The popular app has countries starting to fear that the adorable animated creatures signal the end of time. According to Reuters, China fears the app can “work out where Chinese military bases are by seeing where users can’t go to capture Pokemon characters.” People playing the game in Russia could land themselves in jail.
America hasn’t quite caught up to the dangers, but Lions guard Larry Warford is starting to spread the word, via the Detroit Free Press.
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“I was like, ‘This is bad, this is bad,’” Warford said, describing the horror of watching his teammates play the game as they went out to eat. “They were playing it and I was like, ‘Nope!’ And I deleted it right there, right when I got to the restaurant. The funny thing is, the people I was eating with, they were playing it, too.”
Why was he so concerned about the game? Because while he was walking on Arizona State’s campus, he noticed about 30 to 40 people playing the game and decided nothing good could come from it.
“It was a bunch of people playing it and I was like, ‘I don’t like this.’ I deleted it because I was like, ‘This is some mind-control stuff.’ I don’t like it.”
