Pokémon Trading Card Game Pockethas spawned many memes and ridiculous observations but one fan has gone the extra mile to make an extra-cursed meme. The newTCGapp digitizes the card game, letting fans open booster packs, collect cards, and battle other players. The meme in question hones in on this aspect of the game, depicting an absurd situation that gets more disturbing the closer the observer looks.
At first glance, the Reddit thread, created byAggravatingDay8392, seems to be a genuine request for help. Titled “I need a strategy quickly (70 secs left),” the pageasks for help in a battle against an opponent, who is “clearly a beginner.” The Redditor asks for some speedy assistance in coming up with a strategy to win the battle.
Upon actually looking at the image, it becomes apparent thatthe Redditor is extremely outmatched,with their Meowth, Pidgey and Caterpie up against Gardevoir and twopowerful gold Mewtwo ex cards, both ready to attack. The poster shares, “My initial strategy was to use my Pidgeot to swap his Mewtwo for one of his benched Pokemon, but if I do that he would use his other Mewtwo!” Looking closer at the image sends it even further into absurdity as it becomes apparent thatevery Pokémon’s face in the image is, for some reason, censored.
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Other fans chime in with their own ideas, andthey get progressively more ridiculous.AW038619gives theTCGversion of being told to ‘get good’, “Build a better deck.” Other ideas include using Caterpie’s “Find a Friend” skill to pull a Venusaur from the deck, pull cards from the future, or sub in a card fromYu-Gi-Oh,instead.FifthGenIsntPokemonchimes in with the most absurd suggestion, to simply “Uninstall the game from your opponent’s phone.”
Pokémon Faces In The Meme Are Pixellated “To Protect The Innocent,” Maybe
The Meme’s Creator Remains Mum On The Topic
The creator of the meme doesn’t address or even acknowledge the pixellated Pokémon faces in the image.The censorship even extends to theEevee and Eeveelutions pictureson the playmat. No one knows what the meme’s maker was thinking, but they have some guesses. The faces of the Pokémon are blurred “to protect the innocent,” suggestsGregamonster, in a comment thread which immediately turns into into a recitation of Jessie and James' Team Rocket trademark slogan.
Userotterspopshas another potential suggestion, pointing out that “There’s a practice in some countries to blur out crime scene photos especially at the scene of a murder.” Regardless of the reasoning,Patient_Catch7715has requested that some more decorum be shown in the future: “Mewoth feet showing. Please censor next time.“Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocketis out now worldwide and it’s worth pointing out that not every battle looks like a massacre.
