Twitchplayspokemon. People have figured that the Helix fossil is some kind of God and so check their items frequently to show their appreciation.
I'm as confused as you are.
Chapter 1: Religion, Politics, and the False Prophet
You've got that backwards. Because imputing "start" is the most effective way to slow down progress, trolls would spam "start" into the chat. This caused actions made by other people to be converted to menu navigation, causing the game to attempt to "Use the Helix Fossil". Because this happened so often people started making up stories about how the Helix Fossil was Red's Magic 8 Ball of sorts that he would consult for guidance when he was lost. People then started to question how the Helix Fossil knew all this stuff, well because we need to turn everything into a religion, let's just say he's god, but this conflicted with an earlier religion that started with a pidgey. Considering there was approximately 76,846 people online when Bird Jesus was caught, the fact that they managed to all band together to catch a single pokemon was considered a miracle, a miracle granted by whom? Why the very bird we caught of course. After a while of fighting, the Helixians and Birdlums banded together to form Anarchy, but if Helix is god, and Democracy is evil, then what does that make the Dome Fossil? That's right, and the worst part was he had a henchman working from the inside. Since we needed Surf to advance, we decided to buy a water stone and evolve eevee into vaporeon, but something went wrong, because of to many imputs, they evolved him into a flareon instead! Followed by the most tragic event of all, the release of Charmelion and Rattata (also known as ABBBBBBK ( and JLVWNNOOOO). As you might be able to tell, Democracy was blasphemy to the TPP Community, so they rebelled with what is now known as the start9 revolution. When Democracy mode is active, the act of start9 would cause the game to imput the start command 9 times if start9 was the most voted choice out of a 20 second voting period. The TPP Community was once again split, this time not for religious reasons, but for political opinion, with some believing Anarchy to be the "right" way to play, while Democracy was represented by the Dome Fossil and his False Prophet.
Chapter 2: The Slayer of Trees and DigRat
Earlier I mentioned the release of Rattata thanks to the evil False Prophet, well white JLVWNNOOOO will always remain in our hearts, he was inevitably replaced by a new rattata, DigRat. DigRat was the culprit of TPP having to restart Rock Tunnel multiple times and had been banished to the PC for his crimes, Rocket HQ would be his redemption. After a painful 24 hours we finally made it to the end and beat Team Rocket's Leader, all that was left was to get the Silph Scope, but thanks to a premature dig, DigRat had forced TPP to start from the very beginning after being mere feet from the item. This would not be the first or last time they would face such frustration, as a tree is all it takes to halt progress for a 1/4 of a day. Thanks to the TPP Community's outstanding teamwork, they managed to teach Cut to DUX the Farfetch'd. Thanks to the help of DUX they were finally able to cut down their first tree! After 6 hours.
Chapter 3: Rebirth
Twitch Plays Pokemon is something of a social experiment. We're not sure what hypothesis it's testing, but the data provided thus far will surely prove invaluable to future generations. Or it'll just really confuse alien archaeologists who dig up the remnants of our civilization and think that we worshiped a helix-shaped fossil and believed democracy to be the embodiment of pure evil.