As The Pokeball Turns
A Pokemon interview podcast where Pokemon Trainers share their experiences from the world of Pokemon! Each journey started with a choice and are as different as the number of Pokemon. Listen to the different ways Pokemon Trainer's interact with the Pokemon franchise ranging from Pokemon GO, Pokemon Battles, Pokemon TCG, and much more!
As The Pokeball Turns
TRAINER'S EYE #48 - "Turtwig Capturing Pokemon" ft. KittyPokemonsALot
In this Pokemon interview, we are joined by KittyPokemonsALot, a Pokemon GO Trainer from the United Kingdom and an author from Pokemon GO Hub, who has a unique and creative approach to playing Pokémon GO. Our guest's passion lies in taking augmented reality (AR) photos, capturing the magic and charm of Pokémon in the real world. Join us as we embark on a visual journey, delving into the art of AR photography and the beauty it adds to the Pokémon GO experience.
Beyond her photography endeavors, KittyPokemonsALot reveals her love for writing, which has opened doors to exciting opportunities within the Pokémon GO community. She shares her journey as a contributor to Pokemon GO Hub, the biggest Pokémon GO news site, publishing several informative guides, analysis, and news articles every month. Through her writing, she empowers the Pokemon GO Community with valuable tips and strategies to enhance their gameplay.
Trainer's Eye is a series where the stories are real and people still play this game. From PVP to Shiny Hunting, each person's Pokemon GO journey is unique and we dive into each journey here on As The Pokeball Turns!
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My name is David Hernandez, and you're listening to As the Pokeball Turns. Welcome to as the Pokeball Turns, where the stories are real and people still play this game. In past episodes, I've had the privilege of diving into both journalism and photography with certain guests. In this episode, We combine both of them, and we have a guest who has spent hours promoting the creativity of the AR community through works like the AR showcase. With her passion for AR photography and her love for Pokemon Go, she has written 666 articles for GoHub at the time of this interview. What may initially sound like the devil's number for many is a sign of her dedication and passion from her when it comes to writing, photography, and Pokemon. One could say that she really loves Pokemon a lot. From the United Kingdom, Here's her origin story into the world of Pokemon Go, this is Kitty Pokemon's A Lot. today I'm joined by Kitty Pokemons A Lot. She is a writer for Pokemon Go Hub, the self proclaimed AR queen, and a lover of horror movies. Kitty, thank you for coming on to the show.
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:Thank you so much for inviting me.
David Hernandez:For sure, and I gotta ask this question because I know we're not going to be able to ask this later on. What are some of your favorite horror movies?
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:I am a huge lover of found footage horror films. so Blair Witch is a classic. I have a Blair Witch tattoo even. and then there's a film called As Above So Below, which is all set in the Paris catacombs. That's amazing. there's some really obscure ones I keep, like, a list of all of the ones that I watch because, sometimes they're really hard to find but there's one called, Alien Abduction Incident in Lake County that's really old and it's all filmed on like the worst camcorders ever but so creepy and brilliant the way it's done. I'm also really into scream like I have a, I have a ghost face tattoo but it's like a subtle ghost face tattoo. So like every now and then I'll find people staring at me being like is that, a ghost face tattoo? And it's like yeah it is, just a small secret. Whichever.
David Hernandez:I grew up on, Freddy Krueger and Halloween. All those are more slasher films.
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:Yes, I love, I love slashes as well
David Hernandez:but anyway, we're not here to talk about horror movies. Unfortunately, that's going to be different podcast. I want to ask, like, what's your experience with Pokemon? Like, when did you first start playing?
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:I think, I was, like, about 11 or 12 when the card game really started taking off in England, and so very early was collecting the cards and I have a very like distinct memory of being, like, I was, like, the first kid in my school to get a Charizard, and everyone was so excited And I was, one of the youngest in the school and an older kid trying to buy it off me and things but it all started with the cards and then spiraled out of control from there.
David Hernandez:base one Charizard, you're probably sitting on potential retirement money right
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:I hope so. It would be good. I've got some of my early ones. I found a few out recently, but I know there's like a whole, it's like a old CD case full of them because I never had anything like proper to store them in but I know that they're all in little card sleeves and stuff and they are somewhere in the attic.
David Hernandez:Do you have a favorite Pokemon at all?
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:I have several, but the one I'm most known for is, is Turtwig. I am known as Turtwig's number one fan. but then Psyduck is a close second. I have, chronic cluster headaches and hemiplegic migraines, so I identify very much with Psyduck.
David Hernandez:Now, do you have any Psychic Powers, though?
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:I wish I did, but no, unfortunately not.
David Hernandez:Did you ever get a chance play any of the main series games?
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:No, I never had any consoles or anything until I was like about 18. my little brother always had a Game Boy. So we went to Texas to visit some friends and he bought a Game Boy Color when we were there and bought, red, I think it was. it was his game, not mine. So it was always, having to be sneaky when he wasn't playing it. So I bought a Switch a few years ago and then got really back into it with Sword and Shield and then I'm very obsessed with Scarlet and Violet. I think they're really brilliant. I just think the open world mechanic worked so well, and just made it so much more interesting. I can just, stay in one area for hours and feel like I'm not really accomplishing anything story wise, but there's just so much to do and so much to see that I don't care that I've not really gone anywhere and accomplished anything technically.
David Hernandez:What's your team that you're playing with, Scarlet or Violet?
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:I've got a shiny great tusk in there. which was the first shiny I found, and I just found it randomly the first time I got in Area 0, so that went straight on the team. Mycorrhidon, because I love the way that they let you bond with the legendaries in it, so as soon as I got my second one, that went in the team. I'm trying to switch everything out for shiny variations of stuff at the moment. I think I've got Warchan in there just because I love the idea that it's like a snail, like, or a slug, it's just a ridiculous creature and I love it.
David Hernandez:So Pokemon Go comes out in 2016. Did you play the very first day?
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:I downloaded it a day before it got released in England through like a dodgy APK because I was desperate to be playing it. it was like everyone's childhood dream come true to get to play Pokemon like in real life and walk around and catch them. You know, what we'd all dreamed of as being kids. So the second I found an APK, it was immediately downloaded so I could play it. And then the next day it got released properly. So then I downloaded the proper version of it. But from day one. So I think from in England, I think it was like the 13th of July, I think it got released.
David Hernandez:What was it like when Pokemon Go debuted over in England? Like, were people going to parks? Like, what was the hotspot that people would go to?
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:Yeah, it's definitely like where I live, I live in like a smaller village. So there's still no one really here who plays all these years later, but the nearest town, it was so many people you could, turn up to anywhere and it was so easy to spot all the go players because there'd be groups and little herds of people on their phones and you'd see everyone suddenly fleeing, looking for a Snorlax that had been rumoured, and there used to be so many of us for like the early events and things, they're petered off a bit now, but back then it would be, you could easily guarantee there'd be at least 50 people in the local parks nearly every day playing.
David Hernandez:You said you're in a small village, so is that kind of like you were in a rural area?
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:Yes, I write a bit of a series on GoHub and I tend to call myself semi rural because I'm very aware that the difference between like my rural in England and then someone's rural in some states in America, etc. can be very drastically different things. So where I live, there's probably like one and a half thousand people. Um, you know, there's like a little, a little shop and that's about it. I travel pretty much for every event that I do over to the nearest towns because there's no one else to play here with like we've got a lot of Pokestops and gyms because I've submitted them. but no one else actually play with.
David Hernandez:What's the biggest challenge, you know, playing in a small town like where you're from?
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:A mobile signal. And there's like a whole part of the village that I live in is just completely unplayable because there's no signal at all. So there's like another little park and things that could easily be a Pokestop, but there's no signal here to even attempt to submit it or load up the game with even. Not even worth attempting to play.
David Hernandez:It's like basically the phone just goes dead whenever to go into that area. It's like a force field almost.
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:Yeah, probably more of like, the newer buildings and things. You get to a certain point you just walk across the line and that's it. You're in an immediate dead zone and that whole area is a dead zone, so you're very restricted in the area you can actually play in.
David Hernandez:What was it about Pokemon Go that appealed to you? Because you said it was a dream come true.
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:Yeah, like when you're a kid, like, I never, I didn't really have any pets growing up or anything, so for me it was, like, the idea of being able to have, like, a Pokémon and actually have them come around with me in the real world. That idea was just so cool to me, and it didn't matter that I was in my late 20s by that point, it was still very much a dream come true to be able to actually have Pokémon in the real world to go and catch, so straight away that appealed to me. then obviously once they'd introduced, like, the buddy system and things, like, getting to bond with your Pokémon more it was all I'd wanted from being able to collect Pokémon as a kid to actually then be able to collect them as an adult and take them out with me on adventures and, you know, make memories with them and things. As weird as that sounds, like I like to try and collect Smiggles whenever we go like away on trips and things. You know, like name them after places we've been and things like that. They're all like little memories of all different places that I've been to.
David Hernandez:That's awesome. So you actually do the AR snapshot for Smurgles wherever you visit and you just name it after the place you're from?
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:Yeah, I've got quite a few different ones. And then, like, a lot of, like, the mythicals, I'll try and wait and catch them in special places as well, so, like, Cosmog it was mine and my husband's seventh wedding anniversary, and we went on a trip to a city called York. so I waited and deliberately caught it there instead you know, rather than catch it locally, I wanted to make sure I could catch it somewhere that was a little bit more special. I've got one that I caught when I was at Worlds last year. so I always keep that and then like, you know, a few named after different holidays and things and places I've been, so they're just nice little memories to keep.
David Hernandez:the fun part is, is just how people have gotten creative with Pokemon Go and how they can store memories of, even if you would just think everyday trips, like your case, you did Smurgles, which is very creative. Now you can do stuff like with postcards, which thankfully Niantic did that because that really made it a lot more easier.
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:Although I'm always running on about five spaces for postcards, I'm terrible, and I'm obsessed with the postcard system. all my friends when they go on holiday will send me things from like iconic historical places and things, so I save them all and, All of my Japanese AR photographer pals are always sending me them from all the um, all the manhole covers and stuff that they have. so I am that person that has actually paid cash money to expand my postcard collection. to have some more.
David Hernandez:No, no judgment at all. So what's your way to play Pokemon Go? Like, what's, what do you enjoy doing within the game?
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:so I'm definitely shiny hunter. as soon as a new shiny is released, my gameplay is going to go up dramatically compared to in between events times. but I tried to do my daily adventure incense every day, I've got like a nice little route worked out where I live. My other favorite thing is the AR thing. So I will travel out sometimes to specific areas with the only intention being to take photos because... particularly during like, the lockdowns and stuff during COVID, it was one part of the game that you could play all the time, and it didn't really matter, that I couldn't go out properly, and actually go around and hunt or anything and see people. I could still go in my garden and make my Pokémon teeny tiny, and take photos of them and things, and at least feel I had some sort of creative outlet.
David Hernandez:No, that's fair and I love how creative you get with your photos actually. Cause I know that there's a teeny tiny glitch that you've introduced, right? Or is that you found it, or I know you did an article on it.
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:Yeah, I've done. I've done a few articles on a few different techniques, but the tiny Pokemon I think it was, the photographer called Ash Ketchup. he was the first person I saw doing it. And then there's another technique called Pokemon, which is like a throwback to An actual photography style where using a really shallow depth of field, with like lights and things behind and people would call it bokeh, because the lights out of focus would look really beautiful. So you kind of trick your camera into being in focus on your hand or something blocking the lens, move your hand away and then really, really quickly take the picture before your phone's had the chance to readjust and put everything back in focus, because obviously, like, if you're taking a photo with a real camera of someone, like, a portrait, not everything is going to be in focus, so it's kind of a way to trick it with Pokemon Go AR now to kind of make it a bit more realistic.
David Hernandez:What is it about ar photos that you enjoy the most?
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:many years back, I was a photographer. I used to do like a lot of fashion photography, odd weddings and things. but I developed carpal tunnel syndrome, so I couldn't lift the camera anymore. Basically, my hands are Kind of ruined from that. I've had the surgeries and when I had the surgeries, I thought great I'm gonna be able to put my camera up again and unfortunately no such luck. I've got permanent nerve damage Thankfully, I'm left handed, my left hand is a lot better than my right hand but obviously kind of need both of them with heavy equipment and things and that all happened Early 2016 that was all happening, and then just as Pokemon Go was coming out was when I had my surgeries, so then realizing that I could take photos with that, I was like right, okay I can hold my phone for a lot longer, I can do that. So I might not be able to like lift my heavy camera anymore and take photos of people, but I can take photos of Pokemon and that'll at least feel like I've not given up completely.
David Hernandez:It sounds like AR photos allowed you to combine, you know, the prior passion you have with photography with your love of Pokemon, as well as just living out the dream of going on a journey.
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:Yeah, definitely. I'd say it was something that I was, I was really devastated to kind of lose that as a part of my life like I've still got all my gear, all my equipment all these years later. I'm not like let myself get rid of it because now I'm still hopeful that one day maybe my hands will be okay enough, but it's nice to be able to still have that little bit of my life I thought it was going to have to be gone, but actually, you know, just swapped people for Pokemon instead and Pokemon are much cuter and nicer to deal with than people. So,
David Hernandez:so you mentioned you have carpal tunnel syndrome, does that affect how you play the game at all, having carpal tunnel syndrome?
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:Yeah, it definitely does. I do have to be careful, like when we do daylong events and things, cuz I know by the end of the day, I mostly hold my phone in my right hand and then use my left hand. I, I can't do it one-handed because I just don't have the dexterity in my hands to do it. I have to have, like a pop socket or something similar to help take the weight of the phone. the last time I upgraded my phone, important thing for me was the size and the weight of the phone being lighter than my old one. So I did loads of research on that to try and make sure I had, like, a good phone still, but that was a lot lighter than my old one because it was, such a problem for me but it, it also means that, like, PVP. just not that accessible for me because the repetitive movements over and over again quickly just it's not going to happen for me. My hands are not quick enough or good enough for the PVP unfortunately.
David Hernandez:Does it make it to where like it's too painful or it's just to the point to where you just can't do that motion fast enough?
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:It's to the point where it's painful, so I just have to be careful with it. So like, I'm going to London for GoFest in August. I know that I am going to pay for it big time the next day, but that's fine. I will do one day of playing and then the next day will be socializing day and not really using my phone it'll be relying on the plus plus, and not having to worry about the hands too much.
David Hernandez:How excited are you for GoFest?? Because it's right in your backyard, correct?
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:It is, yeah. Um, I'm actually, I'm dragging my husband to it and I don't think he has any concept of what he's letting himself in for with it because he doesn't really play Pokemon Go. he's very supportive and all of my Pokemon nerdiness, but he doesn't really play it. He mostly has only played it over the years, more when, so events, obviously now events are all local time, but they didn't used to be. So most events used to start, like, when I was asleep, but he has to get up for work about four hours before I do. So he would wake up, log in the game, catch the new things, and then send me screenshots to torment me with before, you know, so that he already had the new shiny things in the game, or the new Pokédex entries before I'd even woken up, so his interest mostly in Pokémon has been there to tease me. But he's going to come down with me. We've got about, I think it's about four hours on the train for us. we're actually, we're going down from the Wednesday through to this Saturday with our play day being the Friday, very, very excited at this point. And nearly all of my local community are going as well. There's a huge amount of us going, so it should be brilliant.
David Hernandez:Is this your first GoFest?
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:It is. Yeah. Yeah. Um, a lot of my friends did Germany, but like because of my carpal tunnel over the years. And then I also, I have a chronic pain condition as well. So things like traveling to Germany and things was just not as viable for me when I was more unwell. So London is very doable because it doesn't involve any flying. It doesn't involve any jet lag. I can take things easy and I know the area and things. So very excited for it.
David Hernandez:Now earlier you said you got to attend Worlds. What was that like?
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:It was amazing. I had no idea what to expect, really. I went by myself and met up with a few of the other GoHub writers. Until last year, I'd never actually met any of the other GoHub writers in person, which was, so that was quite a surreal thing. Like Adam had flown over from Australia to compete. which was amazing because I didn't think I would ever get to meet one of our Australian writers and then Jellybean who we consider like to be the mum of GoHub Uh was there and then Spindiana as well. All of whom bar Adam, he's going to be at the Japanese GoFest, But both Jellybean and Spindiana will be at London again as well. So we'll get to hang out again as well. got to meet a lot of like the influencers, content creators, and stuff that I really admire and I caught a shiny 0% Unown-N, so I got a real good trophy out of it as well.
David Hernandez:That's awesome. That's a good memory right there.
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:I was very excited about that one, and I was in the hall while we were watching the finals as well, so really good fun.
David Hernandez:You've been listening to As the Pokeball Turns. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. So, earlier you mentioned how you write for GoHub. how did that all begin?
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:Years ago, I used to be a plus size fashion blogger. so I've written for a lot of years and I used to write for like a body positivity magazine. Pokemon go came out and I got really into that. I kind of slowly abandoned fashion blogging because, number one, I just don't care that much about fashion. So I don't know why I ever did it in the first place. and once you've written an article about Demi Lovato being treated badly by the media and had Demi Lovato's stans come after you, you can't have a lot less interested in the whole scene. so when I used to read GoHub every single day, it was always like my go to place for information, so then when, Zero, boss at Go Hub posted up that they were looking for writers. I was like, oh, I, I can I write things? I can totally do that. and that was, I think that was three years ago. This week I hit like 6 66 articles. So
David Hernandez:ooh, devil's number.
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:where once I realized it, then I was like, well, now's a little screenshot of that cuz it's another one of those things that I got into and then it spirals out of control.
David Hernandez:Well, you must be pretty passionate about writing because before you did blog story, you did fashion. Now you do stuff about Pokemon. What is it about writing that makes you want to keep creating?
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:I was always interested in writing like when I was a teenager and I was a little emo kid. I used to write terrible poetry as many little emo kids did and things and then I got older and then I did an English degree thinking that that would be useful or helpful in some way, uh, my day job involves maths, so it's not useful or helpful in any way, as it turns out. Um,
David Hernandez:complete opposite of what usually people do.
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:I couldn't be any further from it because now I do accounts for a living, so nothing helpful at all in my English degree, but I always wanted to just keep on writing. I had a teacher who was really adamant that I would get to do something really cool one day with writing, so I was like, I'll just keep doing bits and, keep doing things. Let's say now it's out to GoHub and I like that I can feel like I'm being helpful to the community because Obviously, we know that Niantic's communication is not necessarily the best and I know how helpful I found it like especially before I was writing things like the raid guides and you know Being able to share them with people and help people be able to take down raids more successfully and things. It's it's really I really love being able to be a part of that and, you know, help other people, in the way that I felt like I was being helped by GO Hub, and now I get to be that person, so it's a real privilege to get to do it.
David Hernandez:It's like you're giving back to the community that gave you the knowledge that you didn't know to begin with.
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:Yeah, definitely. Like, I was always like, I was always a very like socially awkward and anxious kind of person. And Pokemon is that really an icebreaker with Pokemon Go. Pokemon gave me so much more confidence and things that it's, it's nice to be able to give back to the, a game that has helped me so much. if I told Kitty of seven years ago that I just started playing Pokemon that like, by the way, in 2022, you're going to go to London by yourself and meet up with complete strangers from the internet that you've never met before and have like the best time. She would have laughed at me and been like, no, she wouldn't go on the train by herself like don't be daft. You've never do any of that by yourself. And no, I did and I will be doing it again. At Worlds, I met all the Incensed podcast lads, uh, who are a really nice bunch and get to see them again, which will be good and let's say the other GoHub writers. And then also, let's say get to take my local community with me because like Facebook messenger chat, I think every single one of us is going, which is amazing. so just to be with them at such a huge event and, um, hopefully get some shinies, I'm also not like hugely fussed if I don't get many shinies because I just think there might never be another Go Fest in London. I might not ever get to go to one again. So just to actually be lucky enough that I can go to this one just to get to experience it.
David Hernandez:That's what I was gonna say. It sounds like you're more interested in trying to appreciate the moment that's gonna come into your backyard because you don't know when's the next time you go to a Go Fest
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:Yeah, exactly like all the other ones have previously been like in Germany. So when there was rumors of this one, we all started to get quite hyped. And it was like, if this is a real thing, like this is viable for me, I can do this. I can travel to London and like that could work and Then obviously it has all thankfully fallen into place where I can get the time off work. I can afford to travel. I could afford the hotel and things. It's like fantastic. I'm going to do it. I'm going to spend far too much money doing it, but it will be worth it for the week.
David Hernandez:Oh that's awesome. let's go back to the Go Hub articles. The one thing I love that you do is I love that you do the AR showcase cuz it really brings out the creativity that's within the Pokemon Go community, especially with the AR community.
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:I think I feel like we're such like a small kind of underappreciated community, as the communities go for it and it is. It's my absolute favorite thing that I get to do every single month like it wasn't my idea originally. There was another writer who used to do it, who's left. So when they left, I was like, can I take that over? Cause I wanted to be able to keep doing it and seeing all the different submissions every month and seeing how creative people get. And that inspires me in turn. And I used to submit to them before I was in charge of them. The buzz from seeing your work on a website that you read is amazing, and like, maybe you'll make the header one day or something, like, every month I try to pick someone different who's done something amazing to be the header, because I know how buzzing I would have been if my picture had ever been chosen for the header, so I consider that to be, like, my ultimate little, like, you're awesome stamp for someone, and I hope, people are as excited as I am when I pick them for it. it's just such a nice thing to be able to do and highlight our little community, because like, there's so many bugs and stuff in AR and Niantic just don't even acknowledge them existing, so I feel like we're very much left by the wayside considering it is an AR game, but there's a good group of us, there's a good bunch of us that are still doing it and still enjoying it.
David Hernandez:What's something would like to see implemented within AR that doesn't currently exist?
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:I'd love to see them do more expressions and things for the Pokemon because the animations are so limited and lots of the animations are broken from what they used to be as well. buddy mode is broken and has been for a year and a half, two years at this point, they don't want to acknowledge it as broken. so I just want to see more options in variation for the expressions and things, and then there's some of the other Niantic games, like I also play Pikmin Bloom, the AR in that is so much better. Obviously the AR in Peridot, so much more intelligent, but like none of that seems to be transferring into Go, but I think that's because. People just don't think about that side of it as much. So people aren't as interested. So they're not as interested in developing it, but like we're here.
David Hernandez:That's what I noticed, because I play Peridot as well and I noticed the AR, like you said you get the expressions, there so much to do with it, Peridot, was like, can we do that Pokemon can I like throw a ball to an Eevee or a Growlithe and let them go catch it? Like I would love to see some of that stuff. Implement, didn't go.
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:it would It really would be like, having the option to do, like, a bunch of different tricks with it, like you can in Peridot and things, like, just more than the two animations that we get. it would make the Pokémon so much more real and make people bond with them further, and it would be so good to see that.
David Hernandez:Well, Kitty, that's a show. Before we do close the show, where can people check out your articles? Where can people connect with you? By all means, please plug away.
Kitty Pokemons A Lot:Uh, so I have, both TikTok and Instagram, uh, under KittyPokemonsAlot then Twitter is currently KittyRambles and then on GoHub, if you go on the GoHub front page, there will always be an article by me, and then if you click on my name, you'll see everything I've written, which there is far too much to read. I'm nearly always got something on the front page on there, so, easy to find.
David Hernandez:Cool beans. And I'll make sure to include links to everything she said in the description of today's episode. Thank you for listening to As the Pokéball Turns. If you want to support the show, consider becoming a patron by either clicking the link in the description or going to patreon.com/asthepokéballturns. Now here's a sneak peek for the next episode of As the Pokéball Turns.