Watching the Hollow Knight: Silksong community slowly unravel into unbridled chaos over the last seven years has been more entertaining than the game can ever hope to be. The sheer copium on display, as fans desperately try to out-Silkpost each other, has been a fascinating glimpse into the gamer pysche that made even Half-Life fans look tame.
But one Silkpost stands out from all the rest. Four months ago, u/Responsible-Soup7093 shared some cursed fan art of Hornet—snogging the artist—holding up a sign that read 04/09. "Skong release date will be [September 4] guys, trust," they captioned the post. Lo and behold, last week, Team Cherry announced exactly that.
"I know it sounds like I'm flexing but I'm genuinely just shocked," they explained. "I did a Silkpost on the r/silksong subreddit 139 days ago with a funny drawing that I made for a friend. I didn't have enough karma so my post was removed. And now no one will believe me."
Whole lotta monkeys and a whole lotta typewriters—u/Xenomorphian69420.
They also attached a Discord conversation that they had with their friend, supposedly at the time, where they joked that they "had a vision last night" and...
