If you had any doubts (which you shouldn't) about Pokemon GO's [Free] global popularity this year, look no further than Google Trends for 2016, which shows the most trending searches during the very extraordinary year that we've had. The top 5 include Donald Trump and the iPhone 7, but above both of those is Pokemon GO, which is an amazing feat for a mobile game that was only around for half of 2016. The US trending searches were quite different from the global ones, but Pokemon GO still managed to be number 4 (just above Slitheri.io, another huge game).
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I know many enjoy the "Pokemon GO is dead" narrative, but one, the game is still making a gazillion dollars, and two, no matter what the current state of the game, evidence like google's trending searches remind us what a huge cultural phenomenon that game was. I really wonder whether we'll ever see anything like that ever again.

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