[m463]

Your story reminds me of working pre-pandemic, and going on an afternoon walk with a coworker. He was into pokemon go and he wanted to attend an event (raid?) before we walked. I followed him down the street where he stood at a certain deserted spot and waited. All of a sudden, people just started appearing, some from cars, some coming from between the bushes, some walking down the street.

the raid started, they all silently stared at their phones, and at some point they all looked up, looked around and walked away.

all mostly in complete silence.

who knew this was a precursor to more of the same, maybe throughout society.

[rangestransform]

IMO Pokémon go was the trendy app that actually bucked the trend of social media isolation, I talked to so many randoms that summer

[tonyedgecombe]

I recently read that the Pokémon franchise is more profitable than Star Wars.

I was astounded as I know very little about it.

[Ancalagon]

Not only that, Pokemon is the most profitable franchise of all time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_media...