Know What Else Is Trending? #PokemonGoAway

LINCOLN SQUARE — Don't know a Pikachu from a Peekaboo — and, more importantly, don't care?

This hashtag's for you: #PokemonGoAway.

Let's have a meet-up. Say, 2 p.m. Sunday, at The Bean?

We can all stare at our blank phones and yell out things like "I just captured Venonat!" — or whatever the lingo is. Then we can kick back and watch the thousands of people gathered at the same location for the Pokemon Go meet-up lose what's left of their minds. It'll be a hoot.

Kidding, not kidding.

Listen, I've got nothing against Millennials reliving a part of their childhood. It's sweet that they're so attached to a cast of video game characters/playing cards. (That's what Pokemon is, right?)

I just don't see why the rest of us have to care.

There's so much hype around the Pokemon Go app — of which this media outlet is as guilty as everyone else — ignoring it feels tantamount to committing pop culture suicide. If I don't play — and I really, really need to fold the load of laundry that's been sitting in the dryer since Sunday, instead — will the cool kids ever talk to me again?

Mercifully, the same social media being used by Poke-philes to trumpet their fandom is also home to a healthy community of contrarians.

I thought, when I logged onto Twitter this morning, that I was alone in the world. But lo, I typed #PokemonGoAway and discovered my tribe. 

If I see one more post about PokemonGO..........I'll just get on with life.

But I'll be really irritated!😡 #PokemonGO #PokemonGOaway

— Theresa Beach (@treebeach) July 12, 2016

(Oh Theresa, I don't know who you are, but I think I love you. Call me. Cause I'm not on Tinder.)

off to take my walk and laugh hard at adults wandering aimlessly with their iphones #pokemongoaway

— ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ™ (@MetsFanInPhilly) July 12, 2016

Is there an app where I can use my phone to collect people who collect pokemon and put them in jail? #PokemonGoAway

— KBNOLADC (@katedietzenb) July 12, 2016

Because we needed another game/app on our phones to make us more anti-social outdoors #pokemongoaway

— Dylan Haggart (@Haggart9) July 12, 2016

(Dylan and Katie, you two crazy curmudgeons seem made for each other!)

Two strangers running with their smartphones through the park, yelling at each other. THE end of Netflix & Chill? #PokemonGoAway

— Anna-Lena Janzen (@annalemona) July 12, 2016

So I watched a girl jump out of her car at a red light to catch a Pokemon #PokemonGOAWAY

— ℜäץ✞ (@AlexxaRayy) July 12, 2016

Chase #Pokemon? I don't even chase my whiskey... #PokemonGOAway #INeedADrink

— Jessi Jackson (@JessiCorey) July 12, 2016

I just strangled a Pokemon and it felt good. #pokemonGOAWAY

— Kevin Cristi (@kevin_cristi) July 12, 2016

(Sorry Theresa, I'm in love with Kevin now.)

Perhaps my new best friend in the whole wide Twitter-verse said it best:

We get it, you're an adult that's playing Pokemon again, now stop telling everyone about it. #PokemonGoAway

— Ian Stevens (@Old_man_stevens) July 12, 2016

Take comfort in one another, Pokemon refusniks. It'll all be over soon. Remember when standing in line for "Hamilton" tix was all the rage? No? Exactly.

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