On July 6, Pokémon Go was launched and the population of the globe seemed to have gone crazy.
In a short time, Pokémon Go became a real phenomenon and played by everyone from Justin Bieber, Hillary Clinton, to young mothers and teenagers, all looking to get in on the action.
It didn't take long and both controversies and incidents hit, either with players who got into legal problems due to real physical aggressions during Pokémon hunting, trespassing on private places, deaths, etc.
Here are the strangest and most interesting things that have happened in the month since Pokémon Go was launched.
1.On July 8, just two days after the game was launched in the United States of America, the body of a teenager was found near a river. He was hunting Pokemon and inadvertently fell into the lake and drowned.
2. And some players ended up in some downright dangerous situations, such as the young people who crashed their car into a parked police car, because they were paying attention to the Pokemon GO app on their phone...
3... Or the guy who literally fell off a cliff, because he was not paying attention to where he stepped while playing.
4. But fortunately, these types of cases are in the minority, and among the players who love Pokémon Go is Hillary Clinton, who also made a joke on the electoral campaign trail.
I don't know who created Pokémon Go, But I'm trying to figure out how we get them to have 'Pokemon-Go-to the polls
5. And Justin Bieber was caught playing in the middle of Central Park in New York City.
6. Speaking of Central Park, this park turned into a mob scene in mid-July when Vaporeon, a rare and highly hunted pokemon, appeared in the middle of the night. 5000 players I was swarming to catch him.
7. Logan Paul took advantage of all the Pokemon GO madness, instigated people and shouted in the middle of New York that there is a rare Pokemon GO. He almost made a riot...
Here is the video clip posted by him on Twitter. https://twitter.com/LoganPaul/status/755855465213333504/video/1
8. Authorities have tried their best to keep people safe while playing, and local police departments have asked people not to break the law in the Pokemon Go rush. It got to the point where the Japanese authorities had to physically keep the players away from the danger zone around Fukushima.
9. The climax was reached when Nick Johnson became the first to claim that he had all 142 Pokémon available in the United States - which earned him a free, sponsored trip around the world to catch the remaining Pokémon available abroad.
10. Johnson's travels gained notoriety but also rivalry, so that Peter-Joey Pham, a financial worker on Wall Street, decided at the last second that he would fly to Sydney and try to beat Johnson to completing his collection of Pokemon. But eventually Pham gave up when his bike collided with a car in Sydney and he did some personal damage.
11. A guy from Los Angeles, Benny Affonso, quit his job to play Pokemon GO full time. His idea was to act almost like a club promoter, bringing people to local businesses who want more attention from Pokémon Go players.
12. Also, a big buzz was made when it turned out that a legendary Pokémon was accidentally released into the wild. A whole storm of controversy erupted, as the people who found the Articuno pokemon - a very rare bird that shouldn't even be in the game right now - were accused of forgery.
13. Silicon Valley CEOs Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is a Pokémon Go player, while Apple CEO Tim Cook has used the game to highlight the power of apps. Cook, in particular, has reason to love him: The game made an estimated $160 million in gross revenue, of which Apple would take 30%.
14. Not everyone loves the Pokémon Go phenomenon. Some government officials in Russia are convinced that the game is actually the work of foreign intelligence agencies, such as the CIA, sent to collect location data from citizens. That's why there is a Russian application called "Know. Moscow. photo",the Russian version of Pokemon GO, in which you can catch Russian historical figures.
15. But the craziest thing that happened was when Nintendo's stock suddenly dropped.
