{"id":20789,"date":"2023-08-17T17:23:27","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T08:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=20789"},"modified":"2023-08-17T17:23:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T08:23:58","slug":"20230817-20789","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230817-20789\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPok\u00e9mon SEX\u201d is trending in Japan and users are afraid to find out why"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cSex as in gender, right&#8230;?\u201d Japanese users fearfully questioned (but were wrong) as they saw the hashtag \u201cPok\u00e9mon SEX\u201d rise to the top of the trending list on X (formerly Twitter) on August 17. For most, the sudden trend appeared out of nowhere, raising nothing but questions as to why the disturbing combination of words would become relevant enough to trend nationwide. Just what triggered the stream of posts mentioning Pok\u00e9mon Sex?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"568\" height=\"183\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230817-20789-.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230817-20789-.jpg 568w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230817-20789--380x122.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230817-20789--150x48.jpg 150w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230817-20789--300x97.jpg 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Venturing into the dreaded \u201c<a href=\"\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=\u30dd\u30b1\u30e2\u30f3SEX&amp;src=trend_click&amp;vertical=trends\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pok\u00e9mon SEX<\/a>\u201d hashtag, one is first met with an influx of concerned posts, questioning \u201cWhat the hell is Pok\u00e9mon SEX?,\u201d expressing disgust and confusion, some even declaring that \u201cJapan is over as a country.\u201d Trying to track down the trend reveals that it may have something to do with Japan\u2019s declining birthrate and an imaginary meme-sequel to the games Pok\u00e9mon GO and Pok\u00e9mon Sleep.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u30dd\u30b1\u30e2\u30f3GO\u2192\u307f\u3093\u306a\u304c\u5916\u51fa\u3059\u308b\u3088\u3046\u306b\u306a\u3063\u305f<br>\u30dd\u30b1\u30e2\u30f3Sleep\u2192\u307f\u3093\u306a\u304c\u7720\u308b\u3088\u3046\u306b\u306a\u3063\u305f<br><br>\u30dd\u30b1\u30e2\u30f3\u3059\u3052\u3048\u3088\u3002\u3060\u3063\u3066\u78ba\u5b9f\u306b\u793e\u4f1a\u8ab2\u984c\u3092\u89e3\u6c7a\u3057\u3066\u308b\u3082\u3093\u3002<br><br>\u983c\u3080\u65e5\u672c\u306e\u5c11\u5b50\u5316\u3082\u3053\u306e\u8abf\u5b50\u3067\u89e3\u6c7a\u3057\u3066\u304f\u308c\u3002<br>\u5c11\u5b50\u5316\u3092\u3002<\/p>&mdash; \u30c4\u30a4\u5ec3RE\ud835\udd4f (@REX_TwiHai) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/REX_TwiHai\/status\/1691709497616806157?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><font size=\"2\"><strong>Post translation:<\/strong> Pok\u00e9mon GO \u2192 Everyone started going outside&nbsp;<br>Pok\u00e9mon Sleep \u2192 Everyone started getting sleep&nbsp;<br>Pok\u00e9mon is amazing, they\u2019re solving the issues of society.&nbsp;<br>Now, please do something about Japan\u2019s declining birthrate too.<\/font><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The above-mentioned post, which suggests a Pok\u00e9mon game similar to Pok\u00e9mon GO and Pok\u00e9mon Sleep, but focused on encouraging people to engage in procreation, is likely what gave birth to the buzzword, as upon hearing the idea, users almost unanimously <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gyokuri1111\/status\/1692005011239379150?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">came up with<\/a> and chanted the title \u201cPok\u00e9mon SEX.\u201d As a result, the post has gone viral, with over 70k likes and over 9k reposts at the time of writing. Another user also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tacoskamos\/status\/1688472849047285760?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suggested<\/a> the imaginary series of Pok\u00e9mon GO, Sleep, Eat and Sex.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As one would expect, the idea of a Pok\u00e9mon game in which one collects and evolves Pok\u00e9mon by engaging in intercourse quickly developed into unspeakable directions as users let their imaginations go wild with the prompt, imagining what would be the characteristics of such a game. Some examples include the idea of different Pok\u00e9mon hatching from eggs based on the player&#8217;s \u201cgame,\u201d the existence of a Pok\u00e9mon Professor who researches the mating of Pok\u00e9mon, the game sharing \u201cWhy sex is good for you!\u201d advice with the player and similar. Some even imagined the effect such a game would have on cheating among couples.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/mai_mai13579\/status\/1692007326306500818?s=20\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><font size=\"2\"><strong>Post translation:<\/strong> I want couples to play Pok\u00e9mon SEX together and then find out one of them is cheating because their Pok\u00e9mon are more evolved.<\/font><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Seeing the hashtag Pokemon SEX being thrown around, one can\u2019t help but be reminded of a certain past incident that had a similar ring to it. When the mobile game Pok\u00e9mon Masters was renewed under the new title Pok\u00e9mon Masters EX, the promotional campaign for it on Twitter (now X) suddenly went into an inappropriate direction as insufficient attention to capitalization transformed the hashtag from \u201cpokemonmastersEX\u201d into \u201cpokemonmastersex,\u201d becoming an infinite source of amusement of users.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The importance of capitalization. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/pokemonmastersex?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#pokemonmastersex<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t0JgLYRT3X\">pic.twitter.com\/t0JgLYRT3X<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Dov \u2736 Avaddov \u2721\ufe0f\ud83c\udf97\ufe0f\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf1 (@Avaddov) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Avaddov\/status\/1300794739831312384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese users were shocked to see the hashtag \u201cPok\u00e9mon SEX\u201d rise to the top of the trending list on X (formerly Twitter) on August 17. It seems the trend had something to do with Japan&#8217;s declining birthrate and a meme-sequel to Pok\u00e9mon GO and Pok\u00e9mon Sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":20794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17,70],"class_list":["post-20789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news","tag-pokemon-series"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u201cPok\u00e9mon SEX\u201d is trending in Japan and users are afraid to find out why - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Japanese users were shocked to see the hashtag \u201cPok\u00e9mon SEX\u201d rise to the top of the trending list on X (formerly Twitter) on August 17. It seems the trend had something to do with Japan&#039;s declining birthrate and a meme-sequel to Pok\u00e9mon GO and Pok\u00e9mon Sleep.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230817-20789\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cPok\u00e9mon SEX\u201d is trending in Japan and users are afraid to find out why - AUTOMATON WEST\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Japanese users were shocked to see the hashtag \u201cPok\u00e9mon SEX\u201d rise to the top of the trending list on X (formerly Twitter) on August 17. It seems the trend had something to do with Japan&#039;s declining birthrate and a meme-sequel to Pok\u00e9mon GO and Pok\u00e9mon Sleep.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230817-20789\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"AUTOMATON WEST\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-08-17T08:23:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-17T08:23:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230817-20789-header-1-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1030\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"581\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Amber V\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AUTOMATON_ENG\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AUTOMATON_ENG\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Amber V\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"\u201cPok\u00e9mon SEX\u201d is trending in Japan and users are afraid to find out why - AUTOMATON WEST","description":"Japanese users were shocked to see the hashtag \u201cPok\u00e9mon SEX\u201d rise to the top of the trending list on X (formerly Twitter) on August 17. It seems the trend had something to do with Japan's declining birthrate and a meme-sequel to Pok\u00e9mon GO and Pok\u00e9mon Sleep.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230817-20789\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"\u201cPok\u00e9mon SEX\u201d is trending in Japan and users are afraid to find out why - AUTOMATON WEST","og_description":"Japanese users were shocked to see the hashtag \u201cPok\u00e9mon SEX\u201d rise to the top of the trending list on X (formerly Twitter) on August 17. It seems the trend had something to do with Japan's declining birthrate and a meme-sequel to Pok\u00e9mon GO and Pok\u00e9mon Sleep.","og_url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230817-20789\/","og_site_name":"AUTOMATON WEST","article_published_time":"2023-08-17T08:23:27+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-08-17T08:23:58+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1030,"height":581,"url":"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230817-20789-header-1-1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Amber V","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@AUTOMATON_ENG","twitter_site":"@AUTOMATON_ENG","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Amber V","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230817-20789\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230817-20789\/"},"author":{"name":"Amber V","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/fdc6517a00e35b6917ffdb02e8b574d9"},"headline":"\u201cPok\u00e9mon SEX\u201d is trending in Japan and users are afraid to find out why","datePublished":"2023-08-17T08:23:27+00:00","dateModified":"2023-08-17T08:23:58+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230817-20789\/"},"wordCount":531,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230817-20789\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230817-20789-header-1-1.jpg","keywords":["News (Japan-related)","Pokemon Series"],"articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230817-20789\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230817-20789\/","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230817-20789\/","name":"\u201cPok\u00e9mon SEX\u201d is trending in Japan and users are afraid to find out why - AUTOMATON WEST","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230817-20789\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230817-20789\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230817-20789-header-1-1.jpg","datePublished":"2023-08-17T08:23:27+00:00","dateModified":"2023-08-17T08:23:58+00:00","description":"Japanese users were shocked to see the hashtag \u201cPok\u00e9mon SEX\u201d rise to the top of the trending list on X (formerly Twitter) on August 17. It seems the trend had something to do with Japan's declining birthrate and a meme-sequel to Pok\u00e9mon GO and Pok\u00e9mon Sleep.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230817-20789\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230817-20789\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230817-20789\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230817-20789-header-1-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230817-20789-header-1-1.jpg","width":1030,"height":581},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230817-20789\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"\u30db\u30fc\u30e0","item":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"\u201cPok\u00e9mon SEX\u201d is trending in Japan and users are afraid to find out why"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/","name":"AUTOMATON WEST","description":"AUTOMATON is a website that covers the Japanese gaming world. We bring you the news on video games from Osaka and Tokyo.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#organization","name":"\u682a\u5f0f\u4f1a\u793e\u30a2\u30af\u30c6\u30a3\u30d6\u30b2\u30fc\u30df\u30f3\u30b0\u30e1\u30c7\u30a3\u30a2","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/activegamingmedia_logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/activegamingmedia_logo.png","width":374,"height":190,"caption":"\u682a\u5f0f\u4f1a\u793e\u30a2\u30af\u30c6\u30a3\u30d6\u30b2\u30fc\u30df\u30f3\u30b0\u30e1\u30c7\u30a3\u30a2"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/AUTOMATON_ENG","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCabvYnvuUUbbGUrxkaFRgSA"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/fdc6517a00e35b6917ffdb02e8b574d9","name":"Amber V","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/12252024-100x100.jpg","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/12252024-100x100.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/12252024-100x100.jpg","caption":"Amber V"},"description":"Editor-in-Chief since October 2023. She grew up playing Duke Nukem and Wolfenstein with her dad, and is now enamored with obscure Japanese video games and internet culture. Currently devoted to growing Automaton West to the size of its Japanese sister-site, while making sure to keep news concise and developer stories deep and stimulating.","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/author\/amber-vjestica\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20789"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20796,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20789\/revisions\/20796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}