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).
The article explains that in a dream sequence in the film, Pikachu speaks like a human.
Spread
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).
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).
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[3] Twitter – @J_Rosenfield
[4] Twitter – @Polygon Response
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