Team Cherry / YouTube: Daily Silksong NewsA YouTuber who has spent the last four years posting daily updates about Hollow Knight: Silksong can finally rest now that the game has released, after nearly 1,700 consecutive videos.
It finally happened. Over six years on from its initial announcement, Hollow Knight: Silksong, the sequel to Team Cherry’s 2017 hit metroidvania, has arrived, putting an end to the long-running saga.
While the devs were mostly silent throughout this time, fans have been desperately clinging onto any morsel of information for well over half a decade, leading to the creation of many gloriously unhinged sub-reddits and the trend known as “silkposting,” where members would deliberately post fake news.
But one fan took things to a different level by making a YouTube channel focused solely on daily Silksong updates, whether there was anything to report or not. Now, with the game out and crashing storefronts around the world, the channel’s creator is finally calling it a day.
Daily Silksong News waves goodbye as game finally launches
Created by Araraura, the Daily Silksong News page has racked up 236,000 subscribers since posting its first video on January 16, 2021, which was already 702 days after the initial reveal.
From that point on, it dropped a new video every single day like clockwork, usually less than a minute long, explaining that there hadn’t been news in the last 24 hours. Occasionally, when there was something to say, the videos would last a little longer, and sometimes even featured stop motion skits at the beginning.
This lack of information didn’t deter him, though, as the creator told IGN that he hadn’t missed a day in around four and a half years, even if it meant enlisting someone else to narrate the upload.
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However, after 1,693 days of posting, the time has finally come for Araraura to wave goodbye to his channel in what is likely to be the final post.
“We finally made it. 2,393 days of waiting for Silksong, that’s quite a long time,” he said in the video. “I remember watching the original Silksong trailer right as it dropped at work on my phone. Some two years later, I decided to make DSN just for the fun of it, to see how far it would go, and as a distraction from the monotonous wait.”
He went on to say that the project made the wait more “bearable,” and even admitted that if it wasn’t for DSN, he might have “stopped caring about Silksong altogether.”
So, while the journey has come to an end now that the long-awaited game is finally out in the wild, there is a chance it could return for a final outing, as Araraura invited Team Cherry to join him for a video, saying to IGN:
“Team Cherry, if you’re reading this, hit me up on Discord. We will try to make an extra day for you on the channel or something.”
Hollow Knight: Silksong has already been a success, with the sequel’s player count surpassing the original’s in a matter of minutes.