TikTok allows users to post videos lasting up to a minute in a social media timeline. Dave Ashby has used the platform to post videos of virtual interactions with monsters from Pokemon. His Pokemon videos have gotten very popular, and even went viral on Twitter. Ashby’s video of him walking with Bulbasaur was posted on Twitter with the caption “This is why we want Pokemon to be real.” Bulbasaur is one of the original starter Pokemon so there is a lot of nostalgia watching someone walking next to a companion from the original Game Boy game.

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Ashby has featured a lot of Pokemon in his TikTok videos. Many of them compare Pokemon to real-life animals, such as Pidgeys hovering around a picnic table like birds trying to pick scrapes from a leftover meal. His most popular video features a group of four Eevee surrounding him at a sunny day in the park. Eevee is an adorable Pokemon that is widely known for its many evolutions. Many fans will be happy to know that Ashby does have several TikToks of some of the evolutions, including one where he uses an iPhone to show an animation of the electric evolution, Jolteon, popping out of a virtual Pokeball.

The popular TikToks are similar to the Pokemon GO app, which has a feature that allows players to catch Pokemon in the environment using AR technology. Players often times use this feature to take pictures of Pokemon in landmark locations. One of the Pokemon GO events even had players take pictures using the AR feature to find Detective Pikachu.

Detective Pikachu, the live-action Pokemon movie, also imagines a world with Pokemon living in it. Pokemon in the movie are integrated into society and even have jobs. It is possible that Dave Ashby drew inspiration from both Pokemon GO and the movie. His interactions with the Pokemon are adorable and rendering them to look like they are physically there is no easy task. His work has led him to go viral and racked up nearly 86,000 followers and 1.1 million likes to his Tik Tok page.

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