By now many of you have probably heard about the corpse that “YouTube personality” Logan Paul (and crew) found, filmed and subsequently mocked in Japan. It was a terrible moment for social media and anyone who uses it because of how plainly it exposed the vapid and narcissistic depths to which it can sink and how far some people will go to attract viewers.
What you may be less familiar with is that during his time in Japan Logan Paul continued his antics with a video of playing “real-life Pokémon GO” on the streets of Tokyo. I won’t link directly to the video (if you watch it please do so on a mirror to deprive him of the views), but he harasses hapless Japanese passerbys in various ways. Walking into a sushi bar he throws the plush Pokéball at an unamused chef, runs into traffic dressed as Pokémon characters and even tries to get a rise out of a police officer.
Turns out, Logan Paul's trip to Japan was problematic for many reasons 😡 pic.twitter.com/yhj2BYgk4G
— YouTuber News by PopBuzz (@YouTuberNews) January 5, 2018
This has now gained traction in various Japanese outlets and while the general understanding seems to be that he is a crazy YouTuber, it was not a good impression of Westerners—and certainly not for those of us who actually like the Pokémon franchise. If you want to visit Japan in the future (and I recommend it, great country!) it is particularly important that Japanese people see us as generally respectful and willing to learn. Therefore I think we all have a small duty to pushback online against this sort of repugnant behavior.
We should recognize as a fandom that this sort of behavior is not acceptable and anyone masquerading around in Pokémon costumes and harassing people is not something the Pokémon community condones. And that stand whether or not it’s Logan Paul. If you want to take action there’s a petition to get him removed from YouTube as well.
Here’s to making 2018 a better year.
Yall are playing Black/White, so I decided to finish my B2 playthrough. My team: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/dbefee15d845a5f3e8599a48214bf6dab89a04fe3d00c838a72adee9f2e4b9a0.jpg
Creative nicknames
I wish that Beheeyem advised you to get these Pkms better nicknames 😛
thanks…
Have you enjoyed using this team?
It’s allright, pretty fun to use.
Seems like a fun team. How have you enjoyed using Audino?
Attract and Secret Power are fun to use on her
Swanna I would have as a HM user but never had it as an actual battling team member, is it good?
yeah, pretty good
Finally changed up the name of that one edgy fakemon I had.
Flagrahan rolls off the tongue decently and it’s more descriptive of what the hell the mon is
Conflagration- Dullahan
What is that mon?
OMGGGGGGGG DRAGON BALL SUPER WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MEEEEE
I just wanna know how it’s all gonna end – especially seeing as there’s only like 9 minutes left (although we all know how it’s gonna end and who’s gonna be victorious)
I wanna know whats gonna happen with Vegeta man. I hope he gets UI but knowing Toriyama doesnt particularly like Vegeta, i doubt it,
End of the day, Goku will steal the spotlight anyway, as always
Goku is the main character, of course he will.
Vegeta is a main character too
Yes but the series is mostly about Goku, he was there from the beginning after all. There was a point where it was meant to shift to being about Goten iirc from the Buu arc but it didn’t happen.
Genuinely havent even seen Goten yet in Super (i missed a few episodes tho) GT isnt even canon anymore lol
I know that, Buu is Z not GT though, he was also barely in GT.
Team Update for me
No Nacrene City Badge yet, but I caught Bubbles the Tympole. Oh and Ears the Audino, but she’s boxed up
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3ee7375a627c1a77489d53d606aa6fe2e3fd7a77355ab6890cb64bb77a0882b1.jpg
Oh yeah Tepig evolves at level 18. You keeping most of these on your team?
I might switch Pupper and Moon, but the rest most likely will stay (Unless I find a better Electric type)
Well there’s Eelektross and Galvantula you could find more useful.
I might switch to Galvantula
And I also might switch Moon for Elgyem later on (Always wanted to use it, but then again I’ve never used a lot of Unova Pokémon)
And I also might use Escaviler or Accelgor in place of Pupper if I can get White2 to help me out
Hmm, you would then have 2 Bug types don’t forget.
Oh and Ginger I’ve decided I’m going to wait till at least level 22 or 25 to evolve because at one of those levels it learns Seed Bomb
Good idea. What nature is she? A physical or mixed set could work, you’ll likely want to teach her Rock Slide.
so does everyone have Unova fever or something?
I think so
I also wanted to have a more memorable team from BW1
3rd best region just had a crappy anime
What annoys me most is how many great Pokemon from the region may never get to have another major appearance in the anime, so they are stuck with whatever bad episode they were in to showcase them.
Maractus is a prime example of this
Yeah I saw its’ episode, I did not enjoy it.
https://twitter.com/QuajutsuLarry/status/949498962469416960
https://twitter.com/QuajutsuLarry/status/949841400216027140
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