History YMMV / TwitchPlaysPokemon

* FanNickname: A lot of Pokemon have been given fan nicknames over the course of the playthroughs. Pokemon are often given unpronouncable names that are just random letters, so they are often given nicknames that are easier to remember and type. Many recieve nicknames that are based on they way their nonsensical nicknames might sound (like ZDNNNG the Skitty was named [[DirtyCommunists "Chairman Meow Zedong"]]), their powers or abilities (like Digrat, the Rattata who knew Dig and often used it at inopportune moments), or their supposed divine origin (such as Lord Helix, an Omanyte that came from the holy Helix fossil that Red looked at over and over again).

** Viewership was still strong for ''Crystal'' but could never quite match ''Red'''s popularity, and it dropped off sharply during ''Emerald''. Even when Twitch advertised the one year anniversary of the stream for ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRedAnniversary'', the highest it got was ten thousand in its start and sharply dropped to a few thousand in a couple of hours.
** Whenever someone mentions [=TPP=], most people refer to the ''Red'' run. Someone talking about ''Crystal'' or ''Emerald'' is fairly uncommon, and a rarity for any run after that.
** Eventually defied...sort of. In September and October of 2017, the subreddit held a "Series/{{Survivor}}-style" poll series in which people voted off their ''least favorite'' run. ''Crystal'' was the last one standing, while ''Red'' exited in 7th place and ''Emerald'' was surprisingly knocked out in 21st, before ''any'' other Season 1 run.

** For a lot of people, the appeal fell through after ''Red'' ended, largely due to ''Crystal'' retreading the same ground. Others stuck around longer, but largely, the fanbase is nowhere near as large as it once was. Most people who return to the stream for a long time are usually surprised the channel has lasted so long, and it has been a recurring joke for the chat to question if [=TPP=] is still a "thing" or not.

* AcceptableTargets: The mob itself. [[AnarchyIsChaos With thousands of people trying to control a single character,]] [[EpicFail/TwitchPlaysPokemon things are bound to go awry.]]

* DorkAge:
** Subverted for the number of viewers. Despite its constant average of 300-800 simultaneous viewers since the Nintendo [=DS=] runs and ''100-200'' simultaneous viewers in Season 9, with some spikes here and there, the number of unique viewers per day has been high as ever.
** In terms of the run themselves, ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonBlack'' was this for Season 1 due to a decrease of morale after subsequent releases in its first few days and ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysTouhoumonAndMoemon'' for Season 2 due to being similar to previous Kanto runs and its dual-input system being more tedious than enjoyable.
** The middle of Season 8 was plagued with trolls who took advantage of the significantly lower fanbase than the glory days had had to stall for hours at a time, mass release party members and entire boxes, and, in ''Blazing Emerald'', giving all the Pokémon increasingly dirty names. This led to a bunch of [[DarkerAndEdgier grimdark lore]] as well, with even the lighter interpretations portraying W ☹☹[=''=] and AGGGNNV as depressed and angsty {{Emo Teen}}s and the darker ones making them full {{Villain Protagonist}}s (contrast with ''Emerald'' and ''Black'' in Season 1, where attempts to make A a serial killer who bumped off would-be hosts or GMYC a zealot who willingly killed his own teammates to appease the Voices were rejected by the fanbase as too edgy and hard to write lore around).

** ''Red'': [[KillEmAll Bloody Sunday]] and [[RonTheDeathEater Flareon's]] release.

** The middle of Season 8 was plagued with trolls who took advantage of the significantly lower fanbase than the glory days had had to stall for hours at a time, mass release party members and entire boxes, and, in ''Blazing Emerald'', giving all the Pokémon increasingly dirty names. This led to a bunch of [[DarkerAndEdgier grimdark lore]] as well, with even the lighter interpretations portraying W ☹☹'' and AGGGNNV as depressed and angsty {{Emo Teen}}s and the darker ones making them full {{Villain Protagonist}}s (contrast with ''Emerald'' and ''Black'' in Season 1, where attempts to make A a serial killer who bumped off would-be hosts or GMYC a zealot who willingly killed his own teammates to appease the Voices were rejected by the fanbase as too edgy and hard to write lore around).

** Whether runs should have lore or not anymore. The official subreddit still insist on coming up with lore based on what happens in the runs, while most people who only go to the stream have started poking fun at them over it in the latter runs. As of late, many on the stream just [[PlayTheGameSkipTheStory prefer playing the games now and enjoying the insanity that ensues]].

** Subverted for the number of viewers. Despite its constant average of 300-800 simultaneous viewers since the Nintendo [=DS=] runs, with some spikes here and there, the number of unique viewers per day has been high as ever.

** Later on in the TPP series, Bill seemed to have betrayed the Dome for his own purposes.