fads and trends
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Meta’s Trying to Blame TikTok for Popularising Its Own Poisonous User Trends
Meta allegedly has a new preferred strategy for dealing with its social media competitors: If you can’t beat them, smear them!
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Thief Breaks Through Card Shop Wall and Steals $347,050 Worth of Pokémon Cards
A locally-owned game and card shop in Forest Lake, Minnesota was robbed by a lone thief in the middle of the night on February 10. The man escaped with $US250,000 (around $347,050) worth of rare Pokémon cards and cash.
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Pokémon Legends Arceus Is Evolving My Relationship with the Pokémon World
For nearly 26 years, Pokémon games have been predicated on a singular, combative formula: catch Pokémon, train them, fight them, collect badges, be the very best Pokémon trainer there ever was. You can do all that in Pokémon Legends Arceus, but it’s not really the focus. Instead, it asks you to reconsider how you actually…
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LAPD Officers Fired for Ignoring Robbery To Play Pokémon Go
Two officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) were fired due to, among other things, playing Pokémon Go, a newly published court document reveals (h/t Axios).