![]() ![]() In 2017, he stepped down as channel host. He was active on Reddit, and participated in a few media interviews. He is referred to by the community as streamer or OG streamer/ OG (for "original"). ![]() The original creator of the stream, TwitchPlaysPokemon, is a largely anonymous person, though he has revealed he is a male freelance programmer from Australia. ![]() The stream celebrated 500 days of near-continuous running in June 2015 followed by 1,000 days in November 2016 and 1,500 days in March 2018. After successful completion of the first run, the channel continued streaming other Pokémon games, and is intended to remain active as long as there is still interest in the channel. It has received several awards, including a Guinness World Record. The channel had around 120,000 simultaneous viewers at its peak, with almost 36 million total views in the first run alone. The channel will also stream playthroughs of other games, often not connected to Pokémon, during Intermissions. A variety of content is broadcast between runs, most prominent of which are seasons of Pokémon Battle Revolution (referred to by TPP users as PBR). The stream is broken into seasons and runs of various Pokémon games, including ROM hacks and official games. The channel is notorious for its fan-generated lore, spawning thousands of stories, images, videos, and Internet memes. The channel went live with a playthrough of Pokémon Red on Februat 23:16:01 UTC, and received widespread media attention internationally for its chaotic nature and unique concept. This streaming format is known as Twitch Plays, of which Twitch Plays Pokémon was the originator. Via Twitch's built-in chat, Twitch users can play the game being streamed by entering inputs such as "A", "B", "left", or "right". Twitch Plays Pokémon (often abbreviated to TPP) is a Twitch channel known for streaming chat-controlled Pokémon games, usually through the use of emulators.
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