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[pompompompeii]

oh I have walked in on the funniest fandom thing Ive ever seen on reddit

r/silksong is a discussion turned shitpost sub for Hollow Knight: Silksong, a sequel to Hollow Knight that doesn't exist (yet(?)). my knowledge of Silksong’s development is kinda spotty, Im just here for memes. after 5-ish years, pretty much every post is either sharing edits of Hornet (hypothetical protagonist of the hypothetical game) and making fake teasers and release dates. these all go under the 'silkpost' flair, the sub's dedicated shitposting flair, to show that they are indeed bait and should not be taken seriously. this flair is very important.

other recent events in this sub include a presidential election, and the week where everyone pretended the game came out and posted fake gameplay. there's a lot going on here. the reason for the state of the sub is that Silksong updates from the devs, Team Cherry, are very few and far between. it's hard to have any serious discussion about a game that literally does not exist.

u/E1331 is famous in the sub for constantly making shitposts of varying quality, ranging from edits of the devs announcing releases and cancellations, the aforementioned fake game screenshots, and all the way to fanfiction about the devs losing their fucking minds. this guy's credited with keeping r/silksong alive.

these are all posted under the silkpost flair. everyone on the sub checks flairs before they even read posts due to the amount of fake hype being posted. everyone on the sub knows that these posts are jokes.

however, because it's always fucking something, isn't it, recently u/E1331 went and posted some fake screenshots of the devs shitting on other indie games, of which I only have the deleted post, as part of his usual posting.

some time later, he had to make this post:

no indication that this is a joke.

and the general reaction from the community:

and yea, I get it, those screenshots could've fucked up Team Cherry's reputation if people believed them. google AI is already scraping reddit shitposts to pass off as actual information, and misinformation spreads like wildfire nowadays. apparently google already says that u/E1331 was sued by TC according to a comment I saw. shit's getting weird. I understand why TC would go out of their way to wipe this from the internet when people outside of r/silksong might take the screenshots seriously, with no way to know any better, and slander the company. nobody can really blame them for doing this.

it's just really fucking funny.

also this was u/E1331's last post before the announcement:

[jotasuis]

How I found out about trump getting shot

[thebarrows]

shitpost tma version

almost all of them were drawn in june when i was stressed about college and needed a way to relax, so I started drawing these silly things

shitpost tmagp version

[my-magnus-rabbithole]

Jonah Magnus seemed to receive two types of letters

1. Hello friend I recently experienced something sinister and since you have that funky institute of yours, I thought you’d like to hear it

and

2: NO JONAH WE CAN’T KEEP HOOKING UP, but here have an account of my experience with something horrific, DON’T CONTACT ME AGAIN

[pumpkinhrat]

part 2 here

[qiqilasblog]

Scribled some designs for Jon

Nice put together season 1 Jon and stinky season 4/5 Jon. Which one do you like better?

[syrren]

“The artist becomes the canvas!” - TMAGP 002: Making Adjustments

[remorner]

his mind is in a different place,

will everybody please give him a little bit of space?

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second version just because i didn't know which one was best :,)

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and here are the two without the lyrics

[starrodent]

some guy

[pan0pticonn]

Jared being homophobic is so funny to me like out of all the reasons you could have had to make a mocking comment you choose homophobia and it didn’t work bc they were actually gay

"Whos this then? Your boyfriend?"

"Yes actually"

"Oh" mission failed successfully

[theplagueratt]

Wanted to properly draw Jon

[tiresomespaceplant]

perfectly normal work place comedy (nothing of note happens)

[kittengutss]

Dropped some colour on a Gerry and Michael sketch that’s been sitting around for a few weeks

(Pose reference from Vogue)

[virtualtear00]

Girl who says she's fine

[growingdark]

joodle

[cherrydeprived]

Something something about a ceaseless watcher