Ten years later, ‘Pokémon Go to the polls’ still haunts the internet
In the lead-up to a presidential election that would irrefutably transform American culture, Hillary Clinton took the stage at a rally in Virginia as she campaigned to become the first female president.
“We’re going to have a lot of jobs — jobs from building infrastructure to coding. Creating new apps,” she said. “I don’t know who created Pokémon Go, but I’m trying to figure out how we get them to have Pokémon Go to the polls.”
Ten years later, it is once again Election Day in the United States. Now, most app developers aren’t even writing their own code anymore, thanks to AI, and Pokémon Go has been sold to a company wholly owned by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. The only thing about that political moment that hasn’t changed is that “Pokémon Go to the polls” memes still crop up on every Election Day.
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