00:00Someone dreamed about a meme.
00:01Four days later, that exact meme became real.
00:04What are the odds of a random dream tweet manifesting into reality?
00:07But to understand why this matters,
00:08you need to know about the six-year journey that got us here.
00:11Hollow Knight, Silksong was announced in February 2019
00:13as the sequel to one of indie gaming's biggest hits.
00:16But what followed was a masterclass in anticipation culture.
00:19For years, fans developed a ritual around every Nintendo Direct.
00:22Hope for Silksong news, followed by inevitable disappointment.
00:25This cycle became so predictable that fans started posting clown imagery
00:29to represent their foolish hope.
00:30The wait became legendary.
00:31Other indie games started referencing it.
00:33Haiku the Robot included an Easter egg gravestone asking,
00:36Is Silksong out yet?
00:37Gaming publications wrote articles about the delay.
00:39The game's dedicated subreddit grew to over 4,300 subscribers
00:43just discussing a game that didn't exist yet.
00:45By 2025, Silksong had become more than a game.
00:47It was internet folklore, which makes what happened next even wilder.
00:51On August 31st, 2025, Twitter user at Redunderscore underscore
00:55posted about a dream they had.
00:56Not about gameplay, not about the story.
00:58Just a weird news headline reading,
01:00Silksong releases despite the numerous banana listings.
01:02This sounds completely nonsensical, right?
01:04Like the kind of gibberish your brain creates at 3 a.m.
01:07But the battle-hardened Silksong community,
01:09veterans of six years of disappointment, embraced the absurdity.
01:12The original tweet got over 1,000 likes in four days.
01:15At Redunderscore underscore, followed up with a mock-up
01:17of what the tweet would look like from Dick Certo,
01:19which exploded with over 38,000 likes.
01:21Gaming Leaker at Gaming underscore Leaker joined in, posting,
01:24I can confirm that Hollow Knight Silksong will release
01:26despite any banana listings that may appear,
01:28gaining over 2,000 likes.
01:30The meme spread to Reddit's slash r slash ThomasThePlankEngine
01:33with 165 upvotes.
01:34But here's where the universe decided to get weird.
01:37September 4th, 2025 arrived,
01:39the day that would end six years of clowning.
01:41Hollow Knight Silksong finally released.
01:43And the official at Dick Certo Twitter account
01:44recreated the exact tweet from the dream,
01:47posting,
01:47Silksong releases despite the numerous banana listings,
01:50with 27,000 likes and 3,900 reposts in under five hours.
01:54At Redunderscore underscore, quoted it asking,
01:56Dick Certo actually made my dream real?
01:58A literal dream had become reality
01:59on the most significant day in Hollow Knight history.
02:02But the story doesn't end there.
02:04Six years of pent-up demand was about to crash the internet.
02:06The game that had been wishlisted by 5.2 million Steam users
02:10launched that morning
02:10and immediately overwhelmed Steam's servers.
02:12Reddit user u slash dumb dash throwaway
02:14posted to r slash silksong about Steam crashing,
02:17getting over 14,000 upvotes in six hours.
02:19Think about this.
02:20A single indie game,
02:22born from a Kickstarter stretch goal,
02:23had enough hype to crash
02:24one of the world's biggest digital gaming platforms.
02:26The community that had spent years
02:27making clown memes about their hopes
02:29now turned server crashes into art.
02:31Redditor u slash jennervk posted an edit of Hornet,
02:34Silksong's protagonist,
02:35about to fight Steam's colorful error message monsters,
02:38asking,
02:38Struggling with this boss?
02:39Anyone have any tips?
02:40It got 9,900 upvotes in under six hours.
02:44Twitter user at lordbosk
02:45created a hydrogen bomb versus coughing baby meme
02:47showing Silksong overwhelming Steam.
02:49Getting 56,000 likes.
02:51Artist at Salem's 16 drew fan art of Hornet
02:53fighting the Steam era characters,
02:55which gained 67,000 likes
02:56and became known as the first boss.
02:58Even PlayStation servers reportedly had issues.
03:00The release affected multiple platforms simultaneously.
03:02Fans created memes
03:03about finding their Silksong orders
03:05among banana listings,
03:06and Steam's player charts
03:07showed a game called Banana,
03:08competing with major titles.
03:10The banana listing prophecy
03:11seemed even more bizarre
03:12and accurate in retrospect.
03:13back.
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