We don’t actually know much about Pokemon GO’s team captains, but it doesn’t matter. Players have run with the newly revealed team leader artwork, and are now creating all sorts of personality quirks, backstories and hilarious jokes.
Illustration credit: 200pi
Among the surge of reactions, you’ll notice a few common threads, such as:
- Candela is understood to be the hot one.
- Candela and Blanche may or may not be in a romantic rivalry.
- Candela and Blanche are basically babysitting, or acting as mums to Spark.
- People are latching on to Blanche’s non-binary appearance, with many memes referencing the classic Pokemon question of ‘are you a boy or girl?’
- Blanche is the cool and commanding one.
- Everyone is roasting Spark. Poor Spark.
- Spark is often depicted as the obnoxious one.
- Spark probably loves memes and isn’t very smart according to the internet. Uh, sorry Team Instinct.
- Somehow, though, Spark has become one of the most endearing of the three. He’s going through the Popplio effect.
Here’s how the internet is reacting to the new Pokemon GO leaders:
https://twitter.com/kersenwiek/status/757363681311203328
CANDELAAAA 🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/a1y8ZlbXVK
— CINNA☆ (@moecinna) July 25, 2016
spark: can we go get mcdonalds
candela: no blanche is cooking us a nice dinner at home
spark: *wipes tears* i hate this fukcin family— now at @syukashuu!! (@shukanchan) July 24, 2016
https://twitter.com/kyleenim/status/757344575971262464
https://twitter.com/vaanrose/status/757431423947071489
they chill together pic.twitter.com/HICtmTJpKy
— gwenn (@gwenndigo) July 25, 2016
WHAT TEAM pic.twitter.com/UWyrgVRaiW
— 🌨 Houdi ❄️ (@houdidesu) July 25, 2016
https://twitter.com/elloquench/status/757340349027061760
https://twitter.com/CapnPaddy/status/757355484550750213
https://twitter.com/notquitefrodo/status/757330859238133760
#TeamInstinct pic.twitter.com/syPmIp2vru
— Steve Kim (@Fobwashed) July 24, 2016
https://twitter.com/Nibellion/status/757340584545771520
hey team instinct people who feel bad rn
I defended Popplio in front of thousands of people
This too shall pass.but come get your boy tho
— austin walker (@austin_walker) July 24, 2016
https://twitter.com/pillowfort/status/757338261895380992
candela: is there a word that’s a mix between angry and sad?
blanche: malcontented, disgruntled, miserable, desolated
spark: smad— tessie (@batsugeemu) July 24, 2016
https://twitter.com/yuricrusader/status/757330876900356098
blanche is cool pic.twitter.com/bciBkZ19tx
— ling (@L1NG_) July 25, 2016
Pokemon nicknames
Candela: this is my Charizard inferno
Blanche: I refer to them by their proper names
Spark: this is donglord my jolteon— Cloud Strife Bottom Noises (@VaultedVagabond) July 24, 2016
Illustration credit: phanromantictrash
so I saw they finally revealed the pokemon GO leaders;;; #TeamMystic #TeamValor pic.twitter.com/mCyP0DLEAE
— lillian 🐻棕熊宇宙 (@clowncave) July 25, 2016
blanche: ppl come up to me & say
blanche: r u a boy or a girl?
blanche: & i always tell them the same thing;
blanche: how dare u speak 2 me— 🔞🩷💛🌸 BINI kou 🌸🩷💛 (@0vv0b) July 25, 2016
i have no self control pic.twitter.com/veE5hssxN7
— ✿mimi✿ Vibing! (@mimiblargh) July 25, 2016
https://twitter.com/ruryzuly/status/757348270574178304
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7 responses to “The Internet Reacts To Pokemon GO’s Team Leaders”
and people on tumblr have already started the death threats over this…
Turning fictional characters gay = 2015/2016 Fad of the Year
Its a more tasteful, less entertaining fad than the one before where they would draw 12 inch cocks on all the female characters and have them fuck.
Who says the internet doesnt mature huh?
Buddy, let me tell you about Star Trek fanfiction.
*Reading through article*
“Heh, those are some funny headcannons. Love it.”
*Suddenly references to MRA and Milo*
“WTF…?”
This is the world we live in… everything is political nowadays :/
I seriously wouldn’t mind it if it didn’t happen everywhere all the time!
If anyone else was unsure what “NB” meant, urbandictionary informs me it’s “non-binary”, as in, not male or female. Well there ya go.