More than a million gamers worked together through the social media gaming site Twitch to conquer a game of Pokémon.
Taking 16 days to complete, the "Twitch Plays Pokémon" game was a "social experiment" of sorts where the 1.16 million players tried to control Pokémon as a group, according to BBC News.
While the game can be easily beaten by your average player, the effect of one million people shouting out different commands simultaneously had something of a "monkey-typewriter-Shakespeare" effect, The Verge reported.
Twitch's live-streaming platform lets players enter the original game's eight commands by typing in the chat feature, BBC News said.
Guiding the main character, Red, the players entered more than 122 million commands and put in more than a billion minutes of viewing time, according to statistics released by Twitch.
To help guide the players in some fashion, two different playing modes were used during the 16.3 days of Twitch Plays Pokémon.
Gamers could navigate with the anarchy mode or democracy mode, depending on which gaming style received more votes. Throughout the game, players switched between the two.
When in anarchy mode, all commands were immediately applied to Twitch Plays Pokémon, while democracy mode meant that the command entered the highest number of times in a 30-second period would be selected.
The game's channel on Twitch had more than 36 million views by around nine million people, peaking at 121,000 viewers at the same time.
The Twitch blog post called the game "the biggest cultural phenomenon" to come from the site so far and praised the "passionate and absolutely preposterous community" of gamers.
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