Twitch Plays Pokémon “changed Twitch forever” in that way, as Twitch Studios director Marcus “djWHEAT” Graham put it this morning in honor of the iconic stream’s fifth birthday. So instead, the stream’s host allowed the group to argue in favor of anarchy or democracy, two play styles that would have their own dramatic impacts on the stream’s interactivity. After more and more people tuned in, the whole “yell which buttons the bot should press” thing didn’t quite work anymore. It soon spawned memes (praise Helix), and viewers even helped to evolve the bot’s functionality. It was an event stream unlike most others on Twitch - think something rare and akin to Ninja playing Fortnite with Drake live - and Twitch Plays Pokémon ran it on an aggressively daily basis. Twitch Plays Pokémon demanded frequent check-ins and hours of participation from viewers. Thousands overran the chat with simplistic orders of button inputs in the hopes of getting this bot to capture, name, battle, and heal Pokémon. Chaos of the most entertaining order broke out. The pitch: A Twitch bot would play and complete Pokémon Red, controlled entirely by viewers who ordered the bot to press certain buttons by typing commands in the live chat. 12, 2014, Twitch Plays Pokémon began with a strange but simple premise.
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