Pokémon Go player trolls Westboro Baptist Church

Nerelle Harper 13 July 2016

The sick homophobes from the Westboro Baptist Church have been trolled by a user of the smash hit mobile phone game Pokémon Go.

For the uninitiated, the addictive new game, which is based on the popular Japanese video game series, sends each player on a quest around their own neighbourhood to collect virtual creatures called Pokemon. Some notable areas in each neighbourhood are designated as Pokémon “gyms”.

Unfortunately, the Westboro Baptist Church has been designated as a gym, but some US players have discovered that one player has staked a claim in the WBC’s location with the pink Pokémon Clefairy, named “Loveislove”.

an unstoppable clefairy named Loveislove has apparently seized control of the Westboro Baptist Church #PokemonGO gym pic.twitter.com/8Du64FB8JS

— MAX IM A KOOPA (@meakoopa) July 9, 2016

Pokémon Go release

After it release last week for Apple and Android devices, Pokémon Go soared straight to No. 1 on app store charts. Following that, it hijacked everyone’s social media feeds.

More than 2300 local players have RSVP’d to a meetup event at the Botanic Gardens in Brisbane this Saturday.

#pokemongo trainers at South Bank pic.twitter.com/7d3GXVg53O

— Yang Wong (@yangwong) July 9, 2016

I don’t think it gets more gay than a Machoke posing in front of a gay bar on a rainbow crosswalk. #PokemonGO pic.twitter.com/BFpMqujobA

— Raytings (@raylancione) July 11, 2016

Someone finally bought me a beer at a gay bar, because I let him borrow my phone charger so he could play Pokemon Go.

— Tom Keiser (@keisertroll) July 9, 2016