloon evolves to confuse bad trolls. In this case, the debate went out of hand as some members vandalized Bulbapedia with misinformation. Chat later needed a reminder to use good etiquette and keep the memes to dedicated pages.
• Trolls play Pokemon ^Explanation While all the runs have had their fair share of trolls, this run is rather infamous for the sheer amount of trolls taking up the stream. Even in the first few days, the mob had ended up boxing their entire team three-five times because of trolls, and PC wars were rampant. On top of that, the mob hadn't even evolved a Pokemon because of constant B trolls, with all of the evolved Pokemon they caught already being in their final stages. Combined with the wiki vandalization above, people started believing that the number of trolls greatly outway the regs of this run.
• Touch Shinx ^Explanation People in chat are particularly fond of touching the Shinx icon in the Pokétch's team list function, sometimes to the point where you'd hear its cry every other second.
• Gass type ^Explanation At one point the stream overlay was updated to show the enemy's Type. Grass was initially misspelled "gass", which chat found very amusing, especially as the previous hack they played included a "gas" Type.
• Water Stone ^Explanation The chat had planned to random-evo Shellder at one point, they had kept looking to no avail, Shellder ended up getting boxed and ever since the Mob has been hunting for a Water Stone, hyping every itemball to contain a Water Stone.
• Twitch has taken the "Shiny Minun" meme too far. ^Explanation By sheer coincidence, Democracy kicked in just as the mob encountered an actual Shiny Plusle. Since Plusle's shiny coloration is just a slightly darker version of its normal coloration, viewers who missed the sparkle at the beginning of the fight were unconvinced that it was actually a shiny. Furthermore, the Mob had been spamming run coordinates, so had Democracy not activated when it did, they almost inevitably would have run away from it.
• Evolve Pony! ^Explanation Possibly as a counterpart to the "Keep Shinx Cute" meme of the original, chat has been unable to evolve Ponyta into a Kingler, due to a belief that Ponyta's absurdly high randomized stats would be lost upon becoming Kingler. After the chat discovered that Kingler was a Dragon-type, the "evolve Ponyta" faction gradually grew bigger until chat finally got Ponyta to evolve after the Elite Four. The evolution did not necessarily strengthen or weaken Ponyta, but changed it from a specially-oriented Glass Cannon into a physically-oriented Stone Wall, rendering its old moveset largely useless.
• PMSTwin *insert passive-aggressive comment here* ^Explanation  When Cynthia blocked the entrance to Turnback Cave, chat began to interpret Cynthia as salty and passive-aggressive. Comments include Cynthia blocking the way to Turnback Cave, complaining about PP wasting his Master Ball on a Chingling, PP failing to catch Giratina, and threats to destroy PP’s team at the Pokémon League.

Twitch Plays Pokemon Prism

• Consult token ^Explanation The mob found a hidden gold token on the floor of a cave, shortly after getting the starter. This became the new item of worship, especially when it turned out to be un-tossable.
• #MakeCyanCyanAgain ^Explanation When the mob discovered the boutique would let them adjust their protagonist's color to match her name—Cyan—doing so became top priority. Most of the memes were twists on "Make America Great Again."
• Minecraft Version PunchTrees SSSsss ^Explanation The game turned out to have lots of caves early on, a mining-with-a-pickaxe mechanic, and even a minecart. References to Minecraft, and overuse of Twitch's Minecraft emotes, were inevitable.
• Power Rangers ^Explanation One of the early quests involved defeating 5 "Palette Patrollers," who were Color-Coded for Your Convenience and wore Power-Ranger-esque spacesuits.
• NEWDEN WutFace ^Explanation While the "zombie bunny" incident occurred, a random person in chat suggested that the chat move on from OLDEN and start a new meme, NEWDEN. NEWDEN became a recurring meme in the chat, especially used in response to Revo's dislike of the OLDEN meme.
• We are scientists! ^Explanation This helpful note was found on a sign outside a laboratory.
• MYLES THE GREAT ^Explanation A Large Ham NPC with a huge ego.
• EQ4 ^Explanation The Naljo Elite Four (commonly abbreviated E4) has quite a fondness the move Earthquake, which the team had a significant weakness to.
• BOULDEN WutFace ^Explanation While mining for items, a boulder inexplicably pushed itself onto the text box, freezing the game. Since "Olden" was a longstanding meme for any sort of glitch, it was declared "Boulden" (Boulder + Olden).
• Liquidate! BabyRage / Rare badges for rare people ^Explanation Continuation of the Bot Badge meme from PBR 2.0. This was the first opportunity for the chat to win Badges beyond the original 150 Pokemon (that are available in Pinball) and chat was upset that the newer badges were frequently won by casual or lurker viewers, demanding a "liquidation" as bots had sometimes done with their badges.
• Eight-Nine years of development MingLee ^Explanation Whenever the game glitches or crashes, the chat likes to poke fun at how there are still a number of Game Breaking Bugs still in the game despite its long development time.
• How did we get a shiny Y4? ^Explanation Another question that got frequently asked by latecomers. The chat used their Shiny Ball to catch a Koffing, but it glitched. It turned Y4, their Azumaril, shiny but also changed its gender from female to male and switched its ability. The devs later partially reverted the change, restoring Y4's gender and ability but keeping the shininess.
• War crimes WutFace ^Explanation Prism has some new "Gas-type" moves that are literally WW1-era chemical weapons—Nerve Gas, Mustard Gas, and Lewisite.

Twitch Plays Pokemon Sun

• Make Alola Great Again! ^Explanation  The new Gen VII Pokémon Yungoos somewhat resembles then President-Elect Donald Trump, leading to many Trump-related memes.
• Didney Worl! ^Explanation  The menu allows you to jump to the "Festival Plaza," a multiplayer location largely useless to Twitch, from almost anywhere. As soon as trolls figured this out, they began spamming the commands to get there, causing very frequent unnecessary visits. The "plaza" has a Disneyland-esque castle, so the old "Didney Worl" meme was revived.
  • Jebaited ^Explanation  An emote depicting a man looking upwards and smiling sarcastically, this emote began to be associated with the Festival Plaza after a few prominent users spammed it in response to Festival Plaza visits.
• RURURU OhMyDog ^Explanation  One of the Pokémon you can ride on in the Ride Pager is Stoutland. But, while pressing the B button, it makes a sound that sounds like, "RURURU!" So, people started spamming B while riding Stoutland, spamming the sound over and over again.
  • ERROR / ERRAK MrDestructoid ^Explanation  It's similar to the RURURU sound from Stoutland, but this time, one of the other noises, which is from this time Mudsdale, sounds like either ERROR or ERRAK.
• The Party/Box mechanic ^Explanation  The Pokémon Sun run was infamous for introducing a mechanic, called the Party/Box mechanic. If your team was full but caught a Pokémon anyways, you could replace a Pokémon in your team without going to the PC. This caused many PC wars and accidental deposits of good Pokémon, even depositing our starter in the first few hours.
• KevinTurtle *insert Team Skull text here* ^Explanation  Since Team Skull are supposed to be like thugs or gangsters, the Twitch emote that came the closest to those two stereotypes was KevinTurtle.
• Losermeme ^Explanation Lusamine has questionable AI, often commanding her Mismagius and Bewear to use Pain Split even when it would be detrimental.
• TriHau TriHard ^Explanation Hau is a relatively easy rival, so any time he does something questionable in battle, people comment on it.
• TriHala TriHard ^Explanation As the easiest Elite Four member by far, Hala became the Bruno equivalent of the run. The fact that he sometimes did things such as using High Jump Kick on a Pokémon in the air didn't help his reputation.
• Champion is X ^Explanation  While fighting/getting beaten by the Elite Four the chat erupted into sarcastic speculations about what character would be the Champion. It quickly spiraled into more and more impossible suggested champions(Including Type: Null, Lillie and even a stop sign)
• Rotom senpai Kreygasm ^Explanation  When the run was going on, people started to like it when the Rotom Pokédex talked, calling him Rotom Senpai.
• Thanks sturdy Kappa ^Explanation  In one attempt to beat the Elite 4 and Champion, we actually got all the way to the Champion, Professor Kukui. We got pretty far in the Champion battle, until it got to a 1v1 duel between our Fearow and his Magnezone. Fearow used Drill Peck on it, but, thanks to its Sturdy Ability, we weren't able to OHKO it, except Magnezone WAS able to on its own turn with its Thunderbolt, blacking us out. This incident is already becoming as popular as the First Battle of Giovanni from TPP Red, calling Kukui a cheater, also with him using 3 FULL RESTORES on his Snorlax.
• ᕦ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ᕤ FLEX RIOT ᕦ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ᕤ ^Explanation  During the Ultra Beast quest, while fighting a Buzzwole, the Mob took out their own Buzzwole and the inputs suddenly froze. Since Buzzwole's idle animation is flexing, everyone in chat started rioting, but this time, the donger is flexing.
• Clothing Wars/Disguised ^Explanation  During the main story and continuing on into the postgame, the Mob often changed clothes on 9'l and spent quite a bit of money on new looks. This was incorporated into one section of lore by claiming these were 9'l's "disguises" for his missions involving the Ultra Beasts.
• selfie time ^Explanation Usually, when we go into the trainer passport and take an avatar picture of ourselves, the chat says Selfie Time, since we're pretty much taking our own photo.

Twitch Plays Pokemon Waning Moon

• le toucan has arrived. ^Explanation An old Twitch meme recycled as soon as Devin's Trumbeak evolved into Toucannon.
• FunRun ^Explanation An emote associated with Hau, due to him having dark skin, a similar hairstyle, and a fun-loving personality.
• FailFish ^Explanation An emote associated with Gladion due to his edgy habit of covering half of his face with his hand.
• Jebaited ^Explanation Since Waning Moon is a gen 7 hack, the Festival Plaza and the memes from Sun surrounding it were recycled.
  • Watt Didney ^Explanation After the Didney Worl meme from the previous run ingrained itself into the chat's minds, they subsequently labeled Sophocles "Watt Didney."
  • JEBAITED WAS SPOKEN JEBAITED TOUCHSCREEN IS BROKEN JEBAITED DIDNEY'S DOORS OPEN JEBAITED BLOODTRAIL HEARTBROKEN ^Explanation  A Pasta that was spammed for a while in chat.
  • HALA OUTDATED TriHard KUKUI OVERRATED DansGame LONG TIME WE FAILED MingLee NON WE DIDNEY WORL jebaited ^Explanation  Spammed between attempts at the end and improved version of the elite four.
• #DuckSeason ^Explanation  A hashtag spammed by those who wanted to release/deposit Ducklett and replace it with the Leafeon it replaced. Later occasionally used when Swanna was performing well in battle.
• FABA TriHard/WutFace ^Explanation  It took the mob 28 straight attempts to beat the first battle against Faba, to the point that Faba is currently the one trainer the mob has lost the most times against. However in the second and post-game battle he was beaten rather easily, leading to chat considering him a real TriHard.
  • FABA ranking ^Explanation  The Wattson Ranking is a list over how many attempts/loses TPP has had against a specific Trainer. The ranking is named after Wattson, the electric gym leader from Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald, who took 23 attempts and several days to beat. Since FABA took 28 attempts, the mob started joking about renaming the ranking in honor of the new number one.
• Trump's impeachment/deportation ^Explanation Gumshoos, a Pokémon that resembles to Donald Trump, was removed from the party and replaced by Lunala on the day of his presidential inauguration. This led to jokes that Trump had been deported, impeached, or simply left the team to go to the White House to serve as president.
  • #PresidentNebby ^Explanation Since Lunala took Gumshoos position on the team, some took this as Nebby succeeding Trump as president.
• #𝓕𝓐𝓝𝓒𝓨 ^Explanation A hashtag that trended occasionally even though it was composed entirely of non-whitelisted characters. Often, people would get intrigued and copypaste it themselves, getting timed out for their trouble.
• #spheal #Spheal #SPHEAL ^Explanation Another hashtag dedicated to the Pokémon Spheal. The user RomanoffBlitzer is a huge fan of Spheal, often going out of his way to mention Spheal in chat. For some reason, other people followed suit, spamming variations of the #Spheal hashtag in chat.