Hollow Knight: Silksong Released Despite the Numerous Banana Listings

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In September 2025, Hollow Knight: Silksong didn’t just finally release after six years of waiting... it fulfilled a bizarre internet prophecy. On August 31st, 2025, Twitter user @redunderscore_ posted about a dream where they saw a headline reading “Silksong releases despite the numerous Banana Listings.” At first, fans treated it as nonsense, but the post went viral across Twitter and Reddit, with mockups and jokes from gaming leakers joining in.  Then, on September 4th, 2025, Silksong officially launched and the gaming news site Dexerto tweeted the exact same “Banana Listings” headline from the dream. The prophecy had become reality.  Silksong’s release immediately overwhelmed Steam, with millions of wishlists crashing the servers and sparking a flood of memes, fan art, and edits. From “Hornet fighting Steam error monsters” to viral Hydrogen Bomb vs. Coughing Baby memes, the community turned the chaos into art. The surreal “Banana Listings” meme became part of Silksong folklore.  Check out our new MEME STORE: https://thememestore.com/  Subscribe to our channel to learn more about trending memes, hear interviews from meme personalities and more! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbrPqq29C9Q_TQP7OFFRzcw?sub_confirmation=1  #silksong  #memes #HollowKnight

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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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