GoKawiil'Pokémon Go to the polls' meme marks 10 years since Clinton remark
Ten years after Hillary Clinton referenced Pokémon Go during a 2016 campaign rally, the phrase 'Pokémon Go to the polls' continues to resurface as a meme every Election Day. Since then, Pokémon Go itself has been sold to a company owned by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, and much of app development has shifted toward AI-assisted coding.
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The meme's endurance illustrates how thoroughly internet culture has fused with American political life since 2016, a trend commentators point to in examples like presidential tweeting, meme managers on campaigns, and podcaster access to the White House. Observers suggest the moment marked an early, awkward attempt by establishment politicians to court younger, internet-native voters, a dynamic that has only intensified as online political discourse has grown more fragmented.
- Clinton's 2016 'Pokémon Go to the polls' remark still circulates as a meme a decade later.
- Pokémon Go has since been sold to a firm owned by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund.
- Commentators link the meme's persistence to deeper entanglement of internet culture and U.S. politics since 2016.
Source: techcrunch.com — Amanda Silberling, 2026-11-03
Published there as: “Ten years later, ‘Pokémon Go to the polls’ still haunts the internet”
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