I woke up this morning at 7am, pretty groggy. I hadn't had my coffee yet, but while I waited for it to brew, I swiped open Reddit to see what the hubbub of the day was.
"NO FU**ING WAY WE GOT HALF-LIFE BEFORE SKONG," the first post read. Attached was a screenshot of a "Half-Life: White Sands Announcement Trailer". Finally! Has it happened? Is Half-Life 3 real?
There was maybe a split second of excitement, followed by immediate doubt, and then the realisation sank in. Ah, this is the Hollow Knight Silksong subreddit. I didn't even bother to look for the trailer on YouTube to verify that it was fake. The fact that it was posted two days ago and the internet hadn't imploded from Half-Life 3 being confirmed was proof enough.
I DO NOT EVEN FOLLOW THIS SUB PLEASE LEAVE ME ALONE—u/wodzu96.
Get used to it, though. The Hollow Knight subreddit is so fed up waiting for Silksong, and getting bored with its own 'Silkposts', that it's starting to target other copium games with fake announcements.
Just last night, u/BasicallyAlto posted a falsified tweet from Respawn, where it attached a photo of the...
