Silksong has rapidly outpaced in terms of the amount of copium—a fun little portmanteau of 'cope' and 'opium'—its fanbase has had to generate to keep its heart pumping after six whole years. A , but alas, the fanbase has been once [[link]] again.
While plumbing the depths of this conspiracy theory, however, I stumbled across a YouTube channel called and stared, a little staggered, at its (then) latest video, day 1,462. Surely not, I remember thinking, before having myself a little scroll and realising—with a sinking sort of dread—that the poor sod running it had, indeed, been keeping users informed for almost 1,500 consecutive days.
Araraura (Ara) has been in charge of the channel since January 16, 2021—around 702 days since the game's first reveal back in 2019. Most of the videos are a mere 30 seconds long, however, like a sitcom with special episodes, there are some longer gems scattered throughout it.
To break up the monotony, Ara has constructed some 'special episodes'—when I asked for recommendations, he had several gems to show off amongst the pile of defeated-sounding updates. Videos like day 1,188, with a , or , where he laboriously recounted the 702 days he'd missed before starting the channel.
Still, it's not all been bad: "It's good to know I have so many people supporting me and the channel, and I've met a lot of great folks I call my friends thanks to that." In fact, the whole exercise—maddening as it might be—has left him in a decent spot overall, covering the daily news of one of his favourite games:
"I don't think I would've been able to keep doing this if the game I was covering wasn't Silksong. Hollow Knight is my favorite game after all. Also, the fact that it takes only a few minutes to produce a regular video, having so many people supporting the channel and being able to make decent revenue definitely helps."
Ara also happens to be a repository of Silksong fandom lore, such as "the Great Silksweep of 2023, -Y pattern recognition, EDGE Magazine teaser, the 'Ara is Missing' arc." My favourite of these by far (I mean, besides from the fact our are now cemented in Silksong's canon) is the "-Y pattern recognition" thing, which is about as ridiculous as Ara makes it out to be.
"[That] comes from a series of memes where people drew Hornet holding a cigar, with the [text] 'bait used to be believable' in progressively lower and lower quality until it became only '-Y'. Some people suggested -I but it didn't end up sticking."
Luckily, Ara has not been left to bear this madness alone—specifically shouting out "Dai Locke, Kishan, Tinta, Pupe, Suscat, Axo and the rest of the 17 souls," which sounds like some Elden Ring-tier worldbuilding out of context, [[link]] as he adds: "Y'all are the real ones." Daily Silksong news is now on , in case you want to hear a rather deflated Ara rattle off that there is, in fact, no new Silksong news after last week's debunking. Godspeed, Ara, and may your long labours be over soon.