The internet before y2k was nuts. There were no safeguards for anything. Some of my favorites was just the weird game rumors and fake cheats at the time. Since there was no way to really verify stuff. Wild claims of going to professor bills backyard for pikablu or getting into the side grass area of pallet town to catch the starters.

But hear me out. What if they could.

My theory is they’ll treat him like some kind of political deity like Regan. Regan died and they wouldn’t stop talking about him like political Jesus until trump came along. At one point during the rnc convention they wanted to bring a hologram Regan on stage “think like hologram 2pac but Regan” but they thought the hologram would showboat Romney at the time.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2012/08/ronald-reagan-hologram-republic-national-convention