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On 28 July 2016, the satirical site Clickhole reported that after Niantic issued an update to the popular Pokémon GO app, Pokémon characters in the game would scream when players approached within one mile of any registered sex offender: Many confused the satire with reality on 2 August 2016, after New York's governor Andrew Cuomo announced that registered sex offenders in the state were banned from playing the augmented reality game as a condition of their sentences: It's probable that some readers confused the real-life news about Gov. Cuomo's Pokémon GO ban for sex offenders with Clickhole's satirical article. However, nothing Clickhole publishes is intended to be taken seriously. The site is a spinoff of The Onion, launched in 2014 to parody clickbait sites such as Upworthy: Before the marginally believable Pokémon GO rumor, Clickhole inadvertently confused readers with claims that George Clooney maintained an open tab at Chipotle for everyone to obtain free burritos, Beanie Babies were full of spider eggs finally hatching after many dormant years, comedian Adam Sandler correctly predicted five tragic events, the Supreme Court ruled cops could no longer engage with members of the public in any fashion, Gwyneth Paltrow starved to death after attempting the week-long food stamp challenge, a Texas man underwent a horrifying eye enlargement procedure, and Johnny Depp enrolled in medical school to save a sick child battling cancer.
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