For today's blog post, I will be talking about Twitch Plays Pokémon. Although Twitch Plays Pokémon is still going on to this day, it originally started in 2014 with the game Pokémon Red. Unfortunately, I missed out on playing it when it first started. However, I have read quite a bit about it. To start with, Twitch Plays Pokémon was originally created as a social experiment on the popular website Twitch.TV. It ended up gaining a huge following, with over a million people watching it and thousands of people all controlling the main character at once. This version of the game worked by letting the viewers of Twitch Plays Pokémon control the main character by inputting commands into the chat. This allowed the viewers to decide the fate of the game. However, with this many players for one Pokémon game there were bound to be some snags. There were Pokémon that were released, the main character walked around in circles and hit walls, and there were those players that hit down after a long time of trying to get up a cliff, just to have them jump back down. With all of those people playing the game, it ended up taking about 16 days for the game to be fully completed. Because of this, later Twitch Plays Pokémon games started using a voting tactic to avoid confusion. This still allowed players to input actions, but only the one with the most votes would be used.  Although the players didn't like being limited to a voting system, it did make it a bit less confusing to play the game.