The Smogon community's celebration of Pokemon's 20th anniversary was mainly delegated to The Flying Press and social media. Reason being that we have a really big in-game following outside of the forum, so we tried our best to connect those people with our creative media in order to hype up the game we all know and love. The success of this mini project (spearheaded by skylight, also Tikitik did like 6 art pieces in a row this week so mad props) was bolstered by the Pokemon game reveal in Friday's Direct. It was all real cute and real fun.
Here are some statistics from how well we did and how pumped for the new games everyone got. Sorry I didn't get this up yesterday, the actual day of the anniversary, had other things to do that unfortunately did not include playing Alpha Sapphire all fucking day like I wanted to. Oh well. Also everyone loves stats.
February 21 - 27, 2016
App. 40,000 more people than follow the page saw our content this week (normally around ~90-130k)
*just under half that number of people interacted with a post at some point during the week!
BKC and dice accrued similar activity on the announcements for their articles in which they discuss Pokemon and its affect on their lives since they've played it. They also were the most popular ones! You can read BKC's article here, and dice's article here. We also had great articles by Finchinator, Stathakis, Vinc2612, and Zebraiken! They read a bit like a diary if you start with Finchinator's entry, though I suggest ripping it out entirely because he's bad.
Oh yeah, and yesterday's panel discussion was pretty cool, and had some of the cutest art by Rocket Grunt (that probably represented what some of y'all were busy doing yesterday).
Our posts simply asking if the public is hype for Pokemon Sun and Pokemon Moon, and "who's ready for some nostalgia?" were the most popular posts in at least the past year or two, garnering 4,443 Reactions/Comments/Shares on the former and 5,409 Reactions/Comments/Shares on the latter. I can't find anything that even came close, except the Zygarde forme announcement post, but even that only accrued half the engagement. We really need new game announcements more often.
I retweeted (@)Pokemon's interactive hashtag experiment in which they suggested tweeting #GottaCatchEmAll (because we don't really use hashtags, they're lame) and we, as a community, caught Espurr! The tweets were "automated", but we technically got tweeted by (@)Pokemon so...
Finally, much to the Orange Island moderators' delight, discussion on Pokemon Sun & Pokemon Moon news released Friday is BOOMING in Orange Islands (starting from this post) so it's definitely worth joining the hype.
How did everyone commemorate the occasion?
Here are some statistics from how well we did and how pumped for the new games everyone got. Sorry I didn't get this up yesterday, the actual day of the anniversary, had other things to do that unfortunately did not include playing Alpha Sapphire all fucking day like I wanted to. Oh well. Also everyone loves stats.
February 21 - 27, 2016
App. 40,000 more people than follow the page saw our content this week (normally around ~90-130k)
*just under half that number of people interacted with a post at some point during the week!
BKC and dice accrued similar activity on the announcements for their articles in which they discuss Pokemon and its affect on their lives since they've played it. They also were the most popular ones! You can read BKC's article here, and dice's article here. We also had great articles by Finchinator, Stathakis, Vinc2612, and Zebraiken! They read a bit like a diary if you start with Finchinator's entry, though I suggest ripping it out entirely because he's bad.
Oh yeah, and yesterday's panel discussion was pretty cool, and had some of the cutest art by Rocket Grunt (that probably represented what some of y'all were busy doing yesterday).
Our posts simply asking if the public is hype for Pokemon Sun and Pokemon Moon, and "who's ready for some nostalgia?" were the most popular posts in at least the past year or two, garnering 4,443 Reactions/Comments/Shares on the former and 5,409 Reactions/Comments/Shares on the latter. I can't find anything that even came close, except the Zygarde forme announcement post, but even that only accrued half the engagement. We really need new game announcements more often.
I retweeted (@)Pokemon's interactive hashtag experiment in which they suggested tweeting #GottaCatchEmAll (because we don't really use hashtags, they're lame) and we, as a community, caught Espurr! The tweets were "automated", but we technically got tweeted by (@)Pokemon so...
Finally, much to the Orange Island moderators' delight, discussion on Pokemon Sun & Pokemon Moon news released Friday is BOOMING in Orange Islands (starting from this post) so it's definitely worth joining the hype.
How did everyone commemorate the occasion?
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but I saw a baby lion!!!) and I ate so much junk food! then I went out with my friends!! 
