A virtual pet in the shape of a brown blob with large eyes, fed, washed, dressed and put to bed on a phone. The record's entry for the Tamagotchi of the app store era: it was among the most-downloaded games in the world in 2013 despite looking like something drawn in a lesson, and its blob has been a reaction image, a Halloween costume and a running joke ever since.
The record notes that Pou's shape is the subject of a joke that everyone has made and nobody needs the record to repeat.
Someone remembers the app being still on their phone years later and opening it to find Pou hungry, and feeling something they were not prepared for. The record notes the blob has that effect.
A child in 2013 explaining that Pou needed a bath and could not be left, and a parent asking whether it was a game or a responsibility. The record files the answer as both.
Correction: the game is from a single developer in Lebanon and was not a studio product. The record files this because a billion-download blob deserves an accurate byline.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
