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>Like Porygon, Nanimem is a digital pokémon, however the similarities largely end there. Unlike Porygon, which is explicitly a human creation, Nanimem developed naturally, as least as far as anyone can tell.
>One notable thing about this pokémon is that it is capable of human speech…er…well…sort of. >While occasionally it makes intelligible statements, Nanimem tends to communicate in streams of varying parroted words and syllables. While studies have found no explicit pattern to Nanimem’s speech, listening for extended periods of time has been found to have a strange effect in humans and other pokémon of human-equivalent intelligence.
>A listener will become more and more obsessed with unraveling the code behind Nanimem’s method of speech the more they listen to it. Once they reach a certain threshold, they will go and seek out others to who have likewise been affected, often creating recordings of the sounds and spreading them around in the process. It is here that the purpose of this hypnotic effect is revealed, as the discussion of Nanimem in widescale digital media through some unknown process creates data packets which spawn new Nanimem, which when fully grown burst through the computer to find new hosts to parasitize. Those who have been particularly effected by Nanimem’s call have several times been found in a hypnotic stupor, with up to a dozen of the pokémon wrapped around their head, feeding off of their brain’s electrical signals. The process is not permanently harmful, but can leave a person dull and soporific for up to several weeks.
It’s a literally ‘Viral meme’ in the original senses of the terms viral and meme.