On Friday, the world was calm, well in relative terms, despite the European Unions threats to implode following the Brexit vote, the United Kingdom's got a new Iron Lady, Australia's politically calamity slowly drawing to a close, Trump v Hillary providing angst to our US Brethren and entertainment for the rest of the world, the Middle East trying to tear itself apart and with a few notable exceptions anything south of the equator dithering into obscurity.
Imagine my surprise when we ventured to the farm on Saturday and disconnected from, notwithstanding the above, a relatively normal world to return less than 48hrs to a Pokemon Go Shit Storm. What in the actual......
One could understand pimply faced teenage boys with little or no prospect for immediate female attention, or other boys if that's their thing, sitting in a school canteen eagerly swapping their Staryu's for Doudou's in the ultimate race to find and train a Pikachu but it appears 2/3rds of the seemingly intelligent adult population has gone batshit crazy in less than a weekend.
Nintendo Co's stock up 20% on the news, their best on day move since 1983.
From the 10th of June to July 7th 30.5% of all desktop traffic to APKMirror came from searches with the word Pokemon in them. Traffic up to apkmirror.com by 3.4million visitors in less than 24hrs??
Pokemon Go Usage time more than double snapchats; teens have swapped the real thing for imaginary fluffy creatures; the mind boggles
Around 3% of the entire US Android user base are users of the app, in a few more days it will usurp Twitter!
Gasteroenterologist, Jonathan Wilcox, found a Pikachu lodged in a man's sigmoid colon?
Users turn up at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum chasing the little yellow bugger?
Has the world gone barking mad?
One really wonders what shenanigans is going on under the surface that us mere mortals aren't privy to!