Polygon's "Pikachu Does The Unthinkable" Tweet

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Polygon's "Pikachu Does The Unthinkable" Tweet refers to a clickbait tweet sent out by gaming website Polygon that reads "Pikachu does the unthinkable in Pokémon’s new movie, and it’s super weird." The tweet refers to something Pikachu does in the film Pokémon: I Choose You!. However, the open-ended nature of the tweet led people to joke about various unbelievable things Pikachu would do.

Origin

On November 7th, 2017, Polygon tweeted a link to an article about Pokemon: I Choose You! with the text "Pikachu does the unthinkable in Pokémon’s new movie, and it’s super weird." The tweet gained 36 retweets and 45 likes in four hours (shown below).

Polygon sends out an open ended tweet about what Pikachu does in the new Pokemon movie

The article explains that in a dream sequence in the film, Pikachu speaks like a human.

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Shortly after Polygon sent out the tweet, Twitter users quoted the tweet with jokes about what "unthinkable" thing Pikachu did. User @abbyiells^[2] was first, joking "pikachu kills and eats ash you heard it here first," gaining 4 retweets and 20 likes (shown below, left). Twitter user @J_Rosenfield^[3] tweeted "he executes an innocent man in cold blood," gaining six retweets and 23 likes (shown below, right).

user @abbyiells tweets out that Pikachu kills and eats Ash in the new movie

Tweet alluding to the horror of what Pikachu does in the next movie

After dozens more variations on the joke were submitted, Polygon^[4] admitted their mistake in a tweet which read "And that's why you never leave a tweet open ended" that gained 243 retweets and 656 likes (shown below).

polygon tweets out all the memes people made saying that this is why you should never tweet out an open ended tweet

Various Examples

Polygon's Pikachu destroys Donald Trump on his weekly news comedy show

Tweet joking that Pikachu committed tax fraud

Tweet joking that he is disappointing that Pikachu didn't kill anyone

Tweet joking that Pikachu takes up smoking in the new movie

Tweet joking that pikacho learns this one weird trick and doctors hate him

Tweet joking that Polygon's Pikachu deposited money in an offshore bank account

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External References

^[1] Twitter – Polygon

^[2] Twitter – abbiyells

^[3] Twitter – @J_Rosenfield

^[4] Twitter – @Polygon Response

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