People Flooded Central Park Last Night Looking For A Rare Pokemon
Yahoo- The above clip shows a herd of people rushing into Central Park, not to catch a murderer or escape a tragedy — something that’s happened a bit too much here recently. No, it has to do with Pokemon Go and the appearance of a rare Pokemon within New York’s famous park.
A Vaporeon, one of the rare evolutions for Eevee in the original game series, popped up within the park and Vimeo user Woodzys caught the mad dash on video. If you needed proof that Pokemon Go seems to be a phenomenon, you don’t have to look any further. You don’t typically see crowds like that unless it’s Black Friday or a protest. So the fact that a mobile game involving the capture of tiny critters inside of balls is causing this type of reaction is really saying something — whether that something is good or bad, I don’t know.
Jeeeesus Christ. I had heard all the reports on Pokemon Go. Raised Nintendo’s stock a billion points, has more users than Twitter, caused people to fall off cliffs and drive into ponds. But it’s a matter of just seeing the actual floods of humanity to realize how huge this game is. I mean don’t get me wrong, idiots in New York wait on lines that are blocks long for things like a cronut. But it’s still setting into my brain that this crowd formed because a Pokemon character was spotted. People leaving their cars while they are STILL RUNNING in the middle of a New York street. That’s wilder than any Beatles concerts or that Kanye pop up show. This video is what I imagine it would look like if the Victoria’s Secret Angels were sitting in Central Park with signs that said Free Blowjobs, not for a rare video game trinket. What a time to be alive indeed.