Hollow Knight: Silksong has been a long time in the making, and as the game’s release approaches, the title’s dedicated Subreddit has decided to hold a contest. Silksong, originally intended as a DLC, was announced in 2019 as a full-fledged game sequel starring a secondary character from the beloved Metroidvania, Hollow Knight.
As the game’s initial 2023 release date came and went, its future was thrown into question. Despite the delays and lack of communication from the development studio Team Cherry, the fans have remained strong supporters of both the upcoming game and the indie studio behind it.
Over the years, the Silksong Reddit page has developed its own culture and lingo, with members falling into factions of “doubter” and “beleiver” [sic]. The Reddit page is now taking their fandom a step further by holding a special contest, posted by the moderator kurgow, to crown up to four lucky (or perhaps, unlucky) winners as “Dreamers” to be sacrificed.
Hollow Knight: Silksong Reddit To Select Four “Sacrifices”
Hundreds Of Fans Compete For The Honor Of Banishment
Votes for the contest will be collected on July 2, three days after the start of the contest, and three winners will be selected to be “sacrificed” by the Subreddit. This means that Redditors chosen for the dubious honor of being a Dreamer will be banned from the Reddit page, then “unsealed”—that is, unbanned—when Hollow Knight: Silksong is released.
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A fourth Dreamer named HopOffRedditRn has been pre-selected as the main “Skonger” (aka Silksong-er) to lead the other Dreamers into banishment. This fourth Dreamer will be “the strongest one,” proclaims the contest announcement, since they came up with the idea for this event. Despite the nonsensical nature of the contest (or perhaps because of it), the contest thread already has over 900 comments full of Silksong fans clamoring to be selected as Dreamers.
Conspiracy Theories And Goofiness Abound
It’s been incredible to watch such a strong and ridiculous community rise up together to support a tiny team that created a game that resonated with millions of people in Hollow Knight. Where other game fandoms might fall apart in light of delays and nothing but a few crumbs of news about their beloved upcoming game, the Slksong community seems to thrive in it.
The Redditors are constantly trolling each other with “Silkposts” depicting false news, fake announcements, and doctored social media posts. They’ve analyzed every frame of the scant footage released by Team Cherry, and over-analyzed every cryptic X post made by Hollow Knight co-creator William Pellen. Every day, the nearly 160 thousand members engage in battles of wit and Photoshop, and it’s been an incredibly entertaining experience to watch the chaos unfold.
I’m firmly in the “beleiver” camp, so I fully expect Hollow Knight: Silksong to be released within the next few months. But the joy of having the game finally in my hands will be dampened just a bit by the knowledge that the release of Silksong will mean the end of years of shenanigans and an entire online society that’s formed in the Silksong Subreddit. Until then, dream on, Dreamers.
Source: kurgow/Reddit
Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Released
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2025
- Developer(s)
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Team Cherry
- Publisher(s)
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Team Cherry
- Engine
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Unity
- Franchise
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Hollow Knight
